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#900. Resentment. -- N. resentment

• displeasure

• animosity

• anger

• wrath

• indignation

• exasperation

• bitter resentment

• wrathful indignation

• pique

• umbrage

• huff

• miff

• soreness

• dudgeon

• acerbity

• virulence

• bitterness

• acrimony

• asperity

• spleen

• gall

• heart-burning

• heart-

• swelling

• rankling

• ill humor

• bad humor

• ill temper

• bad temper

• irascibility

• ill blood

• revenge

• excitement

• irritation

• warmth

• bile

• choler

• ire

• fume

• pucker

• dander

• ferment

• ebullition

• towering passion

• angry mood

• taking

• pet

• tiff

• passion

• fit

• tantrums

• burst

• explosion

• paroxysm

• storm

• rage

• fury

• desperation

• violence

• fire and fury

• vials of wrath

• gnashing of teeth

• hot blood

• high

• words

• scowl

• sulks

• [Cause of umbrage] affront

• provocation

• offense

• indignity

• (insult) 9

• grudge

• crow to pluck

• bone to pick

• sore subject

• casus

• belli[Lat]

• ill turn

• outrage

• Furies

• Eumenides

• buffet

• slap in the face

• box on the ear

• rap on the knuckles

• V. resent

• take amiss

• take ill

• take to heart

• take offense

• take

• umbrage

• take huff

• take exception

• take in ill part

• take in bad part

• take in dudgeon

• breathe revenge

• cut up

• rough

• fly into a rage

• fall into a rage

• get into a rage

• fly into a

• passion

• bridle up

• bristle up

• froth up

• fire up

• flare up

• open the vials

• of one's wrath

• pour out the vials of one's wrath

• pout

• knit the brow

• frown

• scowl

• lower

• snarl

• growl

• gnarl

• gnash

• snap

• redden

• color

• look black

• look black as thunder

• look daggers

• bite

• one's thumb

• show one's teeth

• grind one's teeth

• champ the bit

• champ at

• the bit

• chafe

• mantle

• fume

• kindle

• fly out

• take fire

• boil

• boil over

• boil

• with indignation

• boil with rage

• rage

• storm

• foam

• vent one's rage

• vent

• one's spleen

• lose one's temper

• stand on one's hind legs

• stamp the foot

• stamp with rage

• quiver with rage

• swell with rage

• foam with rage

• burst

• with anger

• raise Cain

• have a fling at

• bear malice

• cause anger

• raise anger

• affront

• offend

• give offense

• give

• umbrage

• anger

• hurt the feelings

• insult

• discompose

• fret

• ruffle

• nettle

• huff

• pique

• excite

• irritate

• stir the blood

• stir up

• bile

• sting

• sting to the quick

• rile

• provoke

• chafe

• wound

• incense

• inflame

• enrage

• aggravate

• add fuel to the flame

• fan into a flame

• widen

• the breach

• envenom

• embitter

• exasperate

• infuriate

• kindle wrath

• stick

• in one's gizzard

• rankle &e. 9

• hit on the raw

• rub on the raw

• sting on

• the raw

• strike on the raw

• put out of countenance

• put out of humor

• put one's monkey up

• put

• one's back up

• raise one's gorge

• raise one's dander

• raise one's choler;

• work up into a passion

• make one's blood boil

• make the ears tingle

• throw

• into a ferment

• madden

• drive one mad

• lash into fury

• lash into madness;

• fool to the top of one's bent

• set by the ears

• bring a hornet's nest about one's ears

• Adj. angry

• wrath

• irate

• ireful

• wrathful

• cross

• sulky

• bitter

• virulent

• acrimonious

• (discourteous)

• violent

• warm

• burning

• boiling

• boiling over

• fuming

• raging

• foaming

• foaming

• at the mouth

• convulsed with rage

• offended

• waxy

• acharne

• wrought

• worked up

• indignant

• hurt

• sore

• set against

• fierce

• wild

• furious

• mad with rage

• fiery

• infuriate

• rabid

• savage

• relentless

• flushed with anger

• flushed with rage

• in a huff

• in a stew

• in a

• fume

• in a pucker

• in a passion

• in a rage

• in a fury

• in a taking

• in a

• way

• on one's high ropes

• up in arms

• in high dudgeon

• Adv. angrily

• in the height of passion

• in the heat of

• passion

• in the heat of the moment

• Int. tantaene animis coelestibus irae [Lat][Vergil]! marry come up!

• zounds! 'sdeath!

• Phr. one's blood being up

• one's back being up

• one's monkey being up;

• fervens difficili bile jecur[Lat]

• the gorge rising

• eyes flashing fire;

• the blood rising

• the blood boiling

• haeret lateri lethalis arundo

• [Lat][Vergil]

• "beware the fury of a patient man" [Dryden]

• furor arma

• ministrat [Lat][Vergil]

• ira furor brevis est [Lat][Horace]

• quem Jupiter

• vult perdere dementat prius[Lat]

• "What

• drunk with choler?" [Henry IV]

#901. Irascibility. -- N. irascibility

• irascibleness

• temper;

• crossness

• susceptibility

• procacity

• petulance

• irritability

• tartness

• acerbity

• protervity

• pugnacity

• excitability

• bad temper

• fiery temper

• crooked temper

• irritable

• genus irritabile[Lat]

• hot blood

• ill humor

• asperity

• churlishness

• (discourtesy) 895

• huff

• a word and a blow

• Sir Fretful Plagiary

• Tartar

• shrew

• vixen

• virago

• termagant

• dragon

• scold

• Xantippe

• porcupine

• spitfire

• fire eater

• (blusterer) 8

• fury

• V. be irascible

• have a temper

• have a devil in one;

• fire up

• Adj. irascible

• bad-tempered

• ill-tempered

• irritable

• susceptible;

• excitable

• thin-skinned

• fretful

• fidgety

• on

• the fret

• hasty

• overhasty

• quick

• warm

• hot

• testy

• touchy

• tetchy

• like touchwood

• like tinder

• huffy

• pettish

• petulant

• waspish

• snappish

• peppery

• fiery

• passionate

• choleric

• shrewish

• "sudden and

• quick in quarrel" [As You Like It]

• querulous

• captious

• quarrelsome

• contentious

• disputatious

• pugnacious

• cantankerous

• restiff

• churlish

• (discourteous) 895

• cross

• cross as crabs

• cross as two sticks

• cross as a cat

• cross as a

• dog

• cross as the tongs

• fractious

• peevish

• in a bad temper

• sulky

• angry

• vindictive

• Int. pish!

• quamvis tegatur proditur

• vultu furor [Lat][Seneca]

• vino tortus et ira [Lat][Horace]

#901a. Sullenness. -- N. sullenness

• spleen;

• churlishness

• irascibility

• moodiness

• perversity

• obstinacy

• torvity|

• crabbedness

• ill temper

• bad temper

• ill humor

• bad humor

• sulks

• dudgeon

• dumps

• doldrums

• fit of the sulks

• black looks

• scowl

• grouch

• huff

• V. be sullen

• sulk

• frown

• scowl

• lower

• glower

• pout

• have a hangdog look

• Adj. sullen

• sulky

• ill-tempered

• ill-humored

• ill-affected

• ill-

• disposed

• in an ill temper

• in a bad temper

• in a

• shocking temper

• in an ill humor

• in a bad humor

• in a shocking humor

• out

• of temper

• out of humor

• crusty

• crabbed;

• sour

• sour as a crab

• surly

• moody

• splenetic

• cankered

• cross

• perverse

• wayward

• restive

• cantankerous

• intractable

• deaf to reason

• unaccommodating

• rusty

• froward

• cussed

• [U. S.]

• dogged

• grumpy

• glum

• grim

• morose

• frumpish

• in the sulks

• out of sorts

• scowling

• glowering

• growling

• grouchy

• peevish

#902. [Expression of affection or love.] Endearment. -- N. endearment

• caress

• blandishment

• blandiment|

• _panchement

• fondling

• billing and

• cooing

• dalliance

• necking

• petting

• sporting

• sparking

• hanky-panky;

• caressing

• embrace

• salute

• kiss

• buss

• smack

• osculation

• deosculation|

• amorous

• glances

• courtship

• wooing

• suit

• addresses

• the soft impeachment

• lovemaking;

• serenading

• caterwauling

• flirting

• flirtation

• gallantry

• coquetry

• true lover's knot

• plighted love

• love tale

• love token

• love letter;

• billet-doux

• valentine

• honeymoon

• V. caress

• fondle

• pet

• dandle

• pat

• pat on the head

• pat on the

• cheek

• chuck under the chin

• smile upon

• coax

• wheedle

• cosset

• coddle

• cocker

• cockle

• make of

• make much of

• cherish

• foster

• kill with kindness

• clasp

• hug

• cuddle

• fold in one's arms

• strain in one's arms

• nestle

• nuzzle

• embrace

• kiss

• buss

• smack

• blow a kiss

• salute

• fold to the heart

• press to the bosom

• bill and coo

• spoon

• toy

• dally

• flirt

• coquet

• gallivant

• galavant;

• philander

• make love

• pay one's court to

• pay one's addresses to

• pay one's

• attentions to

• serenade

• court

• woo

• set one's cap at

• be sweet upon

• look

• sweet upon

• ogle

• cast sheep's eyes upon

• fall in love with

• win the affections

• die for

• propose

• make an offer

• have an offer

• pop the question

• plight one's

• troth

• plight one's faith

• Adj. caressing

• "sighing like furnace" [Shakespeare]

• love-

• sick

• spoony

• caressed

• Phr. "faint heart neer won fair lady"

• "kisses honeyed by oblivion"

• [G. Eliot]

#903. Marriage. -- N. marriage

• matrimony

• wedlock

• union

• intermarriage

• miscegenation

• the bonds of marriage

• vinculum

• matrimonii[Lat]

• nuptial tie

• married state

• coverture

• bed

• cohabitation

• match

• betrothment

• wedding

• nuptials

• Hymen

• bridal

• espousals

• spousals

• leading to the altar

• nuptial

• benediction

• sealing

• torch of Hymen

• temple of Hymen

• hymeneal altar

• honeymoon

• bridesmaid

• best man

• bride

• bridegroom. married man

• married woman

• married couple

• Benedict

• partner

• spouse

• mate

• husband

• man

• consort

• baron

• old man

• good

• man

• wife of one's bosom

• helpmate

• rib

• better half

• gray mare

• old woman

• old lady

• good wife

• goodwife

• squaw

• lady

• matron

• matronage

• man and wife

• wedded pair

• Darby and Joan

• spiritual

• wife

• monogamy

• bigamy

• polygamy

• mormonism

• spiritual

• Turk

• unlawful marriage

• left-handed marriage

• morganatic marriage

• ill-

• assorted marriage

• mesalliance

• marriage broker

• matrimonial agency

• matrimonial agent

• matrimonial

• bureau

• matchmaker

• schatchen[Ger]

• V. marry

• wive

• take to oneself a wife

• be married

• be spliced

• go

• off

• pair off

• wed

• espouse

• get hitched[U.S. slang]

• lead to the hymeneal

• altar

• take "for better for worse"

• give one's hand to

• bestow one's hand

• upon

• marry

• join

• couple

• tie the nuptial

• knot

• give away

• give away in marriage

• seal

• ally

• affiance

• betroth

• (promise) 76

• publish the banns

• bid the banns

• be asked in church

• Adj. married

• one

• one bone and one flesh. marriageable

• nubile

• engaged

• betrothed

• affianced

• matrimonial

• marital

• conjugal

• connubial

• wedded

• nuptial

• hymeneal

• spousal

• bridal

• Phr. the gray mare the better horse

• "a world-without-end bargain"

• [Love's Labor's Lost]

• "marriages are made in Heaven" [Tennyson]

• "render

• me worthy of this noble wife" [Julius Caesar]

• si qua voles apte nubere

• nube pari [Lat][Ovid]

#904. Celibacy. -- N. celibacy

• singleness

• single blessedness;

• bachelorhood

• misogyny

• virginity

• maidenhood

• maidenhead

• unmarried man

• bachelor

• Coelebs

• old bachelor;

• misogynist

• monogamist

• monk

• unmarried woman

• spinster

• maid

• maiden;virgin

• old

• maid

• bachelor girl

• girl-bachelor

• nun

• V. live single

• live alone

• Adj. unmarried

• unwed

• wifeless

• single

#905. Divorce. -- N. divorce

• divorcement

• separation

• judicial

• separation

• separate maintenance

• separatio a mensa et thoro[Lat]

• separatio a vinculo matrimonii [Lat]

• trial separation

• breakup

• annulment

• widowhood

• weeds

• widow

• widower

• relict

• dowager

• divorcee

• cuckold

• grass widow

• grass

• widower

• merry widow

• V. live separate

• separate

• divorce

• put away

• wear

• the horns

• 2. DIFFUSIVE SYMPATHETIC AFFECTIONS