rage

[ reyj ]

noun

1. angry fury; violent anger (sometimes used in combination):

   a speech full of rage;

   incidents of road rage.

   Synonyms: madness, ire, passion, frenzy, wrath

   Antonyms: calm

2. a fit of violent anger:

   Her rages usually don't last too long.

3. fury or violence of wind, waves, fire, disease, etc.

   Synonyms: turbulence

4. violence of feeling, desire, or appetite:

   the rage of thirst.

5. a violent desire or passion.
6. ardor; fervor; enthusiasm:

   poetic rage.

   Synonyms: eagerness, vehemence

7. the object of widespread enthusiasm, as for being popular or fashionable:

   Raccoon coats were the rage on campus.

   Synonyms: craze, fashion, fad, vogue

8. Archaic. insanity.

verb (used without object)

, raged, rag·ing.

1. to act or speak with fury; show or feel violent anger; fulminate.

   Synonyms: storm, fume, rave

2. to move, rush, dash, or surge furiously.

   Synonyms: storm, fume, rave

3. to proceed, continue, or prevail with great violence:

   The battle raged ten days.

4. (of feelings, opinions, etc.) to hold sway with unabated violence.

rage

/ reɪdʒ /

noun

1. intense anger; fury
2. violent movement or action, esp of the sea, wind, etc
3. great intensity of hunger, sexual desire, or other feelings
4. aggressive behaviour associated with a specified environment or activity

   road rage

   school rage

5. a fashion or craze (esp in the phrase all the rage )
6. informal.
   a dance or party

verb

1. to feel or exhibit intense anger
2. (esp of storms, fires, etc) to move or surge with great violence
3. (esp of a disease or epidemic) to spread rapidly and uncontrollably
4. informal.
   to have a good time

Other Words From

• rageful adjective
• raging·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of rage¹

First recorded in 1250–1300; (for the noun) Middle English, from Old French, from Late Latin rabia, Latin rabiēs “madness” ( rabies ( def ) ), derivative of rabere “to be mad, rave”; verb derivative of the noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of rage¹

C13: via Old French from Latin rabiēs madness

Idioms and Phrases

Idioms

1. all the rage, widely popular or in style.

More idioms and phrases containing rage

see all the rage .

Synonym Study

See anger.

Example Sentences

I read ur timeline & I see what ur doing & your rage is thinly veiled pain.

From Washington Post

We’ve learned that rage spreads faster online than joy and outrage is contagious.

From Time

When there’s a group where everybody’s mad and everybody’s in a rage and they want to burn everything, you can see it, you can sense it.

From Washington Post

Movie theaters were closed but that only pushed the streaming rage further into the forefront of the entertainment ecosystem.

From Washington Blade

That rage, fueled by the sorrow and frustration caused by inequality, is no less dangerous today than it was in 1843 — but maybe, channeled into words, it will be just as productive of positive change.

From Washington Post

The rage that Marvin has embodied, a man on the edge of eruption, is always a badly wounded man.

From The Daily Beast

Now Jena Malone is 30, and with roles in Inherent Vice, The Hunger Games, and a massive superhero film, all the rage.

From The Daily Beast

Yes, these days, Nazism is all the rage in the land formerly known as Siam.

From The Daily Beast

This was all the rage among Bible scholars in the nineteenth century.

From The Daily Beast

The song is about rage and fury and passion, and I had a lot of pain that I wanted to release.

From The Daily Beast

Let him that escapeth be consumed by the rage of the fire: and let them perish that oppress thy people.

From Project Gutenberg

But in her first rage Mrs. Charmington had been weak enough to let out that the prince had called young Mrs. Haggard "lovely."

From Project Gutenberg

And the finger he pointed at the girl quivered with the rage that filled him at this trick they had thought to put upon him.

From Project Gutenberg

A terrific yell of rage burst from every one, and each hastily threw something or other at the bold intruder.

From Project Gutenberg

I kept a stiff backbone for a while, but presently a futile rage against circumstances bubbled up and boiled over.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

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• erupt
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