raging

The word “raging” has 2 syllables: rag-ing

It's pronounced as /ˈreɪdʒɪŋ/


What is synonym and antonym for raging?

In the thesaurus, “raging” has 86 synonyms and 38 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for raging along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for raging

  • acute
  • agitating
  • agonizing
  • angry
  • at boiling point
  • bent
  • bent out of shape
  • beside oneself
  • biting
  • blowing a gasket
  • blowing up
  • blustering
  • blustery
  • boiling
  • boiling mad
  • boiling over
  • bristling
  • burning
  • carrying on
  • chafing
  • convulsing
  • cutting
  • enflaming
  • enraged
  • excruciating
  • exquisite
  • extreme
  • fierce
  • fit to be tied
  • foaming
  • frenzied
  • fretting
  • fulminating
  • fuming
  • furious
  • going ape
  • harrowing
  • incensed
  • inflaming
  • infuriated
  • intense
  • irate
  • mad as a hornet
  • making a scene
  • penetrating
  • piercing
  • rabid
  • racking
  • rampaging
  • rankling
  • ranting
  • ranting and raving
  • raving
  • raving mad
  • roiling
  • rough
  • running amok
  • running amuck
  • seeing red
  • seething
  • shaking
  • sharp
  • shooting
  • sizzling
  • smarting
  • smoldering
  • smouldering
  • stabbing
  • steaming
  • stewing
  • stinging
  • storming
  • stormy
  • taking on
  • tearing
  • tempestuous
  • throwing a fit
  • tingling
  • tormenting
  • torturing
  • torturous
  • turbulent
  • vehement
  • violent
  • wild
  • wrenching

Antonyms for raging

  • allaying
  • appeasing
  • calm
  • calming
  • checking
  • collecting
  • composing
  • containing
  • cooling
  • curbing
  • delighted
  • easing
  • giddy
  • gleeful
  • happy
  • hushing
  • letting up
  • mild
  • moderate
  • moderating
  • pacifying
  • pocketing
  • quelling
  • quieting
  • reining
  • relaxing
  • repressing
  • restraining
  • settling
  • smothering
  • soothing
  • stifling
  • stilling
  • strangling
  • subduing
  • suppressing
  • swallowing
  • tempering

Meanings of raging

  • verb
    1. To act or speak in heightened anger.
    2. (sometimes figurative) To move with great violence, as a storm etc.
    3. To enrage.
  • noun
    1. A display of rage.
  • adjective
    1. Volatile, very active or unpredictable.
    2. (of a person) In a state of rage; in a state of extreme, often uncontrollable, anger.

Example Sentences

  • The raging river flooded its banks, engulfing nearby homes and roads.
  • Amidst the raging storm, the sailors struggled to keep the ship afloat.
  • Her raging fever prompted her to seek immediate medical attention.
  • The raging debate over the issue divided the community into opposing factions.
  • He felt a raging sense of injustice at the unfair treatment he had received.

On this page you'll find 124 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to raging, such as: acute, agitating, agonizing, allaying, angry, appeasing, at boiling point.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

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hacked

  • abided
  • abode
  • absorbed
  • accepted
  • acquiesced
  • addressed
  • afraid
  • aghast
  • all in
  • allowed
  • antsy
  • apprehensive
  • basket case
  • beat
  • bent
  • bent out of shape
  • beside oneself
  • bided
  • bleary
  • bode
  • boiling
  • bore
  • brooked
  • brought off
  • browned off
  • buffaloed
  • bugged
  • bummed out
  • burned out
  • burned up
  • butterflies
  • came to grips with
  • capitulated
  • careful
  • carried off
  • carried out
  • choked
  • clutched
  • commanded
  • concerned
  • controlled
  • corybantic
  • countenanced
  • crazed
  • dead
  • dead tired
  • demented
  • depleted
  • desperate
  • directed
  • disquieted
  • distressed
  • disturbed
  • dogged
  • dragging
  • dreading
  • effete
  • endured
  • engineered
  • enraged
  • exasperated
  • far-gone
  • fearful
  • fidgety
  • fielded
  • fierce
  • finessed
  • fit to be tied
  • foaming at the mouth
  • frantic
  • frenetic
  • frenzied
  • fretful
  • fuming
  • furious
  • got off
  • guided
  • had a grip on
  • handled
  • hopping mad
  • hot and bothered
  • huffy
  • hyper
  • in a state
  • in a tizzy
  • in a towering rage
  • in suspense
  • incensed
  • indignant
  • infuriated
  • insane
  • irate
  • ireful
  • irrational
  • jittery
  • jockeyed
  • jumpy
  • lived with
  • livid
  • mad
  • maddened
  • managed
  • maneuvered
  • maniac
  • manipulated
  • met
  • micromanaged
  • miffed
  • negotiated
  • nervous
  • nervy
  • overwrought
  • peeved
  • permitted
  • played
  • pocketed
  • pooped
  • pulled
  • rabid
  • rage
  • raging
  • ran
  • regulated
  • respected
  • restless
  • riled
  • rousted
  • rubbed the wrong way
  • run
  • scared
  • shaking
  • shaky
  • shivery
  • shook-up
  • shot to pieces
  • smoking
  • solicitous
  • spent
  • spooked
  • steamed
  • steamed up
  • steered
  • stomached
  • stood
  • stood for
  • strung-out
  • stuck out
  • suffered
  • supported
  • sustained
  • swallowed
  • sweat out
  • sweated out
  • sweating bullets
  • swung
  • taut
  • tolerated
  • took
  • toughed it out
  • treated
  • troubled
  • uneasy
  • unglued
  • unquiet
  • unreasonable
  • up in arms
  • uptight
  • vehement
  • vicious
  • violent
  • washed-out
  • watchful
  • weary
  • went
  • wiped-out
  • wired
  • wore
  • worn-out
  • worried sick
  • wrathful
  • wreck

mad

  • aberrant
  • absurd
  • acrid
  • acrimonious
  • acrimoniousness
  • acrimony
  • affront
  • aggravate
  • aggravated
  • aggravation
  • agitated
  • air rage
  • airheaded
  • amok
  • amuck
  • anger
  • angered
  • angriness
  • angry
  • animosity
  • annoy
  • annoyance
  • annoyed
  • antagonism
  • antagonistic
  • antagonize
  • antipathetic
  • antipathy
  • antisocial
  • ape
  • apoplectic
  • ardent
  • argumentative
  • around the bend
  • asinine
  • avid
  • ballistic
  • balmy
  • bananas
  • barmy
  • bats
  • batty
  • bearish
  • bedlam
  • belligerence
  • belligerent
  • bent out of shape
  • berserk
  • bile
  • bilious
  • biliousness
  • birdbrained
  • birse
  • bitter
  • bitterness
  • blowup
  • blue in the face
  • boiling
  • bonkers
  • boobish
  • brain-dead
  • brainless
  • brainsick
  • bristling
  • bristly
  • bubbleheaded
  • buffoonish
  • bughouse
  • burning
  • cantankerous
  • certifiable
  • chafe
  • cheesed off
  • choler
  • choleric
  • chowderheaded
  • chuckleheaded
  • churlish
  • clownish
  • clueless
  • cockeyed
  • cold
  • concentrated
  • contempt
  • contentious
  • contentiousness
  • contrariness
  • contrary
  • cool
  • crabby
  • crackbrained
  • cracked
  • crackers
  • crackpot
  • crankiness
  • cranky
  • crazed
  • crazy
  • cross
  • cuckoo
  • daffy
  • daft
  • dander
  • delirious
  • delirium
  • delusional
  • delusionary
  • demented
  • dense
  • depressed
  • deranged
  • devoted
  • dim
  • dim-witted
  • dippy
  • disagreeable
  • disapproving
  • disordered
  • disputatious
  • disputatiousness
  • distant
  • distracted
  • distraught
  • disturbed
  • doltish
  • dopey
  • dopy
  • dorky
  • dotty
  • dudgeon
  • dull
  • dumb
  • dunderheaded
  • dyspeptic
  • eccentric
  • embitter
  • embittered
  • embitterment
  • empoisonment
  • empty-headed
  • enamoured
  • enflame
  • enflamed
  • enmity
  • enrage
  • enraged
  • enthused
  • envenom
  • envy
  • exasperate
  • exasperated
  • exasperation
  • excessive
  • exorbitant
  • extravagant
  • extreme
  • fallacious
  • fanatical
  • farcical
  • fatuous
  • featherheaded
  • feebleminded
  • ferocious
  • feverish
  • fey
  • fierce
  • fit to be tied
  • fixated
  • flare
  • flare-up
  • foaming
  • fond
  • fool
  • foolhardy
  • foolish
  • frantic
  • frenetic
  • frenzied
  • fretful
  • frigid
  • fruity
  • fuming
  • furious
  • furor
  • fury
  • fussy
  • gaga
  • get
  • going crook
  • gormless
  • grouchy
  • grudge
  • grumpy
  • half-baked
  • half-witted
  • harebrained
  • haywire
  • heat
  • high-pressured
  • hooked
  • hopping
  • hopping mad
  • horn-mad
  • hostility
  • hot
  • hot under the collar
  • hot-headedness
  • huff
  • huffy
  • hysteric
  • hysterical
  • icy
  • idiotic
  • idiotical
  • ill-advised
  • ill-humored
  • ill-tempered
  • illogical
  • imbecile
  • imbecilic
  • immoderate
  • impassioned
  • impractical
  • imprudent
  • in a fume
  • in a huff
  • in a pet
  • incense
  • incensed
  • indignant
  • indignation
  • inept
  • infatuated
  • inflame
  • inflamed
  • inflammable
  • infuriate
  • infuriated
  • inimical
  • inordinate
  • insane
  • intense
  • intensive
  • invalid
  • irascibility
  • irascible
  • irascibleness
  • irate
  • irateness
  • ire
  • ireful
  • irrational
  • irritability
  • irritable
  • irritate
  • irritated
  • irritation
  • jaundice
  • jealousy
  • jerky
  • keen
  • knuckleheaded
  • kookie
  • kooky
  • lamebrain
  • lamebrained
  • laughable
  • lavish
  • livid
  • lividity
  • lividness
  • loco
  • looney
  • looney tunes
  • loony
  • loony tunes
  • loopy
  • ludicrous
  • lunatic
  • lunkheaded
  • madden
  • madness
  • malevolence
  • malevolent
  • malice
  • maniac
  • maniacal
  • mental
  • meshuga
  • meshugah
  • meshuggah
  • meshugge
  • miff
  • mindless
  • monomaniac
  • monomaniacal
  • mood
  • moonstruck
  • moronic
  • nettle
  • neurotic
  • non compos mentis
  • nonrational
  • nonsensical
  • notional
  • nuclear
  • nuts
  • nutty
  • oafish
  • obsessed
  • obsessive-compulsive
  • obtuse
  • odd
  • oddball
  • of unsound mind
  • off
  • offend
  • opaque
  • orneriness
  • ornery
  • out to lunch
  • outburst
  • outrage
  • outraged
  • overmuch
  • overweening
  • paranoiac
  • paranoic
  • paranoid
  • paranoidal
  • passion
  • passionate
  • peeve
  • peevish
  • perturbed
  • pet
  • petulant
  • pinheaded
  • pique
  • piqued
  • pixilated
  • pixillated
  • potty
  • preposterous
  • provoke
  • psycho
  • psychotic
  • pugnacious
  • pugnaciousness
  • pugnacity
  • put out
  • quarrelsome
  • quarrelsomeness
  • queer
  • querulous
  • querulousness
  • quick-tempered
  • rabid
  • rage
  • raging
  • rancor
  • rancorous
  • rankle
  • rankled
  • ranting
  • raving
  • reckless
  • resentful
  • resentment
  • ridiculous
  • rile
  • riled
  • riley
  • rise
  • risky
  • road rage
  • roil
  • roiled
  • rub the wrong way
  • ruffle
  • sappy
  • scatty
  • schizoid
  • schizophrenic
  • screwball
  • screwy
  • seeing red
  • seething
  • senseless
  • shirty
  • silly
  • simple
  • simpleminded
  • sizzling
  • slow
  • slow burn
  • slow-witted
  • smoldering
  • smouldering
  • snappish
  • sociopathic
  • soft
  • softheaded
  • sore
  • sorehead
  • soreheaded
  • spite
  • spiteful
  • spleen
  • steam up
  • steamed up
  • steaming
  • stormy
  • strange
  • stupid
  • sulky
  • surd
  • teched
  • teed off
  • temper
  • testy
  • tetched
  • thick
  • thickheaded
  • thoughtless
  • tick off
  • ticked
  • tomfool
  • touched
  • touchy
  • unbalanced
  • unconscionable
  • unconsidered
  • undue
  • unfriendly
  • unhinged
  • unintelligent
  • unpleasant
  • unreasonable
  • unreasoned
  • unreasoning
  • unsafe
  • unsound
  • unstable
  • unwise
  • vacuous
  • vehement
  • vengeful
  • vengefulness
  • venom
  • very upset
  • vex
  • vexation
  • vindictive
  • vindictiveness
  • violent
  • virulence
  • virulent
  • vitriol
  • vitriolic
  • wacko
  • wacky
  • warmth
  • weak
  • weak-minded
  • whacko
  • whacky
  • wigged-out
  • wild
  • witless
  • worked up
  • wrath
  • wrathful
  • wrathfulness
  • wroth
  • wud
  • zany
  • zealous

maddened

  • affronted
  • aggravated
  • agitated
  • angered
  • annoyed
  • antagonized
  • ape
  • aroused
  • baked
  • bananas
  • bent
  • bent out of shape
  • berserk
  • beside oneself
  • bitter
  • blazing
  • bloodthirsty
  • boiling
  • bothered
  • browned off
  • brutal
  • buffaloed
  • bugged
  • bummed out
  • burned up
  • carried away
  • chafed
  • choleric
  • coercive
  • confused
  • convulsed
  • convulsive
  • corybantic
  • cracked
  • crazed
  • crazy
  • cross
  • crossed
  • cruel
  • delirious
  • demented
  • demoniac
  • deranged
  • desperate
  • disarranged
  • discomposed
  • disconcerted
  • disordered
  • displaced
  • displeased
  • disquieted
  • distracted
  • distraught
  • disturbed
  • dogged
  • dotty
  • embittered
  • emotional
  • enflamed
  • enraged
  • envenomed
  • exasperated
  • ferocious
  • fierce
  • fiery
  • fighting mad
  • fit to be tied
  • flipped
  • flipped-out
  • foaming at the mouth
  • forceful
  • forcible
  • frantic
  • frenetic
  • frenzied
  • fried
  • fuming
  • furious
  • galled
  • got
  • great
  • hacked
  • hateful
  • headstrong
  • heated
  • homicidal
  • hopping mad
  • hot
  • hot and bothered
  • hotheaded
  • huffed
  • huffy
  • hysterical
  • ill-tempered
  • impassioned
  • impetuous
  • in a fit
  • in a tizzy
  • in a towering rage
  • incensed
  • indignant
  • inflamed
  • infuriated
  • insane
  • intemperate
  • irascible
  • irate
  • ired
  • ireful
  • irrational
  • irrepressible
  • irritable
  • irritated
  • livid
  • loco
  • locoed
  • lunatic
  • mad
  • madded
  • maniac
  • maniacal
  • miffed
  • mighty
  • murderous
  • nervous
  • nettled
  • neurotic
  • nuts
  • offended
  • outraged
  • overwrought
  • panic-stricken
  • passionate
  • peed
  • peeved
  • peeved off
  • perplexed
  • perturbed
  • piqued
  • pissed
  • pissed off
  • possessed
  • potent
  • powerful
  • provoked
  • put out
  • rabid
  • rage
  • raging
  • rampant
  • rankled
  • raving
  • resentful
  • riled
  • riotous
  • roiled
  • rough
  • rousted
  • rubbed the wrong way
  • ruffled
  • savage
  • seething
  • smoking
  • sore
  • spasmodic
  • splenetic
  • steamed
  • steamed up
  • steaming
  • storming
  • strong
  • sulky
  • sullen
  • teed off
  • tempestuous
  • ticked off
  • turbulent
  • unbalanced
  • uncontrollable
  • uncontrolled
  • unglued
  • ungovernable
  • unhinged
  • unnerved
  • unreasonable
  • unrestrained
  • unscrewed
  • unsettled
  • unsound
  • unstrung
  • unzipped
  • up in arms
  • uproarious
  • upset
  • uptight
  • urgent
  • vehement
  • vexed
  • vext
  • vicious
  • violent
  • whacko
  • wild
  • worked-up
  • wrathful

madding

  • affronting
  • aggravating
  • agitated
  • angering
  • angry
  • annoying
  • antagonizing
  • berserk
  • beside oneself
  • corybantic
  • crazy
  • crossing
  • delirious
  • deranged
  • distraught
  • embittering
  • enflaming
  • enraging
  • envenoming
  • exasperating
  • excited
  • flipped-out
  • frantic
  • fraught
  • freaked-out
  • frenetic
  • frenzied
  • furious
  • getting
  • hectic
  • hot and bothered
  • hot under the collar
  • huffing
  • hyper
  • hysterical
  • in a stew
  • in a tizzy
  • incensing
  • inflaming
  • infuriating
  • insane
  • iring
  • irritating
  • mad
  • maddening
  • miffing
  • nettling
  • offending
  • out of control
  • outraging
  • overwrought
  • panic-stricken
  • peeving
  • piquing
  • provoking
  • putting out
  • rabid
  • raging
  • rankling
  • raving
  • riling
  • roiling
  • rubbing the wrong way
  • ruffling
  • shook-up
  • steaming up
  • ticking off
  • unglued
  • unscrewed
  • unzipped
  • vexing
  • violent
  • weird
  • weirded out
  • wigged out
  • wild
  • wired
  • worked-up
  • zonkers

rabid

  • acrid
  • acrimonious
  • aggravated
  • aggressive
  • agitated
  • angered
  • angry
  • annoyed
  • antagonistic
  • antipathetic
  • antisocial
  • apoplectic
  • argumentative
  • assertive
  • ballistic
  • bang-bang
  • barbarous
  • bearish
  • bellicose
  • belligerent
  • bent out of shape
  • berserk
  • bigoted
  • bilious
  • bitten
  • bitter
  • blood-and-guts
  • blue in the face
  • boiling
  • bristling
  • bristly
  • brutal
  • burning
  • cantankerous
  • cataclysmal
  • cataclysmic
  • cheesed off
  • choleric
  • churlish
  • cold
  • combative
  • combustible
  • concentrated
  • contentious
  • contrary
  • convulsive
  • cool
  • corybantic
  • crabby
  • cranky
  • crazed
  • crazy
  • cross
  • cyclonic
  • delirious
  • demented
  • deranged
  • destructive
  • disagreeable
  • disapproving
  • disputatious
  • distant
  • dyspeptic
  • embittered
  • enflamed
  • enraged
  • enthusiastic
  • exasperated
  • excessive
  • exorbitant
  • explosive
  • extravagant
  • extreme
  • extremist
  • fanatic
  • fanatical
  • ferocious
  • fervent
  • feverish
  • fierce
  • fit to be tied
  • flipped
  • foaming
  • foaming at the mouth
  • frantic
  • freaked-out
  • frenetic
  • frenzied
  • fretful
  • frigid
  • fuming
  • furious
  • fussy
  • gladiatorial
  • going crook
  • grouchy
  • grumpy
  • hammer-and-tongs
  • high-pressured
  • hog-wild
  • hopping
  • hopping mad
  • horn-mad
  • hostile
  • hot
  • hot under the collar
  • huffy
  • icy
  • ill-humored
  • ill-tempered
  • immoderate
  • in a fume
  • in a huff
  • in a pet
  • incensed
  • indignant
  • inflamed
  • inflammable
  • infuriate
  • infuriated
  • inimical
  • inordinate
  • insane
  • intemperate
  • intense
  • intensive
  • intolerant
  • irascible
  • irate
  • ireful
  • irrational
  • irritable
  • keen
  • knock-down-and-drag-out
  • lavish
  • livid
  • lunatic
  • mad
  • mad-dog
  • malevolent
  • maniac
  • maniacal
  • narrow-minded
  • nutty
  • obsessed
  • ornery
  • outraged
  • overboard
  • overmuch
  • overweening
  • paroxysmal
  • passionate
  • peevish
  • perturbed
  • petulant
  • piqued
  • poisoned
  • pugnacious
  • put out
  • quarrelsome
  • querulous
  • quick-tempered
  • radical
  • raging
  • rancorous
  • rankled
  • ranting
  • raving
  • reactionary
  • resentful
  • revolutionary
  • revolutionist
  • riled
  • riley
  • roiled
  • rough
  • ruinous
  • savage
  • seething
  • shirty
  • sick
  • sizzling
  • smoking
  • smoldering
  • smouldering
  • snappish
  • sore
  • sorehead
  • soreheaded
  • spiteful
  • steamed up
  • steaming
  • stormy
  • subversive
  • sulky
  • teed off
  • tempestuous
  • testy
  • ticked
  • touchy
  • truculent
  • tumultuous
  • turbulent
  • ultra
  • ultraist
  • unconscionable
  • undue
  • unfriendly
  • unpleasant
  • vehement
  • vengeful
  • vicious
  • vindictive
  • violent
  • virulent
  • vitriolic
  • volatile
  • volcanic
  • wild
  • worked up
  • wrathful
  • wroth
  • zealous

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