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.

Related Words

narking

  • affronting
  • aggravating
  • agitating
  • angering
  • annoying
  • antagonizing
  • badgering
  • baiting
  • ballyragging
  • bothering
  • bugging
  • bullyragging
  • chafing
  • deviling
  • devilling
  • discomforting
  • discomposing
  • disquieting
  • distressing
  • eating
  • enflaming
  • enraging
  • exasperating
  • exercising
  • fretting
  • frosting
  • galling
  • getting
  • getting to
  • grating
  • griping
  • hagriding
  • harassing
  • harrying
  • hassling
  • heckling
  • incensing
  • inflaming
  • infuriating
  • insulting
  • irking
  • irritating
  • itching
  • maddening
  • miffing
  • nagging
  • nettling
  • offending
  • outraging
  • peeving
  • persecuting
  • perturbing
  • pestering
  • piquing
  • plaguing
  • provoking
  • putting out
  • rankling
  • rasping
  • riling
  • roiling
  • rousing
  • rubbing the wrong way
  • ruffling
  • spiting
  • teasing
  • undoing
  • unhinging
  • unsettling
  • upsetting
  • vexing
  • wearing on
  • worrying

saturnine

  • black
  • bleak
  • blue
  • cheerless
  • chill
  • cimmerian
  • cloudy
  • cold
  • colorless
  • comfortless
  • dark
  • darkening
  • dejected
  • depressed
  • depressing
  • depressive
  • desolate
  • desperate
  • despondent
  • dim
  • dire
  • discomfiting
  • disconsolate
  • discouraging
  • disheartening
  • dismal
  • dismaying
  • dispirited
  • dispiriting
  • distressful
  • distressing
  • dour
  • down
  • down in the dumps
  • drab
  • drear
  • dreary
  • dreich
  • droopy
  • dull
  • elegiac
  • elegiacal
  • forlorn
  • funereal
  • gloomy
  • glum
  • godforsaken
  • grave
  • gray
  • grey
  • grim
  • hangdog
  • hopeless
  • in low spirits
  • in the dumps
  • inconsolable
  • lamentable
  • lonely
  • lonesome
  • louring
  • loury
  • low
  • lowering
  • lowery
  • lugubrious
  • melancholic
  • melancholy
  • menacing
  • mirthless
  • miserable
  • moping
  • morbid
  • morose
  • mournful
  • murky
  • negative
  • oppressive
  • pessimistic
  • plaintive
  • plutonian
  • sad
  • sepulchral
  • solemn
  • somber
  • sombre
  • sorrowful
  • sulky
  • sullen
  • sunless
  • tenebrific
  • tenebrous
  • threatening
  • unhappy
  • upsetting
  • woebegone
  • woeful
  • wretched

backing

  • abetment
  • abetting
  • accompaniment
  • adherence
  • adopting
  • advancement
  • advancing
  • advice
  • advising
  • advocacy
  • advocating
  • aegis
  • affirming
  • aid
  • aiding
  • assist
  • assistance
  • assisting
  • assuagement
  • attendance
  • attending
  • attention
  • auspice
  • auspices
  • avouching
  • backstopping
  • bailing out
  • bankrolling
  • bearing a hand
  • benefaction
  • beneficence
  • benefiting
  • benefitting
  • bolstering
  • boost
  • boosting
  • buttressing
  • care
  • championing
  • championship
  • charity
  • comforting
  • confirming
  • corroborating
  • counsel
  • counseling
  • counselling
  • delivering
  • easing
  • egis
  • emboldening
  • embracing
  • encouragement
  • encouraging
  • endorsement
  • endorsing
  • endowment
  • espousing
  • establishing
  • facilitating
  • facilitation
  • favor
  • favoring
  • financing
  • forwarding
  • fosterage
  • fostering
  • funding
  • funds
  • furtherance
  • furthering
  • going in for
  • going to bat for
  • grant
  • guidance
  • guiding
  • hand
  • hand-holding
  • heartening
  • help
  • helping
  • helping hand
  • holding a brief for
  • indorsing
  • kindness
  • launching
  • leg up
  • lift
  • mentoring
  • nurturance
  • nurturing
  • obliging
  • palliation
  • patronage
  • patronizing
  • philanthropy
  • plugging
  • preaching
  • profiting
  • promoting
  • promotion
  • proving
  • reenforcing
  • reinforcement
  • reinforcing
  • relief
  • rescuing
  • sanction
  • saving
  • seconding
  • secondment
  • service
  • serving
  • sponsoring
  • sponsorship
  • standing one in good stead
  • standing up for
  • sticking up for
  • subsidy
  • substantiating
  • succor
  • succoring
  • support
  • supporting
  • sustaining
  • talking up
  • validating
  • verifying

jibing

  • according
  • according to
  • acrid
  • agnate
  • agreeing
  • akin
  • alert
  • aligning
  • alike
  • alining
  • allied
  • allying
  • analogous
  • answering
  • approximating
  • approximative
  • arrogant
  • backbiting
  • biting
  • bitter
  • burlesque
  • carbon-copy
  • caustic
  • chaffing
  • checking
  • chording
  • clever
  • close
  • coextensive
  • cognate
  • cohering
  • coinciding
  • commensurate
  • comparable
  • compatible
  • comporting
  • conforming
  • congeneric
  • congenerous
  • consistent
  • consisting
  • consonant
  • contemptuous
  • contradictory
  • corresponding
  • critical
  • cutting
  • cynical
  • defiant
  • derisive
  • disparaging
  • double
  • double-edged
  • dovetailing
  • equal
  • equaling
  • equalling
  • equivalent
  • exaggerated
  • falling in with
  • fitting
  • going
  • harmonizing
  • homologous
  • identical
  • implausible
  • in the manner of
  • incisive
  • incongruous
  • ironical
  • keen
  • lining up
  • matching
  • mocking
  • mordant
  • much the same
  • near
  • not far from
  • not unlike
  • on the order of
  • paradoxical
  • parallel
  • paralleling
  • pungent
  • quick-witted
  • registering
  • related
  • relating
  • resembling
  • rhyming
  • ridiculous
  • riming
  • same
  • sardonic
  • satiric
  • satirical
  • scathing
  • scoffing
  • selfsame
  • sharp
  • sneering
  • sorting
  • spicy
  • squaring
  • such
  • tallying
  • trenchant
  • twin
  • twisted
  • uncomplimentary
  • undifferentiated
  • unexpected
  • uniform
  • witty
  • wry

dampening

  • abating
  • alleviating
  • bathing
  • bedewing
  • benumbing
  • black
  • bleak
  • blunting
  • burning out
  • castrating
  • cauterizing
  • damping
  • daunting
  • deadening
  • debilitating
  • decreasing
  • dehydrating
  • demoralizing
  • depressing
  • depressive
  • desiccating
  • deterring
  • devitalizing
  • diminishing
  • dipping
  • disadvantageous
  • disappointing
  • discouraging
  • disheartening
  • dismal
  • dismaying
  • dispiriting
  • dissuading
  • doing in
  • dousing
  • dowsing
  • draining
  • dreary
  • drenching
  • dulling
  • dunking
  • dwindling
  • easing
  • enervating
  • enfeebling
  • exhausting
  • fatiguing
  • flushing
  • gelding
  • gloomy
  • hindering
  • humidifying
  • immerging
  • immersing
  • impregnating
  • inopportune
  • irrigating
  • laving
  • lessening
  • lightening
  • lobotomizing
  • lowering
  • moderating
  • moistening
  • muffling
  • muting
  • numbing
  • off-putting
  • oppressive
  • petrifying
  • receding
  • reducing
  • refreshing
  • rehydrating
  • remoistening
  • repressing
  • rinsing
  • sapping
  • saturating
  • sluicing
  • soaking
  • sousing
  • steeping
  • subduing
  • subsiding
  • undermining
  • unfavorable
  • unpropitious
  • waning
  • washing
  • watering
  • weakening
  • wearing
  • wearing out
  • wetting

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