rage

Meaning

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) Violent uncontrolled anger.
2. (countable, uncountable) A current fashion or fad.
3. (Australia, New-Zealand, US, countable, slang, uncountable) An exciting and boisterous party.
4. (countable, uncountable) A subgenre of trap music originating in the United States in the 2020s, characterized by 808s and aggressive, distorted synths.
5. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) Any vehement passion.

Verb

1. (intransitive) To act or speak in heightened anger.
2. (figuratively, sometimes) To move with great violence, as a storm etc.
3. (Australia, New-Zealand, US, slang) To party hard; to have a good time.
4. (obsolete, rare) To enrage.

Synonyms

anger

💢

fury

wrath

storm

rampage

be furious

passion

indignation

frenzy

ire

rave

furor

irate

flare up

roar

be angry

seethe

craze

outrage

be wrathful

furiousness

bluster

resentment

temper

ramp

violence

prevail

hatred

madness

be offended

malice

get angry

fad

violent

exasperation

blow up

blow

furore

rabidness

bellow

choler

be indignant

angry

😠

madden

mischief

resent

heat

huff

angriness

ferocity

Translations

rabbia

💢

rabia

😡

Wut

😡

fureur

colère

💢

collera

rage

😡

wüten

😡

Zorn

💢

furia

cólera

💢

furie

furore

toben

😡

woede

💢

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɹeɪd͡ʒ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: rage

Inherited from Middle English: ragen

In summary

From Middle English rage, from Anglo-Norman rage, from Late Latin rabia, from Classical Latin rabiēs (“anger, fury”). Doublet of rabies.
Displaced native Middle English wode, from Old English wōd ("madness, fury, rage"; compare Modern dialectal English wood (“mad, insane, furious, raging”)); and Middle English hotherte (“anger”), from Old English hātheort (“fury, anger, wrath, rage”).