Rage

Quick meaning: Rage is a noun meaning Violent uncontrolled anger.

Meaning

Violent uncontrolled anger.

More Meanings

1. A current fashion or fad.
2. (music) A subgenre of trap music originating in the United States in the 2020s, characterized by 808s and aggressive, distorted synths.
3. (intransitive) To act or speak in heightened anger.
4. (sometimes figurative) To move with great violence, as a storm etc.
5. (slang, US, Australia, New Zealand) An exciting and boisterous party.
6. (obsolete) Any vehement passion.
7. (slang, US, Australia, New Zealand) To party hard; to have a good time.

Example Sentences

Miniskirts were all the rage back then.

Heav'n has no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn'd, / Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman ſcorn'd.

But the rage of travelling is a symptom of a deeper unsoundness affecting the whole intellectual action.

[…] rage is not only impotent by definition, it is the mode in which impotence becomes active in its last stage of final despair.

Word Forms

• rages
• raging
• raged

Synonyms for rage

Depending on context, synonyms include fury, ire, apoplexy, fume, frenzy, rampage.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include fury, furor, furore, madness, craze, passion.

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