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slow burn
noun as in anger
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noun as in fury
noun as in indignation
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noun as in irascibility
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noun as in irascibleness
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- acerbity
- anger
- annoyance
- bad humor
- cantankerousness
- crossness
- dander
- excitability
- fit
- fretfulness
- furor
- fury
- grouchiness
- heat
- hotheadedness
- huffiness
- ill humor
- impatience
- irascibility
- ire
- irritability
- irritation
- low boiling point
- miff
- outburst
- passion
- peevishness
- petulance
- pugnacity
- rage
- resentment
- sensitivity
- short fuse
- snit
- sourness
- spleen
- stew
- sullenness
- surliness
- tantrum
- tartness
- tear
- temperament
- tetchiness
- tiff
- touchiness
- wax
noun as in irateness
noun as in irateness
Weak matches
- acrimony
- animosity
- annoyance
- antagonism
- cat fit
- chagrin
- choler
- conniption
- dander
- disapprobation
- displeasure
- distemper
- enmity
- exasperation
- fury
- gall
- hatred
- hissy fit
- huff
- ill humor
- ill temper
- impatience
- indignation
- infuriation
- irascibility
- ire
- irritability
- irritation
- mad
- miff
- outrage
- passion
- peevishness
- petulance
- pique
- rage
- rankling
- resentment
- soreness
- stew
- storm
- tantrum
- temper
- tiff
- umbrage
- vexation
- violence
noun as in ire
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Weak matches
noun as in pique
noun as in short fuse
Weak matches
- acerbity
- anger
- annoyance
- bad humor
- cantankerousness
- crossness
- dander
- excitability
- fit
- fretfulness
- furor
- fury
- grouchiness
- heat
- hotheadedness
- huffiness
- ill humor
- impatience
- irascibility
- irascibleness
- ire
- irritability
- irritation
- low boiling point
- miff
- outburst
- passion
- peevishness
- petulance
- pugnacity
- rage
- resentment
- sensitivity
- snit
- sourness
- spleen
- stew
- sullenness
- surliness
- tantrum
- tartness
- tear
- temperament
- tetchiness
- tiff
- touchiness
- wax
noun as in temper
Strong matches
noun as in tetchiness
Strong matches
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Example Sentences
But the real drama would develop during long slow burn that came next.
Alex Edwards, Founder of Natural High, agrees with this slow-burn philosophy.
The Americans has given us both a chilly pleasure and a slow burn in the proximity of its antagonists.
Quincy described his show as a “slow burn” with a “nice, melancholy sweetness to it like Charlie Brown.”
There are “not a lot of Rwandas, but a lot of slow-burn horrific conflicts,” she said.
The blows were weak, for I was still dazed; but they served, together with the slow burn of my anger, greatly to steady me.
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On this page you'll find 550 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to slow burn, such as: acrimony, animosity, annoyance, antagonism, displeasure, and enmity.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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