English Synonyms and Antonyms. James Champlin Fernald

      Prepositions:

      To amplify on or upon the subject is needless. Amplify this matter by illustrations.

ANALOGY.

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      Synonyms:

affinity,	likeness,	relation,	similarity,
coincidence,	parity,	resemblance,	simile,
comparison,	proportion,	semblance,	similitude.

      Analogy is specifically a resemblance of relations; a resemblance[44] that may be reasoned from, so that from the likeness in certain respects we may infer that other and perhaps deeper relations exist. Affinity is a mutual attraction with or without seeming likeness; as, the affinity of iron for oxygen. Coincidence is complete agreement in some one or more respects; there may be a coincidence in time of most dissimilar events. Parity of reasoning is said of an argument equally conclusive on subjects not strictly analogous. Similitude is a rhetorical comparison of one thing to another with which it has some points in common. Resemblance and similarity are external or superficial, and may involve no deeper relation; as, the resemblance of a cloud to a distant mountain. Compare ALLEGORY.

      Antonyms:

disagreement,

disproportion,

dissimilarity,

incongruity,

unlikeness.

      Prepositions:

      The analogy between (or of) nature and revelation; the analogy of sound to light; a family has some analogy with (or to) a state.

ANGER.

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      Synonyms:

animosity,	fury,	offense,	rage,
choler,	impatience,	passion,	resentment,
displeasure,	indignation,	peevishness,	temper,
exasperation,	ire,	pettishness,	vexation,
fretfulness,	irritation,	petulance,	wrath.

      Displeasure is the mildest and most general word. Choler and ire, now rare except in poetic or highly rhetorical language, denote a still, and the latter a persistent, anger. Temper used alone in the sense of anger is colloquial, tho we may correctly say a hot temper, a fiery temper, etc. Passion, tho a word of far wider application, may, in the singular, be employed to denote anger; "did put me in a towering passion," Shakespeare Hamlet act v, sc. 2. Anger is violent and vindictive emotion, which is sharp, sudden, and, like all violent passions, necessarily brief. Resentment (a feeling back or feeling over again) is persistent, the bitter brooding over injuries. Exasperation, a roughening, is a hot, superficial intensity of anger, demanding instant expression. Rage drives one beyond the bounds of prudence or discretion; fury is stronger yet, and sweeps one away into uncontrollable violence. Anger is personal and usually selfish, aroused by real or supposed wrong to oneself, and directed specifically and intensely against the person who is viewed as blameworthy. Indignation is impersonal and unselfish displeasure at unworthy acts (L. indigna), i.e.,[45] at wrong as wrong. Pure indignation is not followed by regret, and needs no repentance; it is also more self-controlled than anger. Anger is commonly a sin; indignation is often a duty. Wrath is deep and perhaps vengeful displeasure, as when the people of Nazareth were "filled with wrath" at the plain words of Jesus (Luke iv, 28); it may, however, simply express the culmination of righteous indignation without malice in a pure being; as, the wrath of God. Impatience, fretfulness, irritation, peevishness, pettishness, petulance, and vexation express the slighter forms of anger. Irritation, petulance, and vexation are temporary and for immediate cause. Fretfulness, pettishness, and peevishness are chronic states finding in any petty matter an occasion for their exercise. Compare ACRIMONY; ENMITY; HATRED.

      Antonyms:

amiability,	gentleness,	long-suffering,	patience,	peacefulness,
charity,	leniency,	love,	peace,	self-control,
forbearance,	lenity,	mildness,	peaceableness,	self-restraint.

      Prepositions:

      Anger at the insult prompted the reply. Anger toward the offender exaggerates the offense.

ANIMAL.

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      Synonyms:

beast,	fauna,	living organism,	sentient being.
brute,	living creature,

      An animal is a sentient being, distinct from inanimate matter and from vegetable life on the one side and from mental and spiritual existence on the other. Thus man is properly classified as an animal.