Word Meanings - FLARE-UP - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A sudden burst of anger or passion; an angry dispute.

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• BURSTEN
  p. p. of Burst, v. i.
• BURST
  berstan (pers. sing. berste, imp. sing. bærst, imp. pl. burston, p.p. borsten); akin to D. bersten, G. bersten, OHG. brestan, OS. brestan, 1. To fly apart or in pieces; of break open; to yield to force or pressure, especially to a sudden
• PASSIONAL
  Of or pertaining to passion or the passions; exciting, influenced by, or ministering to, the passions. -- n.
• DISPUTE
  To contend in argument; to argue against something maintained, upheld, or claimed, by another; to discuss; to reason; to debate; to altercate; to wrangle. (more info) from L. disputare, disputatum; dis- + putare to clean; hence, fig.,
• BURSTER
  One that bursts.
• PASSIONLESS
  Void of passion; without anger or emotion; not easily excited; calm. "Self-contained and passionless." Tennyson.
• SUDDEN
  soudain, L. subitaneus, fr. subitus sudden, that has come unexpectedly, p.p. of subire to come on, to steal upon; sub under, 1. Happening without previous notice or with very brief notice; coming unexpectedly, or without the common preparation;
• SUDDENTY
  Suddenness; a sudden. On a suddenty, on a sudden. Sir W. Scott.
• DISPUTER
  One who disputes, or who is given to disputes; a controvertist. Where is the disputer of this world 1 Cor. i. 20.
• PASSIONATE
  1. Capable or susceptible of passion, or of different passions; easily moved, excited or agitated; specifically, easily moved to anger; irascible; quick-tempered; as, a passionate nature. Homer's Achilles is haughty and passionate. Prior.
• ANGERLY
  Angrily. Why, how now, Hecate! you look angerly. Shak.
• PASSIONARY
  A book in which are described the sufferings of saints and martyrs. T. Warton.
• PASSIONTIDE
  The last fortnight of Lent.
• ANGER
  affliction, sorrow; akin to Dan. anger regret, Swed. ånger regret, AS. ange oppressed, sad, L. angor a strangling, anguish, angere to strangle, Gr. amhas pain, and to. anguish, anxious, quinsy, and perh. awe, ugly. The word seems to have orig.
• ANGRY
  1. Troublesome; vexatious; rigorous. God had provided a severe and angry education to chastise the forwardness of a young spirit. Jer. Taylor. 2. Inflamed and painful, as a sore. 3. Touched with anger; under the emotion of anger; feeling
• DISPUTELESS
  Admitting no dispute; incontrovertible. Bailey.
• PASSIONATELY
  1. In a passionate manner; with strong feeling; ardently. Sorrow expresses itself . . . loudly and passionately. South. 2. Angrily; irascibly. Locke.
• PASSIONATENESS
  The state or quality of being passionate.
• PASSION
  1. A suffering or enduring of imposed or inflicted pain; any suffering or distress ; specifically, the suffering of Christ between the time of the last supper and his death, esp. in the garden upon the cross. "The passions of this time." Wyclif
• BURSTWORT
  A plant supposed to be valuable for the cure of hernia or rupture.
• ON-HANGER
  A hanger-on.
• COMPASSIONATELY
  In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon.
• DERANGER
  One who deranges.
• WANGER
  A pillow for the cheek; a pillow. His bright helm was his wanger. Chaucer.
• DOUBLEGANGER
  An apparition or double of a living person; a doppelgänger. Either you are Hereward, or you are his doubleganger. C. Kingsley.
• SUNBURST
  A burst of sunlight.
• GRANGER
  1. A farm steward. 2. A member of a grange.
• ESTRANGER
  One who estranges.
• OUTPASSION
  To exceed in passion.
• INCOMPASSIONATE
  Not compassionate; void of pity or of tenderness; remorseless. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ly, adv. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ness, n.
• CLOUD-BURST
  A sudden copious rainfall, as the whole cloud had been precipitated at once.
• TANGERINE
  A kind of orange, much like the mandarin, but of deeper color and higher flavor. It is said to have been produced in America from the mandarin.
• BOULANGERITE
  A mineral of a bluish gray color and metallic luster, usually in plumose masses, also compact. It is sulphide of antimony and lead.
• GANGER
  One who oversees a gang of workmen. Mayhew.
• IMPASSIONABLE
  Excitable; susceptible of strong emotion.
• HANGER
  1. One who hangs, or causes to be hanged; a hangman. 2. That by which a thing is suspended. Especially: A strap hung to the girdle, by which a dagger or sword is suspended. A part that suspends a journal box in which shafting runs. See Illust.
• IMPASSIONATE
  Strongly affected. Smart.