OUTRAGE
Dictionary entry overview: What does outrage mean?
• OUTRAGE (noun)
The noun OUTRAGE has 4 senses:
1. a feeling of righteous anger
2. a wantonly cruel act
3. a disgraceful event
4. the act of scandalizing
Familiarity information: OUTRAGE used as a noun is uncommon.
• OUTRAGE (verb)
The verb OUTRAGE has 3 senses:
1. strike with disgust or revulsion
2. violate the sacred character of a place or language
3. force (someone) to have sex against their will
Familiarity information: OUTRAGE used as a verb is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• OUTRAGE (noun)
Meaning:
A feeling of righteous anger
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
Synonyms:
indignation; outrage
Hypernyms ("outrage" is a kind of...):
anger; choler; ire (a strong emotion; a feeling that is oriented toward some real or supposed grievance)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "outrage"):
dudgeon; high dudgeon (a feeling of intense indignation (now used only in the phrase 'in high dudgeon'))
Meaning:
A wantonly cruel act
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("outrage" is a kind of...):
atrocity; inhumanity (an act of atrocious cruelty)
Meaning:
A disgraceful event
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural events
Synonyms:
scandal; outrage
Hypernyms ("outrage" is a kind of...):
trouble (an event causing distress or pain)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "outrage"):
skeleton; skeleton in the closet; skeleton in the cupboard (a scandal that is kept secret)
Teapot Dome; Teapot Dome scandal (a government scandal involving a former United States Navy oil reserve in Wyoming that was secretly leased to a private oil company in 1921; became symbolic of the scandals of the Harding administration)
Watergate; Watergate scandal (a political scandal involving abuse of power and bribery and obstruction of justice; led to the resignation of Richard Nixon in 1974)
Meaning:
The act of scandalizing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
scandalisation; scandalization; outrage
Hypernyms ("outrage" is a kind of...):
affront; insult (a deliberately offensive act or something producing the effect of deliberate disrespect)
• OUTRAGE (verb)
Meaning:
Strike with disgust or revulsion
Classified under:
Verbs of feeling
Synonyms:
scandalize; scandalise; outrage; appall; appal; shock; offend
Context example:
The scandalous behavior of this married woman shocked her friends
Hypernyms (to "outrage" is one way to...):
churn up; disgust; nauseate; revolt; sicken (cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Sentence examples:
The bad news will outrage him
The performance is likely to outrage Sue
Meaning:
Violate the sacred character of a place or language
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Synonyms:
desecrate; outrage; profane; violate
Context examples:
desecrate a cemetery / violate the sanctity of the church / profane the name of God
Hypernyms (to "outrage" is one way to...):
assail; assault; attack; set on (attack someone physically or emotionally)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Force (someone) to have sex against their will
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Synonyms:
ravish; rape; assault; dishonor; dishonour; outrage; violate
Context example:
The woman was raped on her way home at night
Hypernyms (to "outrage" is one way to...):
assail; assault; attack; set on (attack someone physically or emotionally)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "outrage"):
gang-rape (rape (someone) successively with several attackers)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
