rage
/ɹeɪd͡ʒ/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.11 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An exciting and boisterous party.
Australian usage; New Zealand usage; American usage; Countable; Slang; Uncountable
noun
A subgenre of trap music originating in the United States in the 2020s, characterized by 808s and aggressive, distorted synths.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Heav'n has no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn'd, / Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman ſcorn'd."
- "They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too."
- "[…] rage is not only impotent by definition, it is the mode in which impotence becomes active in its last stage of final despair."
- "Those who subscribe to those “zombie ideas” are “suffering from ressentiment – a witches’ brew of resentment, bitterness, and rage that is causing them to hold mistaken values,” Andreessen wrote. “We believe we must help them find their way out of their self-imposed labyrinth of pain.”"
- "Miniskirts were all the rage back then."
- "But the rage of travelling is a symptom of a deeper unsoundness affecting the whole intellectual action."
Etymology
Etymology tree Latin rabiō Proto-Italic *-jēs Latin -iēs Classical Latin rabiēs Late Latin rabia Anglo-Norman ragebor. Middle English rage English rage From Middle English rage, from Anglo-Norman rage, from Late Latin rabia, from Classical Latin rabiēs (“anger, fury”). Doublet of rabies. Displaced native Middle English wode, from Old English wōd ("madness, fury, rage"; compare Modern dialectal English wood (“mad, insane, furious, raging”)); and Middle English hotherte (“anger”), from Old English hātheort (“fury, anger, wrath, rage”).
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Wiktionary places this term in Music.
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Phrases
air rage
all the rage
black rage defense
blind rage
computer rage
day of rage
desk rage
fly into a rage