umbrage
/ˈʌm.bɹɪd͡ʒ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.34 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Antipathy in one nation against another disposes each more readily to offer insult and injury, to lay hold of slight causes of umbrage, and to be haughty and intractable when accidental or trifling occasions of dispute occur."
- "—He took umbrage at something or other, that muchinjured but on the whole eventempered person declared, I let slip."
- "She looked very neurotic, moving in a jerky way, her body giving little twitches of habitual umbrage."
- "If she knew [a psychiatrist was] observing her son with a view to finding out if he was foggy between the ears, there would be umbrage on her part, or even dudgeon."
- "When the call is over, Cooper thanks her — for leashing the dog, but for also endangering him, for living down to herself, for quite a performance of umbrage."
- "The president [Mr. Nixon] took umbrage at [The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour's] jokes about him and an unpopular war."
Etymology
From Middle French ombrage (“umbrage”), from Old French ombrage, from Latin umbrāticus (“in the shade”), from umbra (“shadow, shade”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: ombrage, umbrāticus