rage Meaning & Definition

Synonyms of Rage

Antonyms of Rage

Rage in a Sentence

Miniskirts were all the rage back then.

was all the rage

found her at home in a rage of scrubbing and cleaning in preparation for the rabbi's visit

boiling with rage at the waiter's insult, he demanded to see the manager

there was time when playing with Frisbees was all the rage

the king's last years were spent in a lonely rage

the series of bad calls prompted the coach to rage about the refereeing

still raging about his assistant's burnt pies, the pastry cook forgot to add the egg whites to his cake batter

Word Forms & Grammar

rage

rages

raged

rag·ing

raging

rage (countable and uncountable, plural rages)

rage (third-person singular simple present rages, present participle raging, simple past and past participle raged)

Words That Rhyme With Rage

Origin of Rage

Origin 1: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Late Latin rabia, from Latin rabies rage, madness, from rabere to be mad; akin to Sanskrit rabhas violence

Origin 2: From Middle English rage, from Anglo-Norman rage, from Late Latin rabia, from Classical Latin rabiēs (“anger, fury”). Doublet of rabies.

Origin 3: 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”).

Origin 4: From Middle English ragen, from Old French rager, ragier, from the noun (see above).

Origin 5: Displaced native Middle English weden (“to rage with anger”), from Old English wēdan (“to rage”), and Old English iersian, among other synonyms.

First Known Use

14th century