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All up in arms synonyms

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adj up in arms

  • browned off — If you say that you are browned off, you mean that you are annoyed and depressed.
  • fighting — fit to fight: a boxer who's no longer in fighting shape.
  • indignant — feeling, characterized by, or expressing strong displeasure at something considered unjust, offensive, insulting, or base: indignant remarks; an indignant expression on his face.
  • furious — full of fury, violent passion, or rage; extremely angry; enraged: He was furious about the accident.
  • assertory — characterized by or relating to declaration or affirmation
  • hacked — to place (something) on a hack, as for drying or feeding.
  • irate — angry; enraged: an irate customer.
  • ireful — full of intense anger; wrathful.
  • in arms — armed and prepared for war
  • gladiatorial — of or relating to gladiators or to their combats.
  • corybantic — frenzied; agitated; unrestrained.
  • buffaloed — any of several large wild oxen of the family Bovidae. Compare bison, Cape buffalo, water buffalo.
  • incensed — an aromatic gum or other substance producing a sweet odor when burned, used in religious ceremonies, to enhance a mood, etc.
  • militant — vigorously active and aggressive, especially in support of a cause: militant reformers.
  • bent out of shape — very angry, upset, or agitated
  • hopping mad — working energetically; busily engaged: He kept the staff hopping in order to get the report finished.
  • in a huff — indignant
  • hawkish — resembling a hawk, as in appearance or behavior.

adjective up in arms

  • jousting — a combat in which two knights on horseback attempted to unhorse each other with blunted lances.
  • disputative — Tending to dispute.
  • jingoistic — the spirit, policy, or practice of jingoes; bellicose chauvinism.
  • mad — mentally disturbed; deranged; insane; demented.
  • infuriated — to make furious; enrage.
  • wroth — angry; wrathful (usually used predicatively): He was wroth to see the damage to his home.
  • warmongering — the practices and principles of a warmonger.
  • livid — having a discolored, bluish appearance caused by a bruise, congestion of blood vessels, strangulation, etc., as the face, flesh, hands, or nails.

adverb up in arms

  • hostile — of, relating to, or characteristic of an enemy: a hostile nation.
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