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Anger vs Peeve - What's the difference?

anger | peeve |

As nouns the difference between anger and peeve

is that anger is a strong feeling of displeasure, hostility or antagonism towards someone or something, usually combined with an urge to harm while peeve is an annoyance or grievance.

As verbs the difference between anger and peeve

is that anger is to cause such a feeling of antagonism while peeve is to annoy; vex.

anger

English

(wikipedia anger)

Noun

  • A strong feeling of displeasure, hostility or antagonism towards someone or something, usually combined with an urge to harm.
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  • , volume=189, issue=3, page=21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Our banks are out of control , passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […].  Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. When a series of bank failures made this impossible, there was widespread anger , leading to the public humiliation of symbolic figures.}}
  • (obsolete) Pain or stinging.
  • * {{quote-book, 1660, , 3= Mensa mystica, page=322, year_published=1717
  • , passage=It heals the Wounds that Sin hath made; and takes away the Anger of the Sore;
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  • I made the experiment, setting the moxa where the greatest anger and soreness still continued.

    Synonyms

    * (strong feeling of antagonism) * See also

    Derived terms

    () * angerful * angerless * angry * anger management * in anger

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cause such a feeling of antagonism.
  • Don't anger me.
  • To become angry.
  • You anger too easily.

    Synonyms

    * (to cause anger) enrage, infuriate; annoy, vex, grill, displease; aggravate, irritate * (to become angry) get angry (see angry for more)

    References

    * * Notes:

    Anagrams

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    peeve

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An annoyance or grievance.
  • Verb

    (peev)
  • To annoy; vex.
  • He was peeved to note that his work had been undone.

    See also

    * pet peeve