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Umbrage vs Outrage - What's the difference?

umbrage | outrage | Related terms |

Umbrage is a related term of outrage.


As a noun umbrage

is feeling of anger or annoyance caused by something offensive.

As a verb umbrage

is to displease or cause offense.

umbrage

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Feeling of anger or annoyance caused by something offensive.
  • * , Episode 16
  • --He took umbrage at something or other, that muchinjured but on the whole eventempered person declared, I let slip.
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year=1960 , author= , title=(Jeeves in the Offing) , section=chapter VI , passage=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.}}
  • Feeling of doubt.
  • Leaves that provide shade, as the foliage of trees
  • (obsolete) shadow, shade
  • * 1602 , , act V scene 1
  • [...] but in the verity of extolment I take him to be a soul of great article and his infusion of such dearth and rareness as, to make true diction of him, his semblable in his mirror, and who else would trace him, his umbrage , nothing more.

    Synonyms

    * (feeling of anger or annoyance) annoyance, displeasure, odium, offense, resentment, huff, miff, peeve, pique * (feeling of doubt) suspicion

    Derived terms

    * take umbrage * umbrageous

    Verb

    (umbrag)
  • To displease or cause offense.
  • To shade.
  • outrage

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An excessively violent or vicious attack; an atrocity.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1905, author=
  • , title= , chapter=1 citation , passage=“There the cause of death was soon ascertained?; the victim of this daring outrage had been stabbed to death from ear to ear with a long, sharp instrument, in shape like an antique stiletto, which […] was subsequently found under the cushions of the hansom. […]”}}
  • An offensive, immoral or indecent act.
  • The resentful anger aroused by such acts.
  • (obsolete) A destructive rampage.
  • "by the outrage and fury of the river " (from an old description of flood damage).

    Verb

    (outrag)
  • To cause or commit an outrage upon; to treat with violence or abuse.
  • * Atterbury
  • Base and insolent minds outrage men when they have hope of doing it without a return.
  • * Broome
  • This interview outrages all decency.
  • (archaic) To violate; to rape (a female).
  • (obsolete) To rage in excess of.
  • (Young)