Umbrage

Definition: Umbrage

Umbrage

Noun

1. A feeling of anger caused by being offended; "he took offence at my question".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "umbrage" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Etymology: Umbrage \Um"brage\, noun. [French expression ombrage shade, suspicion, umbrage, from Latin expression umbraticus belonging to shade, from umbra shade. Compare to Umber, Umbratic.]. (Websters 1913)

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Umbrage

Enmity

Verb: be inimical; Adjective: keep at arm's length, hold at arm's length; be at loggerheads; bear malice; fall out; take umbrage; harden the heart, alienate, estrange.

Hate

Umbrage, pique, grudge; dudgeon, spleen bitterness, bitterness of feeling; ill blood, bad blood; acrimony; malice; implacability; (revenge).

Resentment

Verb: resent; take amiss, take ill, take to heart, take offense, take umbrage, take huff, take exception; take in ill part, take in bad part, take in dudgeon; ne pas entendre raillerie; breathe revenge, cut up rough.

Pique, umbrage, huff, miff, soreness, dudgeon, acerbity, virulence, bitterness, acrimony, asperity, spleen, gall; heart-burning, heart-swelling; rankling.

Cause anger, raise anger; affront, offend; give offense, give umbrage; anger; hurt the feelings; insult, discompose, fret, ruffle, nettle, huff, pique; excite; irritate, stir the blood, stir up bile; sting, sting to the quick; rile, provoke, chafe, wound, incense, inflame, enrage, aggravate, add fuel to the flame, fan into a flame, widen the breach, envenom, embitter, exasperate, infuriate, kindle wrath; stick in one's gizzard; rankle &e.; hit on the raw, rub on the raw, sting on the raw, strike on the raw.

Crosswords: Umbrage

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "umbrage": give umbrage ♦ take umbrage ♦ take umbrage at. Additional references.

Beginning with "umbrage": umbrage-taking.

Albanian

lëndim (displeasure, grieved, hurt, lesion, touchiness, wound), fyerje (affront, contumely, displeasure, flout, grievance, indignity, injury, insult, offence, opprobrium, resentment, vituperation). (various references)

Arabic 

‏إمتعاض (resentment), ‏إهانة (affront, crinkle, degradation, despite, dishonor, dishonour, flout, indignity, injury, insolence, insult, mortification, offence, reflection, reflexion, slap, slur, tawdriness), ‏إستياء (disaffection, discontent, displeasure, dissatisfaction, miff, pout, resentment, sulk), ‏أغصان ظليلة, ‏ظل (ghost, keep, lie, remain, shade, shadow, umbra). (various references)

Bulgarian 

сянка (cloud, ghost, reflection, shade, shadow), отражение (backwash, image, mirror, reflection, reflex, reflexion, repercussion, reverberation), обида (affront, cut, dishonor, dishonour, hurt, indignity, injury, insult, offence, offense, outrage, resentment, slight, slur, wound, wrong). (various references)

Czech

urazit se (take offence, take offense), pocit urážky, dotèení, být dotèen. (various references)

Farsi 

نگرانی (Anxiety, Pine, Solicitude, Stew, Worry), تاریکی (Gloom, Night), تاری (Obscurity), سوظن , سایه شاخ وبرگ , سایه (Auspices, Shade, Shadow, Sunshade, Umber, Umbra), اثر (Affect, Clue, Consequence, Effect, Efficacy, Growth, Impress, Impression, Opus, Rake, Relic, Result, Rut, Sign, Symptom, Trace, Track, Tract, Vestige), رنجش (Acrimony, Annoyance, Bother, Grief, Irritation, Miff, Offense, Pique, Resentment, Vexation), شابهت سایه وار. (various references)

French

prendre ombrage, ombrage. (various references)

German

Anstoß (abuse, annoyance, bully off, difficulty, impetus, impuls, impulse, impulsion, inducement, initiation, kick off, offense, prod, shock), Schatten (cloud, ghost, shade, shades, shadow, shadows, shaped, tail, umbrages). (various references)

Greek 

προσβολή (affront, assault, attack, blow, derogation, indignity, insult, invective, mortification, offence, outrage, slur, stroke), επισκίαση (overshadowing), δυσαρέσκεια (bad feeling, disaffection, discontent, displeasure, dissatisfaction, resentment, unpleasantness). (various references)

Hebrew 

עלבון (affront, humiliation, insult, offence, opprobrium). (various references)

Hungarian

árnyék (adumbration, cast shadow, cloud, shade, shadow, umbra). (various references)

Italian

offesa (affront, attack, damage, insult, offence, offense). (various references)

Manx

sneih (crossness, offence, vexation), sneef. (various references)

Pig Latin

ageumbray

Portuguese

traço (character, dash, feature, score, smack, streak, stroke, trace, track, trait, vestige), suspeita (distrust, doubt, inkling, mistrust, suspicion), sombra (cloud, dusk, ghost, shade, shadow, umbra), rumor (bruit, buzz, dog-bee, drone, embroidery, hearsay, report, rumble, rumor, rumour, sound, susurration, whispering), ressentimento (dudgeon, jealousy, pique, resentment), ofensa (delict, dishonor, dishonour, grievance, harm, injury, insult, mischief, offence, offense, outrage, peccancy, peeve, transgression, trespass, wound, wrong), melindre (pique), folhagem (foliage, green, greenery, leaf, leafage, verdure), despeito (despite, envy, jaundice, pet, pique, resentment, spite). (various references)

Russian 

обида (a smack in the eye /in the face/, grievance, hurt, injury, offence, offense, pique, wound). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

uvreda (affront, assault, contumely, dudgeon, grievance, hurt, indignity, insult, knock, offence, offense, outrage, pique, wound), senka (shade, shadow, silhouette, tint, umbra). (various references)

Spanish

resentimiento (pique, resentment). (various references)

Swedish

skuggande lövverk, anstöt (indignation, offence, offense, scandal). (various references)

Turkish

içerleme (indignation, resentment), gücenme (displeasure, huff, offence, offense, resentment, tiff, vexation), alınma (receipt, resentment), ağaç gölgesi. (various references)

Ukrainian

тінь (dark, ghost, shade, shadow, umber, umbra), образа (abuse, affront, contumely, dishonor, dishonour, dudgeon, grievance, grouch, indignity, injury, insult, obloquy, offence, offense, opprobrium, outrage, resentment, snub, wound), ображати (abuse, affront, damnify, dishonor, dishonour, frump, huff, humiliate, injure, insult, offend, outrage, revile), затьмарити (outshine), покривати тінню. (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự mếch lòng, cảm tưởng bị l� m nhục, bóng râm cảm tưởng bị coi khinh. (various references)

ombrage. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "umbrage": umbrageous, umbrageously, umbrageousness, umbrageousnesses, umbrages. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Umbrage" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: umberage, Umbgrove, umbradge, umbrange, umbrige, umbrrage, umfrage, unbrage. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: bregma, mauger, maugre, umbrae.

-2 letters: amber, argue, auger, barge, begum, bream, brume, embar, gambe, gamer, grume, marge, regma, rugae, rumba, umber, umbra.

-3 letters: ager, ague, arum, bare, barm, beam, bear, beau, bema, berg, berm, brae, brag, bura, burg, gamb, game, garb, gaum, gaur, gear, germ, geum, grab, gram, grub, grue, grum, guar, mabe.

+1 letter: umbrages.

+2 letters: beglamour, brummagem, hamburger.

+3 letters: beglamours, brummagems, hamburgers, seaborgium, submanager, umbrageous.

+4 letters: beglamoured, burgomaster, drumbeating, seaborgiums, submanagers, umbrellaing.

+5 letters: beglamouring, burgomasters, drumbeatings, umbrageously.