Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Characterized by or filled with indignation. See Synonyms at angry.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Affected with indignation; moved by mixed emotions of anger and scorn; provoked by something regarded as unjust, ungrateful, or unworthy.
- Synonyms Incensed, provoked, exasperated.
Wiktionary
- adj. Showing anger or indignation, especially at something unjust or wrong.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Affected with indignation; wrathful; passionate; irate; feeling wrath, as when a person is exasperated by unworthy or unjust treatment, by a mean action, or by a degrading accusation.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. angered at something unjust or wrong
Etymologies
- Latin indignāns, indignant-, present participle of indignārī, to be indignant, from indignus, unworthy; see indign.
Examples
“We have every reason to remain indignant, disgusted, embarrassed and angry about this fact, but no room anymore whatsoever to feign surprise.”
“I recall one of them in indignant tears on the street corner, weeping as he pointed out my sober condition.”
“Don't get so friggin 'indignant about your own hallucinations, m'kay?”
“Memba Sasa, very erect, very rigid, moving in short indignant jerks, his eye flashing fire.”
“The world saw Israel's despicable violence thanks to al-Jazeera Arabic and Press TV that broadcast in English ... indignant:”
“$1.00 back to the fifty cent mark and coolly pocketed the coin the indignant Ben handed.”
“DAZZLING DISPLAY Mr. Donoghue finds eloquence where others might never think to look: in a sudden switch by Dante into Provençal; in the knocking at the gate in "Macbeth"; in the ambiguities of Donne's poem "The Extasie"; in a single word -- "indignant" -- of a line in "The Second Coming" by Yeats.”
“You, you!" called the indignant Zoie to the departing mother.”
“He recalled the indignant-looking old gentleman who was so excessively well dressed.”
“Here's Mr Edwards 'offering: "Does The Adjudicator recall my indignant correspondence before round three when he suggested the Tigers may be tanking already?”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘indignant’.
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@vcb.etym.prjct - SAT Catchall
brainfood for my hungry, eager pupils
iconoclast, glacial, agnostic, histrionic, treacly, contemptuous, captious, bombastic, bombast, perfidy, quiescence, sordid and 148 more...
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municipal, whit, dissembler, berate, liberally, embellish, dissimilitude, histrionics, flamboyance, bombastic, bovine, calumny and 142 more...
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Describing People
eye, hair, mouth, nose, tooth, head, face, arm, hand, finger, lip, leg and 212 more...
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Words for Anna
exacerbate, pixilate, obviate, placate, titilate, interpolate, perambulate, vacillate, abnegate, indignant, perpetrate, conjure and 7 more...
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Words with that horrible 'gn' sound
pregnant, interregnum, impregnable, signal, signature, prognosis, ignorant, ignominious, magnum, diagnosis, designation, incognito and 37 more...
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Kingly epithets
Take one of CharlesFerdinand's excellent Merovingians or Goths, add a "the" and one of these descriptors, and presto, a character for your long-planned spoof fantasy novel.
unlikely, chuckleheaded, aloof, lacklustre, slow, murky, neurotic, clichéd, pediculous, dour, bungling, dandy and 23 more...
bilby Visuals give a better indication of the hot current usage of this word (Spanish political movement) than the tweets do. Which is, again, part of why I think Twitter is 99.99 (further decimals averted to save your eyes) percent useless noise in the context of this site. Jul 28, 2011
sola My sister was indignant when I threw her cat. Oct 26, 2009