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My first spoken word poem, packed with all the wisdom of a 14-year-old, was about the injustice of being seen as unfeminine. The poem was very indignant, and mainly exaggerated, but the only spoken word poetry that I had seen up until that point was mainly indignant, so I thought that that's what was expected of me.
Sarah Kay

Meaning of "indignant" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD INDIGNANT

From Latin indignārī to be displeased with.
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PRONUNCIATION OF INDIGNANT

indignant  [ɪnˈdɪɡnənt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF INDIGNANT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Indignant is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES INDIGNANT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

indignant

Anger

Anger is an emotional response related to one's psychological interpretation of having been threatened. Often it indicates when one's basic boundaries are violated. Some have a learned tendency to react to anger through retaliation. Anger may be utilized effectively when utilized to set boundaries or escape from dangerous situations. Sheila Videbeck describes anger as a normal emotion that involves a strong uncomfortable and emotional response to a perceived provocation. Raymond Novaco of UC Irvine, who since 1975 has published a plethora of literature on the subject, stratified anger into three modalities: cognitive, somatic-affective, and behavioral. William DeFoore, an anger-management writer, described anger as a pressure cooker: we can only apply pressure against our anger for a certain amount of time until it explodes. Anger may have physical correlates such as increased heart rate, blood pressure, and levels of adrenaline and noradrenaline. Some view anger as an emotion which triggers part of the fight or flight brain response.

Definition of indignant in the English dictionary

The definition of indignant in the dictionary is feeling or showing indignation.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH INDIGNANT


benignant
bɪˈnɪɡnənt
component
kəmˈpəʊnənt
continent
ˈkɒntɪnənt
dominant
ˈdɒmɪnənt
impregnant
ɪmˈprɛɡnənt
malignant
məˈlɪɡnənt
non-malignant
ˌnɒnməˈlɪɡnənt
nonpregnant
ˌnɒnˈprɛɡnənt
oppugnant
əˈpʌɡnənt
permanent
ˈpɜːmənənt
pregnant
ˈprɛɡnənt
premalignant
ˌpriːməˈlɪɡnənt
prominent
ˈprɒmɪnənt
pseudopregnant
ˌsjuːdəʊˈpreɡnənt
regnant
ˈrɛɡnənt
repugnant
rɪˈpʌɡnənt
stagnant
ˈstæɡnənt
unbenignant
ˌʌnbɪˈnɪɡnənt
unpregnant
ʌnˈprɛɡnənt
unrepugnant
ˌʌnrɪˈpʌɡnənt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE INDIGNANT

indigest
indigested
indigestibility
indigestible
indigestibleness
indigestibly
indigestion
indigestive
indign
indignance
indignantly
indignation
indignify
indignities
indignity
indignly
indigo
indigo bird
indigo blue
indigo bunting

WORDS THAT END LIKE INDIGNANT

complainant
consonant
contaminant
covenant
determinant
Dinant
discriminant
first lieutenant
flight lieutenant
lieutenant
pennant
poignant
predominant
queen regnant
recombinant
remnant
resonant
revenant
ruminant
vernant

Synonyms and antonyms of indignant in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «INDIGNANT»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «indignant» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of indignant

Translation of «indignant» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF INDIGNANT

Find out the translation of indignant to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of indignant from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «indignant» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

愤慨的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

indignado
570 millions of speakers

English

indignant
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

क्रोधित
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

ساخط
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

возмущены
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

indignado
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অত্যুগ্র
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

indigné
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Marah
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

entrüstet
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

憤慨した
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

분개한
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Indignant
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tức giận
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கோபித்து
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

संतप्त
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

öfkeli
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

indignato
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

oburzony
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

обурені
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

indignat
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αγανακτισμένος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

verontwaardig
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

upprörd
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

indignert
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of indignant

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «INDIGNANT»

The term «indignant» is regularly used and occupies the 64.591 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «INDIGNANT» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «indignant» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «indignant» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about indignant

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10 QUOTES WITH «INDIGNANT»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word indignant.
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Ethel Barrymore
You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.
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Ann Coulter
Liberals become indignant when you question their patriotism, but simultaneously work overtime to give terrorists a cushion for the next attack and laugh at dumb Americans who love their country and hate the enemy.
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Norman Finkelstein
My parents often wondered why I would grow so indignant at the falsification and exploitation of the Nazi genocide. The most obvious answer is that it has been used to justify criminal policies of the Israeli state and U.S. support for these policies.
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Alfred Hitchcock
These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.
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Sarah Kay
My first spoken word poem, packed with all the wisdom of a 14-year-old, was about the injustice of being seen as unfeminine. The poem was very indignant, and mainly exaggerated, but the only spoken word poetry that I had seen up until that point was mainly indignant, so I thought that that's what was expected of me.
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Matt Mullenweg
I used to always prefer to text, and in fact got indignant when people called. This was totally irrational.
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Julia Ormond
At first I was a bit indignant about it, and then I realised, 'No, that's what people want, so that's what is given.' But it's not in your control. It's just what happens to you, and that's what's frightening.
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Thucydides
Justice will not come to Athens until those who are not injured are as indignant as those who are injured.
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Marisa Tomei
I grew up on musicals, and I know they are quite the thing now, but I'm actually a little indignant, because I started taking singing lessons years ago - I put the time in!
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Jeremiah Wright
We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America's chickens are coming home to roost.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «INDIGNANT»

Discover the use of indignant in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to indignant and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Indignant Heart: A Black Worker's Journal
A reprint of the 1978 South End Press edition. Denby's autobiography discloses the universality of the struggle for freedom. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Charles Denby, 1989
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The Indignant Generation: A Narrative History of African ...
This book is a major contribution to literary scholarship. I learned quite a lot reading it, and enjoyed every minute doing so."--Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard University "This is a magisterial book.
Lawrence Patrick Jackson, 2011
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Samuel Johnson Is Indignant: Stories
The author of Almost No Memory presents an inventive collection of short fiction that explores the various ways in which human beings perceive each other and themselves, from a couple that suspects their friends think them boring to a ...
Lydia Davis, 2002
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Star Trek: Shadows of the Indignant
MERE ANARCHY A new six-part epic covering thirty years of Star Trek ® history, continuing with an adventure that takes place during the "lost years" following the historic five-year mission!
Dave Galanter, 2006
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Indignant heart, a black worker's journal
Insider's view of the developments in labor & industry from the Detroit wildcat strikes against automation in the mid 1950s to the introduction of robotics into the auto industry.
Charles Denby, 1978
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An Indignant Denial
The Autumn Green (March 18, 2008) Merciless Northerly winds appear, heralding me as if my end is near.
Nasir Jalal, 2011
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The Onion and Philosophy: Fake News Story True Alleges ...
Twenty-one philosophers were commissioned to provide witty philosophical perspectives on just what makes the Onion so truthful and insightful. Former Governor Sarah Palin reported: "I just couldn't put it down. The.
Sharon Kaye, 2013
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The ON-nibus
What can't be so easily established is what comes first: is it that the more indignant we feel toward others, the guiltier we feel about ourselves for being like them or worse; or is our indignation an expression of underlying guilt? To choose a ...
Various Various, 2009
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The Children in Our Lives: Knowing and Teaching Them
hood naturalist who became indignant when the recreation department transformed a patch of wood into a tennis court; I would find a secretary who became indignant when her boss transformed her into his personal domestic by directing her ...
Jane Adan, 1991
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On Eloquence
What occurs to him is “a shape with lion body and the head of a man,” “moving its slow thighs,” “while all about it / Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.”3 Not birds but their shadows, the only parts of them that cannot escape from the ...
Denis Donoghue, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «INDIGNANT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term indignant is used in the context of the following news items.
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Indignant Kyrgyzstan to denounce cooperation agreement with US …
Granting the US Department human rights award to a Kyrgyzstan citizen Azimjon Askarov provoked such an indignation among the Republican ... «Pravda, Jul 15»
2
The Chattanooga Shootings: Can Attacking Military Sites of a Nation …
To this day, many people are indignant that Nidal Hasan was not formally charged with “terrorism” for his attack on the U.S. military base in Fort ... «The Intercept - First Look Media, Jul 15»
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Donbass autonomy to test Ukrainian government | Europe | DW …
And critical voices are indignant and becoming louder. Some have accused Ukrainian leaders of putting down an advance payment with no ... «Deutsche Welle, Jul 15»
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Michaela DePrince's journey from war to ballet stardom inspires …
The girls lining up for her signature and to pose for photos were inspired and indignant at her story. “It makes me feel sad because there's a lot ... «Miami Herald, Jul 15»
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Chitra Ramaswamy: We'll have no women here thanks - The …
The men who didn't get an invite to my International Women's Day party weren't used to the sore, indignant, and shame-infected feeling of ... «Scotsman, Jul 15»
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Police clash with demonstrators on hunger strike against corruption …
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Hundreds of policemen used anti-riot shields Thursday to ward off 22 “indignant” hunger strikers who tried to ... «The Tico Times, Jul 15»
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Paritai Drive: Cultural collision - National - NZ Herald News
They were indignant: how could this apply to privately-owned land? The heritage overlay might require homeowners to obtain a "cultural impact ... «New Zealand Herald, Jul 15»
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HELLO!'s pick of events and new releases - hellomagazine.com
But after the brothers kidnap six local girls during a town barn-raising, a group of indignant villagers tries to track them down. To book tickets ... «hellomagazine.com, Jul 15»
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Kristal Brent Zook: The fluidity of racial identity | Dallas Morning News
That's how I remember answering my indignant fellow student. Her outburst was weird, but then so is a society that places a higher value on ... «Dallas Morning News, Jul 15»
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Green Fury: Aussie PM Tony Abbott Approves Massive New Coal …
Cue apoplexy from the perpetually indignant green left. Last week a contentious A$1.2bn open cut coal mining project was given the thumbs up ... «Breitbart News, Jul 15»

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