STEAMED UP Synonyms: 206 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

as in angry

feeling or showing anger I'm really steamed up over his latest outrageous behavior

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steamed up

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verb

past tense of steam up

as in angered

to make angry finding yet another mistaken charge on his hospital bill really steamed him up

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Recent Examples of steamed up

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Be sure to run the bathroom fan after a bathroom gets steamed up during a shower, and shake excess water off the curtain after use. — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 11 Aug. 2026 Since Luca Guadagnino’s spicy sports drama Challengers steamed up screens everywhere, even casual fans have acknowledged that the game stirs up strong feelings. — Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 30 June 2026 Heated Rivalry's love story steamed up the ice in locales around the globe, and is just in time for the 2026 Winter Olympics, where there's no shortage of hockeymania. — Laura Fiengo, Vanity Fair, 13 Feb. 2026 So why does this change have me a little, well, steamed up? — Vivek Astvansh, The Conversation, 14 Oct. 2025

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Adjective

To argue that calling them immigrants is technically wrong is like getting angry at people who don’t pronounce Los Feliz the Spanish way.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2026
Sheriff Rick Ramsay said Monday that the father later told detectives that Lopez was angry that prosecutors didn’t offer him any plea deals, so his son planned to leave the country rather than face conviction.

— David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of angry

Adjective

And not just any velociraptor, but the enraged dinosaur that pushed franchise champion Rachel Reilly into a volcano, thereby burning the reality TV icon to a crisp in a sea of lava.

— Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 1 Oct. 2026
Imagine the ripe smell of swamp-wet dogs, the acrid stench of overheated, enraged bear, the slippery warm blood of pack members already lost; the simply insufferable noise and confusion in that dank little hole.

— Paul Schullery, Outdoor Life, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of enraged

Verb

Sydney Sweeney is no stranger to starring in a controversial ad — and her latest effort has infuriated female athletes, including Olympians.

— Jake Kanter, Deadline, 14 Sep. 2026
But Marcia was beginning to sound like Marcia on the page, Marcia in those essays that both excited and infuriated her readers.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of infuriated

Adjective

After a concertgoer died in the audience at a Carson music festival on Saturday, an artist is outraged the show continued while the deceased was still on-site.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2026
Its students arrive morally outraged, a priori puritans, while its professors are enervated and dissatisfied.

— Zain Khalid, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of outraged

Verb

Blaney, ticked off after finishing 33rd following a crash that resulted from contact with Hocevar’s car, took a couple of swings at Hocevar.

— Ryan Canfield OutKick, FOXNews.com, 29 Sep. 2026
With eight games left in the regular season, the Dodgers already have ticked off the most important boxes on their to-do list for the postseason.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2026

Definition of ticked off

Adjective

Ukraine's air force said that Russia launched 188 drones -- 86 of which were jet-powered -- and an unspecified number of ballistic and cruise missiles into the country overnight.

— David Brennan, ABC News, 30 Sep. 2026
Sanon and several associates flew to Haiti from South Florida on a private jet, smuggling a handful of ballistic vests supplied by a Doral-area security company, prosecutors said.

— Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of ballistic

Verb

Coach Rhett Lashlee was already annoyed with special teams coming into the game, and that was before the Mustangs botched two PAT attempts.

— ABC News, ABC News, 3 Oct. 2026
Those are the fans who have a right to be annoyed about their team having won as many World Series in the last quarter-century as the White Sox.

— Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of annoyed

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