RESENTMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does resentment mean? 

• RESENTMENT (noun)
  The noun RESENTMENT has 1 sense:

1. a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will

  Familiarity information: RESENTMENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RESENTMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

bitterness; gall; rancor; rancour; resentment

Hypernyms ("resentment" is a kind of...):

enmity; hostility; ill will (the feeling of a hostile person)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "resentment"):

heartburning (intense resentment)

huffishness; sulkiness (a feeling of sulky resentment)

grievance; grudge; score (a resentment strong enough to justify retaliation)

enviousness; envy (a feeling of grudging admiration and desire to have something that is possessed by another)

Derivation:

resent (feel bitter or indignant about)

 Context examples 

An older and more world-wise man might have been puzzled by her varying moods, her sudden prejudices, her quick resentment at all constraint and authority.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It might be only her own consciousness; but it seemed as if an angel only could have been quite without resentment under such a stroke.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Her heart is made for love and kindness, not for resentment.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

But whether her brother had still exceeded her in resentment, Catherine, though she instinctively addressed herself as much to one as to the other in her vindication, had no means of knowing.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

That he had cut me ever since my marriage, I had seen without surprise or resentment.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

If it be so, if I have been misled by such error to inflict pain on her, your resentment has not been unreasonable.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

And there was a subconscious resentment that these, his kind, at first sight had pitched upon him and tried to destroy him.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

“Halloa, Tregellis!” he cried, in the cheeriest fashion, as my uncle crossed the threshold, and then suddenly the smile faded from his face, and his eyes gleamed with resentment.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mars will provoke any resentments that any of your partners in love or business may have been harboring. 

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

It was not resentment with her, but disapproval; though less sweet-natured women might have resented where she was no more than disappointed.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)