UMBRAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does umbrage mean? 

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

1. a feeling of anger caused by being offended

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• UMBRAGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A feeling of anger caused by being offended

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

offence; offense; umbrage

Context example:

he took offence at my question

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

anger; choler; ire (a strong emotion; a feeling that is oriented toward some real or supposed grievance)

Derivation:

umbrageous (angered at something unjust or wrong)

 Context examples 

Mr. Jack Maldon shook hands with me; but not very warmly, I believed; and with an air of languid patronage, at which I secretly took great umbrage.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

At length, confused by fright and heat, and doubting whether half London might not by this time be turning out for my apprehension, I left the young man to go where he would with my box and money; and, panting and crying, but never stopping, faced about for Greenwich, which I had understood was on the Dover Road: taking very little more out of the world, towards the retreat of my aunt, Miss Betsey, than I had brought into it, on the night when my arrival gave her so much umbrage.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)