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Antonyms for termagant
Grammar : Adj, noun |
Spell : tur-muh-guhnt |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈtɜr mə gənt |
Definition of termagant
Origin :- c.1500, "violent, overbearing person" (especially of women), from Teruagant, Teruagaunt (c.1200), name of a fictitious Muslim deity appearing in medieval morality plays, from Old French Tervagant, a proper name in "Chanson de Roland" (c.1100), of uncertain origin.
- As in rambunctious : adj loud, energetic
- As in turbulent : adj rebellious, unmanageable
- As in tumultuous : adj confused
- As in disorderly : adj causing trouble; unlawful
- As in vixen : noun foxy person
- As in hag : noun biddy
- As in shrew : noun mean lady
- As in virago : noun aggressive woman
- As in battle-ax : noun harsh, domineering woman
- His wife is a shrew, a termagant, who embitters every hour of his existence.
- Extract from : « The Lion's Skin » by Rafael Sabatini
- The child must not be suffered to grow up into a termagant—you will admit that, I hope?
- Extract from : « Brother Copas » by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
- This bride was a canting hypocrite of sixty-three, covetous, and a termagant.
- Extract from : « The Life and Adventures of Baron Trenck » by Baron Trenck
- She seemed to be a sort of termagant, and she said nobody said that about her unless you told them.
- Extract from : « The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919 » by Various
- There are two claimants on the Milanese, then; the Spanish Termagant, and he?
- Extract from : « History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XII. (of XXI.) » by Thomas Carlyle
- Not to a woman; but I'm sometimes forced to do so to a termagant.
- Extract from : « The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector » by William Carleton
- And I was the termagant who must have put it there, though I have no memory of doing so.
- Extract from : « The Prairie Child » by Arthur Stringer
- It was as if Elizabeth had put herself into the situation of a termagant wife.
- Extract from : « The Town » by Leigh Hunt
- She may be a fool—she may be a termagant—she may be what you please—but—but she has money.
- Extract from : « The Cock and Anchor » by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
- Why, what a bloody-minded, inveterate, termagant strumpet have I been plagued with!
- Extract from : « Thomas Otway » by Thomas Otway
Synonyms for termagant
- agitated
- amazon
- anarchic
- angry
- backbiter
- bag
- battle-ax
- battleaxe
- beldam
- beldame
- biddy
- bitch
- bitter
- boisterous
- calumniator
- carper
- cat
- chaotic
- clamorous
- crone
- demonstrative
- destructive
- detractor
- disobedient
- disorderly
- disruptive
- disturbed
- dragon
- drunk
- excited
- fierce
- fiery
- fire-eater
- fishwife
- foaming
- fractious
- fury
- gorgon
- hag
- harpy
- harridan
- hectic
- hell cat
- hellcat
- hellion
- hussy
- indisciplined
- insubordinate
- intemperate
- irregular
- jezebel
- lawless
- madcap
- Medusa
- muckraker
- mutinous
- nag
- noisy
- obstreperous
- off-base
- ogress
- old biddy
- on-a-tear
- out-of-line
- out-of-order
- passionate
- perturbed
- porcupine
- quarrelsome
- rabid
- raging
- rambunctious
- rampant
- raucous
- rebellious
- refractory
- restless
- reviler
- riotous
- rough
- roughhouse
- rowdy
- rowdydowdy
- rude
- rumbustious
- scold
- seditious
- shaking
- she-devil
- she-wolf
- shrew
- siren
- slattern
- sorceress
- spitfire
- stern
- storming
- stormy
- termagant
- tigress
- tumultous/tumultuous
- turbulent
- unbridled
- uncompliant
- uncontrollable
- uncontrolled
- undisciplined
- ungovernable
- unmanageable
- unrestrained
- unruly
- untamed
- uproarious
- vehement
- violent
- virago
- vituperator
- vixen
- vociferous
- wayward
- wench
- wild
- witch
- Xanthippe
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