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RESENTMENT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will
Synonyms:
bitterness; gall; rancor; rancour; resentment
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
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:
The reverence that I had for his grey head, was mingled with commiseration for his faith in those who were treacherous to him, and with resentment against those who injured him.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Perhaps curiosity might have conquered resentment, if Beth had not been there to inquire and receive a glowing description of the play.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
It was in vain to discover my resentments, which were always turned into ridicule; and I was forced to rest with patience, while my noble and beloved country was so injuriously treated.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
The gaping wound of my wrongs, too, was now quite healed; and the flame of resentment extinguished.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
There he had seen everything to exalt in his estimation the woman he had lost; and there begun to deplore the pride, the folly, the madness of resentment, which had kept him from trying to regain her when thrown in his way.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
No wonder that the ginger-headed man with the silky voice and the free and easy manners was now looked upon with deep interest upon the banks of the great South American river, though the feelings he inspired were naturally mixed, since the gratitude of the natives was equaled by the resentment of those who desired to exploit them.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He was a late riser, as a rule, and as the clock on the mantelpiece showed me that it was only a quarter-past seven, I blinked up at him in some surprise, and perhaps just a little resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
By contrast, those who generally allow such bleak feelings as sadness, disappointment and resentment to run their course reported fewer mood disorder symptoms than those who critique them or push them away, even after six months.
(Embracing Darker Moods Makes You Feel Better, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
He loathed the idea that his daughter should be united to a Christian, but he feared the resentment of Felix if he should appear lukewarm, for he knew that he was still in the power of his deliverer if he should choose to betray him to the Italian state which they inhabited.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
An act of cruelty to a child aroused against me the anger of a passer-by, whom I recognised the other day in the person of your kinsman; the doctor and the child’s family joined him; there were moments when I feared for my life; and at last, in order to pacify their too just resentment, Edward Hyde had to bring them to the door, and pay them in a cheque drawn in the name of Henry Jekyll.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
