umbrage

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Synonyms 1.3.2 Derived terms 1.3.3 Translations 1.4 Verb 1.4.1 Translations

[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

From Latin umbrāticus (“‘in the shade’”), from umbra (“‘shadow", "shade’”)

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈʌm.brɪdʒ/
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[edit] Noun

umbrage (plural umbrages)

1. Feeling of anger or annoyance caused by something offensive.
2. Feeling of doubt.
3. Leaves that provide shade, as the foliage of trees
4. (obsolete) shadow, shade
   • 1602, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, act V scene 1

     [...] but in the verity of extolment I take him to be a soul of great article and his infusion of such dearth and rareness as, to make true diction of him, his semblable in his mirror, and who else would trace him, his umbrage, nothing more.

[edit] Synonyms

• (feeling of anger or annoyance):: annoyance, displeasure, odium, offense, resentment
• (feeling of doubt):: suspicion

[edit] Derived terms

• take umbrage
• umbrageous

[edit] Translations

• Chamicuro: suchi
• Icelandic: þykkja f., gremja f., skapraun f., skuggi m. (3), forsæla f. (3), laufskrúð n., laufskrúð sem veitir forsælu n.

[edit] Verb

to umbrage (third-person singular simple present umbrages, present participle umbraging, simple past and past participle umbraged)

1. (transitive) To displease or cause offense.
2. (transitive) To shade.

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