INCENSED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does incensed mean? 

• INCENSED (adjective)
  The adjective INCENSED has 1 sense:

1. angered at something unjust or wrong

  Familiarity information: INCENSED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INCENSED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Angered at something unjust or wrong

Synonyms:

incensed; indignant; outraged; umbrageous

Context example:

umbrageous at the loss of their territory

Similar:

angry (feeling or showing anger)

 Context examples 

Also, it incensed Mr. Higginbotham, who would have preferred the money taking the form of board.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Whether he was incensed or surprised, or what, it was not easy to tell: he could command his countenance thoroughly.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Day after day passed away without bringing any other tidings of him than the report which shortly prevailed in Meryton of his coming no more to Netherfield the whole winter; a report which highly incensed Mrs. Bennet, and which she never failed to contradict as a most scandalous falsehood.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

My friends, then, were still alive, and though I partly believed the truth of Silver's statement, that the cabin party were incensed at me for my desertion, I was more relieved than distressed by what I heard.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Look wicked, Jane: as you know well how to look: coin one of your wild, shy, provoking smiles; tell me you hate me—tease me, vex me; do anything but move me: I would rather be incensed than saddened.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Her ladyship was highly incensed.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)