INDIGNANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does indignant mean? 

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

1. angered at something unjust or wrong

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• INDIGNANT (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 

“A score,” cried my aunt, with a kind of indignant pride.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Feeling indignant that he was not taken into his tutor's confidence, he set his wits to work to devise some proper retaliation for the slight.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Again and again I had the same indignant reply.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My passionate and indignant appeals were lost upon them.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

She talked on in her indignant strain, but he was not following her.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I think I may confess, he continued, even although I should make you a little indignant, Jane—and I have seen what a fire-spirit you can be when you are indignant.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

She was most sorrowfully indignant; ashamed of every sensation but the one revealed to her—her affection for Mr. Knightley.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

The whole family perceived it, and Mrs. Dashwood, attributing it to some want of liberality in his mother, sat down to table indignant against all selfish parents.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Hardly had the carriage entered the grounds, when he was set upon by a sheep-dog, bright- eyed, sharp-muzzled, righteously indignant and angry.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The expression of his face changed gradually from indignant contempt to a composed and steady gravity.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)