OUTRAGED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does outraged mean? 

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

1. angered at something unjust or wrong

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• OUTRAGED (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 

But it is equally true that he then withdrew, leaving the gang to receive the punishment of the outraged gods.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Those men are cursing because their desires have been outraged.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

"Yes, but you won't do it," answered Laurie, who wished to make up, but felt that his outraged dignity must be appeased first.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

That woman, who has so abused your long- suffering, so sullied your name, so outraged your honour, so blighted your youth, is not your wife, nor are you her husband.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The generous nature of Safie was outraged by this command; she attempted to expostulate with her father, but he left her angrily, reiterating his tyrannical mandate.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

She was hurt and outraged by what had taken place, and yet she lay in his arms and quivered while he went on muttering, "The beasts! The beasts!"

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The autumn sun streamed down as brightly as ever, and the peaceful red path still wound in front of them through the rustling, yellow-tinted forest, Nature seemed to be too busy with her own concerns to heed the dignity of an outraged pontiff.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Her form, though not so correct as her sister's, in having the advantage of height, was more striking; and her face was so lovely, that when in the common cant of praise, she was called a beautiful girl, truth was less violently outraged than usually happens.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

It went from me with a shock, like a ball fired from a rifle: but the image of Agnes, outraged by so much as a thought of this red-headed animal's, remained in my mind when I looked at him, sitting all awry as if his mean soul griped his body, and made me giddy.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He faced the boy, bristling and snarling, his sense of justice outraged.

(White Fang, by Jack London)