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- Dictionaryum·brage/ˈəmbrij/
noun
- 1. offense or annoyance: "she took umbrage at his remarks"
- 2. shade or shadow, especially as cast by trees. archaic
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The meaning of UMBRAGE is a feeling of pique or resentment at some often fancied slight or insult. How to use umbrage in a sentence. Did you know? Synonym Discussion of Umbrage.
UMBRAGE definition: 1. to feel upset or annoyed, usually because you feel that someone has been rude or shown no…. Learn more.
Umbrage definition: offense; annoyance; displeasure. See examples of UMBRAGE used in a sentence.
When someone takes umbrage at something, they find it offensive, and it probably makes them angry. Umbrage comes from the same source as umbrella, the Latin umbra, "shade, shadow."
UMBRAGE meaning: 1. to feel upset or annoyed, usually because you feel that someone has been rude or shown no…. Learn more.
n. 1. offense; displeasure: to take umbrage at someone's rudeness. 2. the slightest feeling of suspicion, doubt, hostility, or the like. 3. leafy shade, as tree foliage. 4. shade or shadows. [1400–50; late Middle English < Old French; see umbra, -age]
noun. 1. OLD-FASHIONED, Poetic, Obsolete. shade; shadow. 2. foliage, considered as shade-giving. 3. offense or resentment. to take umbrage at a remark. 4. Archaic. a semblance or shadowy appearance.
: a feeling of being offended by what someone has said or done — usually used in the phrase take umbrage. I imagine some people will take umbrage [=will be offended] when they hear the quote. — often + at. I take umbrage at [=I am offended by] that remark.
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English um‧brage /ˈʌmbrɪdʒ/ noun → take umbrage (at something) Examples from the Corpus umbrage • The Republicans, naturally, take umbrage at predictions about what they might do. • If they take umbrage, then they were never a proper friend in the first place.
to feel offended, insulted, or upset by something, often without a good reason synonym take offense He took umbrage at her remarks.
