Difference between Incensed and Indignant

What is the difference between Incensed and Indignant?

Incensed as an adjective is enraged; infuriated; spitefully or furiously angry. while Indignant as an adjective is showing anger or indignation, especially at something unjust or wrong.

Incensed

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Enraged; infuriated; spitefully or furiously angry.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To anger or infuriate.

Indignant

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Showing anger or indignation, especially at something unjust or wrong.

Example sentence: My first spoken word poem, packed with all the wisdom of a 14-year-old, was about the injustice of being seen as unfeminine. The poem was very indignant, and mainly exaggerated, but the only spoken word poetry that I had seen up until that point was mainly indignant, so I thought that that's what was expected of me.

We hope you now know whether to use Incensed or Indignant in your sentence.

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