different between umbrage vs misdemeanor

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French ombrage (“umbrage”), from Old French ombrage, from Latin umbr?ticus (“in the shade”), from umbra (“shadow, shade”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??m.b??d?/

Noun

umbrage (countable and uncountable, plural umbrages)

1. A feeling of anger or annoyance caused by something offensive.

   Synonyms: annoyance, displeasure, odium, offense, resentment, huff, miff, peeve, pique
2. A feeling of doubt.

   Synonym: suspicion

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

3. Leaves that provide shade, as the foliage of trees.
4. (obsolete) Shadow; shade.
   • 1602, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, act V scene 1

     [...] but in the verity of extolment I take him to be a soul of great article and his infusion of such dearth and rareness as, to make true diction of him, his semblable in his mirror, and who else would trace him, his umbrage, nothing more.

Derived terms

• take umbrage
• umbrageous

Translations

Verb

umbrage (third-person singular simple present umbrages, present participle umbraging, simple past and past participle umbraged)

1. (transitive) To displease or cause offense.
2. (transitive) To shade.

Translations

Middle French

Noun

umbrage m (plural umbrages)

1. shadow

English

Alternative forms

• misdemeanour (UK)

Etymology

mis- +? demeanor

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?m?sd??mi?n?(?)/
• Hyphenation: mis?de?mean?or

Noun

misdemeanor (plural misdemeanors) (American spelling)

1. (law, US) A crime usually punishable upon conviction by a small fine or by a short term of imprisonment. In the USA, misdemeanants usually are incarcerated in county jail for less than one year, but felons usually are incarcerated in state or federal prison for more than one year. Crimes which are punishable by large fines or by longer imprisonment are sometimes called felonies.

Derived terms

• misdemeanant
• misdemeanorize

Synonyms

• petty crime

Translations

See also

• felony (more serious crime)