tantrum
/ˈtæn.tɹʌm/
tantrum noun: an often childish display or fit of bad temper.
Noun
tantrum (plural tantrums)
- An often childish display or fit of bad temper.
- Many parents become embarrassed by their children throwing tantrums in public places.
- Baby Shawn threw a tantrum when he was told the bicycle was not his.
- Synonyms:
- dummy spit, hissy fit, meltdown, catfit, conniption, conniption fit, headfit, hissy, melty, paddy
Verb
tantrum (third-person singular simple present tantrums, present participle tantruming or tantrumming, simple past and past participle tantrumed or tantrummed)
- To throw a tantrum.
tantrum meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada
tantrum in Tamil
- often childish display of bad temper
- ரகளை rakaḷai
tantrum in Urdu
- غضب, غصے کا اظہار
tantrum in Malayalam
- fit of rage, fit of temper, fit
- കലി, കലികൊള്ളൽ, കാരണം ഇല്ലാത്ത ക്രോധാവേശം, ദുശ്ശാഠ്യം, കടുംകോപം, ക്ഷോഭം
tantrum in Kannada
- ಕೋಪೋದ್ರೇಕ, ಸಿಡಿಮಿಡಿ, ಕೋಪದ ಪ್ರದರ್ಶನ, ಸಿಟ್ಟಿನ ತೋರ್ಕೆ
More languagesFewer languages
- tantrum in Nepali
- तान्ट्रम
- tantrum in Tagalog
- pag-aalumihit
- tantrum in Arabic
- فَوْرة غَضَب, نَوْبة غَضَب, سَوْرة sawra, هَيَجان hayajān
- tantrum in Persian
- کج خلقی, خشم, قهر
Examples of tantrum in a sentence
- Your childish temper tantrums are not going to change my decision on this matter.
- The man was immature for throwing a tantrum.
- He's having a tantrum about it.
Synonyms of tantrum
Forms of tantrum
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | tantrums |
| alternative form (obsolete) | tantrem |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | tantrums |
| present participle | tantruming |
| present participle | tantrumming |
| past participle | tantrumed |
| past | tantrumed |
| past participle | tantrummed |
| past | tantrummed |
Origin of tantrum
From earlier tanterum. Further etymology unknown.
Words formed from tantrum
Phrases with tantrum
Questions about tantrum
- What does tantrum mean?
- Tantrum means an often childish display or fit of bad temper.
- What is tantrum in Tamil?
- Tantrum in Tamil is ரகளை (rakaḷai). See Tantrum meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is tantrum?
- Tantrum can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce tantrum?
- Tantrum is pronounced /ˈtæn.tɹʌm/.
- What is the plural of tantrum?
- The plural of tantrum is tantrums.
Words near tantrum in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: tantrum (page history and authors); tantrum (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); tantrum (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); tantrum (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); tantrum (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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