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ANGRY
angry
(adjective) feeling or showing anger; “angry at the weather”; “angry customers”; “an angry silence”; “sending angry letters to the papers”
angry, furious, raging, tempestuous, wild
(adjective) (of the elements) as if showing violent anger; “angry clouds on the horizon”; “furious winds”; “the raging sea”
angry
(adjective) severely inflamed and painful; “an angry sore”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
angry (comparative angrier, superlative angriest)
Displaying or feeling anger.
(said about a wound or a rash) Inflamed and painful.
(figuratively, said about the elements, like the sky or the sea) Dark and stormy, menacing.
Usage notes
• The comparative more angry and the superlative most angry are also occasionally found.
• The sense “feeling anger” is construed with with or at when the object is a person: I’m angry with/at my boss. It is construed with at or about when the object is a situation: I’m angry at/about what he said. When both a person and a situation are given, the latter is construed with for instead: I’m angry with/at my boss for what he said.
Synonyms
• (displaying anger): mad, enraged, wrathful, furious, apoplectic; irritated, annoyed, vexed, pissed off, cheesed off, worked up, psyched up
• See also angry
Anagrams
• rangy
Source: Wiktionary
An"gry, a. [Compar. Angrier; superl. Angriest.] Etym: [See Anger.]
1. Troublesome; vexatious; rigorous. [Obs.] God had provided a severe and angry education to chastise the forwardness of a young spirit. Jer. Taylor.
2. Inflamed and painful, as a sore.
3. Touched with anger; under the emotion of anger; feeling resentment; enraged; -- followed generally by with before a person, and at before a thing. Be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves. Gen. xlv. 5. Wherefore should God be angry at thy voice Eccles. v. 6.
4. Showing anger; proceeding from anger; acting as if moved by anger; wearing the marks of anger; as, angry words or tones; an angry sky; angry waves. "An angry countenance." Prov. xxv. 23.
5. Red. [R.] Sweet rose, whose hue, angry and brave. Herbert.
6. Sharp; keen; stimulated. [R.] I never ate with angrier appetite. Tennyson.
Syn.
– Passionate; resentful; irritated; irascible; indignant; provoked; enraged; incensed; exasperated; irate; hot; raging; furious; wrathful; wroth; choleric; inflamed; infuriated.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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