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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