angry

angry: an|gry

W3S3 [ˈæŋgri] adj comparative angrier superlative angriest

[Date: 1300-1400; Origin: anger]

1.) feeling strong emotions which make you want to shout at someone or hurt them because they have behaved in an unfair, cruel, offensive etc way, or because you think that a situation is unfair, unacceptable etc

→↑annoyed

▪ I was angry because he hadn't told me his plans.

▪ He was beginning to get angry .

▪ His comments brought an angry response from opposition politicians.

▪ 'Calm down,' she said, looking at his angry face.

angry with/at

▪ 'Please don't be angry with me,' she said.

▪ Jesse laughed, which made me even angrier .

angry about/over

▪ Kate's still so angry about the whole thing.

angry (that)

▪ The workers are angry that they haven't been paid for the week.

2.) angry with/at yourself

feeling strongly that you wish you had done something or had not done something

▪ David was angry with himself for letting the others see his true feelings.

3.) literary an angry sky or cloud looks dark and stormy

4.) literary an angry wound etc is painful and red and looks infected

>angrily adv

▪ Joey reacted angrily to the news.

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WORD FOCUS: angry

a little angry: miffed (informal), peeved (informal)

rather angry: annoyed, irritated, cross, in a bad/foul mood

very angry: furious, livid, outraged, incensed, incandescent with rage (formal)

to become angry: lose your temper, go mad (BrE), go berserk (informal), go ballistic (informal), hit the roof (informal)

words for describing someone who often gets angry: bad-tempered, grouchy, cantankerous, crabby, stroppy (BrE informal)

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Synonyms:

Provoked, exasperated, irritated, incensed, piqued, galled, chafed, indignant, moody, sulky, irate, ireful, wroth, wrathful, storming, infuriate, infuriated, furious, raging, resentful, hot, inflamed, mad, passionate, in a passion, in a pet, in the tantrums (colloq.), out of humor, out of temper, out of tune

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angry — angry, irate, indignant, wrathful, wroth, acrimonious, mad mean feeling or showing strong displeasure or bad temper. Angry is applied to persons or their moods, acts, looks, or words; it is also applied to animals {an angry bull} and by extension … New Dictionary of Synonyms
Angry — An gry, a. [Compar. {Angrier}; superl. {Angriest}.] [See {Anger}.] 1. Troublesome; vexatious; rigorous. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] God had provided a severe and angry education to chastise the forwardness of a young spirit. Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
angry — [aŋ′grē] adj. angrier, angriest [ME angri, troubled < ANGER] 1. feeling, showing, or resulting from anger [an angry reply] 2. wild and stormy, as if angry [an angry sea] 3. inflamed and sore [an angry wound] angrily … English World dictionary
angry — (adj.) late 14c., from ANGER (Cf. anger) (n.) + Y (Cf. y) (2). Originally full of trouble, vexatious; sense of enraged, irate also is from late 14c. The Old Norse adjective was ongrfullr sorrowful, and Middle English had angerful anxious, eager… … Etymology dictionary
Angry-la — Angry la: a place either in your mind or in a community where either a state of anger persists (as in the mind) or where anger exists collectively within a community. No matter how pleasantle he s treated, he always behaves, reacts, or replies… … Dictionary of american slang
Angry-la — Angry la: a place either in your mind or in a community where either a state of anger persists (as in the mind) or where anger exists collectively within a community. No matter how pleasantle he s treated, he always behaves, reacts, or replies… … Dictionary of american slang
angry — index resentful, vehement, vindictive Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
angry — [adj] being mad, often extremely mad affronted, annoyed, antagonized, bitter, chafed, choleric, convulsed, cross, displeased, enraged, exacerbated, exasperated, ferocious, fierce, fiery, fuming, furious, galled, hateful, heated, hot, huffy, ill… … New thesaurus
angry — ► ADJECTIVE (angrier, angriest) 1) feeling or showing anger. 2) (of a wound or sore) red and inflamed. DERIVATIVES angrily adverb … English terms dictionary
angry */*/*/ — UK [ˈæŋɡrɪ] / US adjective Word forms angry : adjective angry comparative angrier superlative angriest Metaphor: Being angry is like being hot or on fire. She burned with indignation. ♦ He has a fiery temper. ♦ Jack was a hot tempered young man.… … English dictionary

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