anger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæŋɡə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈæŋɡɚ/
ipa: [ˈeɪŋɡɚ]
rhymes: -æŋɡə(ɹ)
Forms: form: angers
Etymology: From Middle English anger (“grief, pain, trouble, affliction, vexation, sorrow, wrath”), from Old Norse angr, ǫngr (“affliction, sorrow”) (compare Old Norse ang, ǫng (“troubled”)), from Proto-Germanic *angazaz (“grief, sorrow”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂enǵʰ- (“narrow, tied together”).
Cognate with Danish anger (“regret, remorse”), Norwegian Bokmål anger (“regret, remorse”), Swedish ånger (“regret”), Icelandic angur (“trouble”), Old English ange, enge (“narrow, close, straitened, constrained, confined, vexed, troubled, sorrowful, anxious, oppressive, severe, painful, cruel”), German Angst (“anxiety, anguish, fear”), Latin angō (“squeeze, choke, vex”), angor (“strangulation; anguish, torment”) (whence the English doublet angor), Albanian ang (“fear, anxiety, pain, nightmare”), Avestan 𐬄𐬰𐬀𐬵 (ązah, “strangulation; distress”), Ancient Greek ἄγχω (ánkhō, “I squeeze, strangle”), Sanskrit अंहस् (aṃhas), अंहु (aṃhu, “anxiety, distress, affliction”, literally “narrowness”). Also compare with English anguish, anxious, quinsy, and perhaps to awe and ugly. The word seems to have originally meant “to choke, squeeze”.
The verb is from Middle English angren, angeren, from Old Norse angra. Compare with Icelandic angra, Norwegian Nynorsk angra, Norwegian Bokmål angre, Swedish ångra, Danish angre.
Senses: examples: text: vent one's anger
text: relieve one's anger
text: manage one's anger
text: soothe one's anger
text: show one's anger
text: do something in anger
text: You need to control your anger.
text: Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. When a series of bank failures made this impossible, there was widespread anger, leading to the public humiliation of symbolic figures.
ref: 2013 June 28, Joris Luyendijk, “Our banks are out of control”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 3, page 21:
glosses: A strong and unpleasant feeling of displeasure, hostility, or antagonism towards someone or something, usually combined with an urge to yell, say curse words, and/or physically harm or cause damage or destruction to things or attack or assault living beings, often stemming from perceived provocation, hurt, threat, insults, or unfair or unjust treatment, or a situation not going the way one had desired or planned.
examples: text: It heals the Wounds that Sin hath made; and takes away the Anger of the Sore; […]
ref: 1660, Simon Patrick, Mensa mystica, published 1717, page 322:
text: I immediately made the Experiment, ſetting the Moxa where the firſt Violence of my Pain began, which was the Joint of the great Toe, and where the greateſt Anger and Soreneſs ſtill continued, [...]
ref: 1679, William Temple, “An Essay upon the Cure of Gout by Moxa. […]”, in Miscellanea. […], London: […] A. M. and R. R. for Edw[ard] Gellibrand, […], →OCLC, page 209:
glosses: Pain or stinging.
Synonyms: word: bile
word: choler
word: dander
word: displeasure
word: dudgeon
word: fury
word: gall
word: grudge
word: indignation
word: ire
word: rage
word: red mist
word: resentment
word: spleen
word: vexation
word: woodness
word: wrath
Hypernyms: word: emotion
word: passion
Hyponyms: word: apoplexy
word: umbrage
Derived terms: anger balloon
anger bubble
angerful
angerless
angerlike
anger management
angerness
anger room
angersome
angertainment
angry
fire in anger
in anger
use in anger
Related terms: word: anguish
word: anxiety
word: anxious
word: angry
word: annoy
word: enrage
word: dammit
word: lose one's temper
word: tantrum