angry
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæŋ.ɡɹi/
rhymes: -æŋɡɹi
Forms: form: angrier
form: more angry
form: angriest
form: most angry
Etymology: From Middle English angry; see anger.
Senses: examples: text: His face became angry.
text: An angry mob started looting the warehouse.
text: Then we relapsed into a discomfited silence, and wished we were anywhere else. But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud, and with such a hearty enjoyment that instead of getting angry and more mortified we began to laugh ourselves, and instantly felt better.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
text: Cone, who once called himself “the angriest theologian in America,” is still angry.
ref: 2018 April 30, John Blake, “Remembering the theologian who took on the hypocrisy of the white church”, in CNN:
text: But, statistically-speaking, there is significantly-greater-than-even odds of the American forces coming out victorious - as I said, largely due to, one, the sheer technology advantage of the radar and fire-control systems, and also two, the almighty swarm of Fletchers. Never, ever underestimate the firepower of an almighty swarm of angry Fletchers.
ref: 2019 March 6, Drachinifel, 41:58 from the start, in The Battle of Samar (Alternate History) - Bring on the Battleships!, archived from the original on 20 Jul 2022:
text: I kept my window rolled up, eyes on the road, probably making the pickup man angrier with my silence.
ref: 2024 June 10, Thomas Lake, “17 years later, I still remember this act of kindness from another driver”, in CNN:
text: All considered, never going to bed angry sounds like a good rule to live by. But it isn’t always useful, Romanoff said.
ref: 2025 May 16, Kristen Rogers, “The surprising benefits of going to bed angry at your partner”, in CNN:
glosses: Displaying or feeling anger.
examples: text: The broken glass left two angry cuts across my arm.
glosses: Inflamed and painful.
raw_tags: said about a wound or a rash
examples: text: Angry clouds raced across the sky.
text: […]nor dreads he the angry sea[…]
ref: 1756, Christopher Smart, “Ode II”, in The Book of the Epodes, translation of original by Horace:
text: When she and her sister were away at Williamsburg, Nancy and I were more like founderers on a raft adrift in an angry sea.
ref: 1997, Kelly Joyce Neff, Dear Companion: The Inner Life of Martha Jefferson, page 92:
qualifier: like the sky or the sea
glosses: Dark and stormy, menacing.
raw_tags: said about the elements
Synonyms: sense: displaying anger
word: upset
sense: displaying anger
word: mad
sense: displaying anger
word: enraged
sense: displaying anger
word: wrathful
sense: displaying anger
word: furious
sense: displaying anger
word: apoplectic
sense: displaying anger
word: irritated
sense: displaying anger
word: annoyed
sense: displaying anger
word: vexed
sense: displaying anger
word: pissed off
sense: displaying anger
word: cheesed off
sense: displaying anger
word: worked up
sense: displaying anger
word: psyched up
sense: displaying anger
word: ireful
word: angry
word: bad-tempered
word: berserk
word: big mad
word: blood-boiling
word: boiling mad
word: choleric
word: cross
word: fit to be tied
word: fuming
word: furibund
word: fury
word: glimflashy
word: hopping mad
word: ill-natured
word: incensed
word: infuriated
word: irate
word: ired
word: little mad
word: livid
word: mad as a bear with a sore head
word: pathetic
word: p'd off
word: pissed
word: pissy
word: raging
word: ready to be tied
word: screwfaced
word: seething
word: spitting chips
word: splenetic
word: sore
word: steaming
word: up on one's ear
word: waxy
word: wode
word: wroth
word: zowerswopped
Hypernyms: word: emotionful
word: passionate
Hyponyms: word: indignant
Derived terms: a hungry man is an angry man
angery
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Related terms: word: anger
word: tantrum
word: lose one's temper