anger
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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, “to 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.
Inflected forms:
form: angers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: angers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: angering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: angered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: angered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A strong and unpleasant feeling of displeasure, hostility, or antagonism, usually combined with an urge to yell, curse, damage or destroy things, or harm living beings, often stemming from perceived provocation, hurt, threat, insults, unfair or unjust treatment, or an undesired situation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: vent one's anger
relieve one's anger
manage one's anger
soothe one's anger
show one's anger
do something in anger
You need to control your anger.
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.
gloss: Pain or stinging.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: It heals the Wounds that Sin hath made; and takes away the Anger of the Sore; […]
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, [...]
gloss: To cause such a feeling of antagonism in.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He who angers you conquers you.
“Poetling, fret thyself not! / I will not one tittle imperil / Thy sorry cockboat; / Nor yet thy poor dear life will I harass / With over-hazardous tossings. / For thou, little poet, ne’er angeredst me; / Thou hast me no least little pinnacle harmed / Of Priamus’ sacrosanct stronghold; / Nor even the least little lash hast thou singed / Of the eye of my son Polyphemus; / And thee with her counsels protected hath ne’er / The Goddess of Wisdom, Pallas Athené.”
President Donald Trump’s offer to most federal employees to resign now and be paid through September stunned the workers who received it – angering some, confusing many and raising questions about whether the offer is even legal.
gloss: To become angry.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: You anger too easily.
Synonyms: bile
choler
dander
displeasure
dudgeon
fury
gall
grudge
indignation
ire
rage
red mist
resentment
spleen
vexation
woodness
wrath
Antonyms: calmness
happiness
peacefulness
Related words: anguish
anxiety
anxious
angry
annoy
enrage
dammit
lose one's temper
tantrum
Derived words: anger balloon
anger bubble
angerful
angerless
angerlike
anger management
angerness
anger room
angersome
angertainment
angry
fire in anger
in anger
use in anger
angeringly
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