angry

A1 Topic:Emotions & Feelings

US /ˈæŋ.ɡɹi/ UK /ˈæŋ.ɡɹi/ See IPA manual

Freq #920

Meanings

1

adj
Feeling or showing strong displeasure or annoyance.

She was angry with her brother for breaking her phone.
2

adj
Red, sore, and painful-looking.

The broken glass left two angry cuts across my arm.
3

adj
Looking dark and stormy, as if showing anger.

Angry clouds raced across the sky before the storm.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

1 adj · feeling or showing strong... furious mad annoyed upset

3 adj · looking dark and stormy, as... wild

More agitatedbad-tempered berserkblood-boilingbutthurtcholeric cranky cross frustrated fumingfuribundfury

Opposites

calm sanguine serene

Word family

Forms angrierangriest

Derived forms angeryangriesangrifyangrilyangrinessangryableangryphonehangrynonangrysangrysemi-angryunangry

Related forms anger tantrum

Appears in

Phrases (1)

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angry customer
a person buying goods or services who feels strong displeasure

Adjective + noun

Proverbs (1)

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Don't get mad, get even
Matching variant: Don't get angry, get even

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂enǵʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *h₂énǵʰosder. Proto-Germanic *angazaz Old Norse angrbor. Middle English anger Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y Middle English angry English angry From Middle English angry; see anger.

angry Middle English

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Topics

Emotions & Feelings

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# angry

**Type:** Word
**Level:** A1
**Part of speech:** adj
**IPA (US):** /ˈæŋ.ɡɹi/
**IPA (UK):** /ˈæŋ.ɡɹi/
**Frequency rank:** 920

## Meanings
1. Feeling or showing strong displeasure or annoyance.
2. Red, sore, and painful-looking.
3. Looking dark and stormy, as if showing anger.

## Examples
- She was angry with her brother for breaking her phone.
- The broken glass left two angry cuts across my arm.
- Angry clouds raced across the sky before the storm.

## Synonyms
- agitated
- bad-tempered
- berserk
- blood-boiling
- butthurt
- choleric
- cranky
- cross
- frustrated
- fuming
- furibund
- fury

## Antonyms
- calm
- sanguine
- serene

## Derived Forms
- angery
- angries
- angrify
- angrily
- angriness
- angryable
- angryphone
- hangry
- nonangry
- sangry
- semi-angry
- unangry

## Related Forms
- anger
- tantrum

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: angry

## Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂enǵʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *h₂énǵʰosder. Proto-Germanic *angazaz Old Norse angrbor. Middle English anger Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y Middle English angry English angry From Middle English angry; see anger.

## AI Etymology
Angry comes from Middle English angry; see anger.

## Topics
- Emotions & Feelings

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