angry

A1
US /ˈæŋ.ɡɹi/
adj verb Freq #920

Meanings

  1. 1
    adj

    feeling or showing anger

    angry at the weather

  2. 2
    adj

    (of the elements) as if showing violent anger

    angry clouds on the horizon

  3. 3
    adj

    severely inflamed and painful

    an angry sore

  4. 4
    adj

    Displaying or feeling anger.

    His face became angry.

  5. 5
    adj

    Inflamed and painful.

    The broken glass left two angry cuts across my arm.

  6. 6
    adj

    Dark and stormy, menacing.

    Angry clouds raced across the sky.

  7. 7
    verb

    To anger.

    Onely they that repent, and are verie ſorie that they haue angried God with their ſinnes, and yet truſt that they are forgiuẽ them for Chriſtes ſake, and that the reſt of their weakeneſſe and vnperfectnes is couered with his deth & paſſion, who alſo deſire to goe forwarde and growe more and more in holy life & conuerſation.

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.

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Thesaurus

Synonyms
2 adj · (of the elements) as if... wild
4 adj · displaying or feeling anger. annoyedapoplecticcheesed offenragedfuriousirefulirritatedmadpissed offpsyched upupsetvexed
More agitatedbad-temperedberserkblood-boilingbutthurtcholericcrankycrossfrustratedfumingfuribundfury
Opposites
calmsanguineserene
Word family
Derived forms angeryangriesangrifyangrilyangrinessangryableangryphonehangrynonangrysangrysemi-angryunangry
Related forms angertantrum

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