Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Feeling or showing anger; incensed or enraged: angry at a rude neighbor; angry with a salesclerk.
- adj. Indicative of or resulting from anger: an angry silence.
- adj. Having a menacing aspect; threatening: angry clouds on the horizon.
- adj. Chiefly New England & Midland U.S. Inflamed and painful: an angry sore.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Causing grief or trouble; troublesome; vexatious; trying.
- Feeling grief or trouble; grieved; troubled; vexed.
- Feeling or showing anger or resentment (with or at a person, at or about a thing): said of persons.
- Characterized by or manifesting anger; wrathful: as, an angry look or mood; angry words; an angry reply.
- Bearing the marks of anger; having the appearance of being in anger; frowning; fierce: as, an angry countenance; angry billows.
- Having the color of the face of one who is in anger; red.
- Sharp; keen; vigorous.
- In medicine, inflamed, as a sore; exhibiting inflammation.
- = Syn. 3, 4, 5. Indignant, incensed, passionate, resentful, irritated, wrathful, irate, hot, raging, furious, stormy, choleric, inflamed, tumultuous.
Wiktionary
- adj. Displaying or feeling anger.
- adj. Inflamed and painful.
- adj. Dark and stormy, menacing.
- adj. Vexatious.
- adj. Enraged, irate.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Troublesome; vexatious; rigorous.
- adj. Inflamed and painful, as a sore.
- adj. Touched with anger; under the emotion of anger; feeling resentment; enraged; -- followed generally by
with before a person, andat before a thing. - adj. Showing anger; proceeding from anger; acting as if moved by anger; wearing the marks of anger
- adj. Red.
- adj. Sharp; keen; stimulated.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. (of the elements) as if showing violent anger
- adj. feeling or showing anger
- adj. severely inflamed and painful
Etymologies
- Middle English angri, from anger, anger; see anger.
Examples
“That man would be angry, _angry_ if he came and found her gone!”
“-- I am glad it made you laugh for Somebody told me in Greece that you was angry, and I was sorry, as you were perhaps the only person whom I did _not_ want to _make angry_.”
“Despite all this, I've spent my life fighting the label angry black woman because it's a handy way to put a black woman down, modern-day shorthand for telling her not to have ideas above her station.”
The Guardian: Calling us angry? Michelle Obama and the 'angry black woman' label | The panel
“Murdoch flies into London later this week on a scheduled visit at a time of turmoil for Britain's best-selling newspaper, with journalists on the title angry at News Corp's powerful management and standards committee MSC, whose reconstruction and trawl of the company's email archive produced the evidence that led to the arrests.”
The Guardian: News Corp may face US inquiry after Sun arrests at News International
“I use the term angry, but it's a tool and you can use it as a tool.”
“Clary glared at him, but he was looking past her, his expression angry and pained.”
Simon & Schuster: The Mortal Instruments: Book One: City of Bones
“One, he gives new meaning to the term angry, white male.”
“That's the term angry business owners have started using when they feel unfairly criticized on the popular review site.”
“Also, what I call angry shoes: those platforms with the multiple buckles and studs.”
The Huffington Post: Nina Garcia So Over 'Angry Shoes,' Says 'Polished Girl Is Back'
“She glanced back and saw that he was chasing her, his expression angry, his arms out as if preparing to grab her.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘angry’.
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Reds
crimson, blood, scarlet, rott, rojo, brick, fire engine, vermilion, carmine, burgundy, amaranth, alizarin and 115 more...
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Adjectives with 2 syllables that end in -y
angry, bossy, busy, chilly, cheesy, creepy, dirty, early, funny, hairy, happy, healthy and 126 more...
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Describing People
eye, hair, mouth, nose, tooth, head, face, arm, hand, finger, lip, leg and 212 more...
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Adjectives
sagacious, average, angry, mad, crazy, giant, ugly, pretty, happy, sad, lonely, solitary and 119 more...
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everything
everythin?
a, i, aardvark, abdominals, any, anti-, ash, actuall, actually, add, abs, ass and 43 more...
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I am : oppressive
Words that are oppressive. Describing anger, violence, aggression (overt and covert), opposition, tension. strong stance and lack of harmony.
Still working on exact definition...angry, enraged, furious, mad, obstreperous, violent, aggressive, truculent, obdurate, obstinate, defiant, hostile and 33 more...
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Emotions
affection, longing, cheerfulness, pride, optimism, relief, success, suprise, irritation, rage, hope, love and 29 more...
oroboros Angry shouldn't drive,
You'll get there fast but not safe
But let hungry cook!
Stu Charno Nov 7, 2007