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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Feeling or showing anger; incensed or enraged: angry at a rude neighbor; angry with a salesclerk.
  2. adj. Indicative of or resulting from anger: an angry silence.
  3. adj. Having a menacing aspect; threatening: angry clouds on the horizon.
  4. adj. Chiefly New England & Midland U.S. Inflamed and painful: an angry sore.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Causing grief or trouble; troublesome; vexatious; trying.
  2. Feeling grief or trouble; grieved; troubled; vexed.
  3. Feeling or showing anger or resentment (with or at a person, at or about a thing): said of persons.
  4. Characterized by or manifesting anger; wrathful: as, an angry look or mood; angry words; an angry reply.
  5. Bearing the marks of anger; having the appearance of being in anger; frowning; fierce: as, an angry countenance; angry billows.
  6. Having the color of the face of one who is in anger; red.
  7. Sharp; keen; vigorous.
  8. In medicine, inflamed, as a sore; exhibiting inflammation.
  9. = Syn. 3, 4, 5. Indignant, incensed, passionate, resentful, irritated, wrathful, irate, hot, raging, furious, stormy, choleric, inflamed, tumultuous.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Displaying or feeling anger.
  2. adj. Inflamed and painful.
  3. adj. Dark and stormy, menacing.
  4. adj. Vexatious.
  5. adj. Enraged, irate.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Troublesome; vexatious; rigorous.
  2. adj. Inflamed and painful, as a sore.
  3. adj. Touched with anger; under the emotion of anger; feeling resentment; enraged; -- followed generally by with before a person, and at before a thing.
  4. adj. Showing anger; proceeding from anger; acting as if moved by anger; wearing the marks of anger
  5. adj. Red.
  6. adj. Sharp; keen; stimulated.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. (of the elements) as if showing violent anger
  2. adj. feeling or showing anger
  3. adj. severely inflamed and painful

Etymologies

  1. Middle English angri, from anger, anger; see anger.

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  • oroboros Angry shouldn't drive,
    You'll get there fast but not safe
    But let hungry cook!

    Stu Charno Nov 7, 2007

‘angry’ has been looked up 3320 times, added to 26 lists, commented on 1 time, and has a Scrabble score of 9.