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Webster 1913 Edition
Angry
1.
Troublesome; vexatious; rigorous.
[Obs.]
God had provided a severe and
angry
education to chastise the forwardness of a young spirit. Jer. Taylor.
2.
Inflamed and painful, as a sore.
3.
Touched with anger; under the emotion of anger; feeling resentment; enraged; – followed generally by with before a person, and at before a thing.
Be not grieved, nor
angry
with yourselves. Gen. xlv. 5.
Wherefore should God be
angry
at thy voice? Eccles. v. 6.
4.
Showing anger; proceeding from anger; acting as if moved by anger; wearing the marks of anger;
“An angry countenance.” as,
angry
words or tones; an angry
sky; angry
waves. Prov. xxv. 23.
5.
Red.
[R.]
Sweet rose, whose hue,
angry
and brave. Herbert.
6.
Sharp; keen; stimulated.
[R.]
I never ate with
angrier
appetite. Tennyson.
Syn. – Passionate; resentful; irritated; irascible; indignant; provoked; enraged; incensed; exasperated; irate; hot; raging; furious; wrathful; wroth; choleric; inflamed; infuriated.
Webster 1828 Edition
Angry
AN'GRY
,Adj.
1.
Feeling resentment; provoked; followed generally by with before a person.God is angry with the wicked every day. Ps. 7.
But it is usually followed by at before a thing.
Wherefore should God be angry at thy voice? Eccles. 5.
2.
Showing anger; wearing the marks of anger; caused by anger; as, an angry countenance; angry words.3.
Inflamed, as a sore; red; manifesting inflammation.4.
Raging; furious; tumultuous.Or chain the angry vengeance of the waves.
Definition 2024
angry
angry
English
Adjective
angry (comparative angrier, superlative angriest)
- Displaying or feeling anger.
- His face became angry.
- An angry mob started looting the warehouse.
- 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 5, in The Celebrity:
- Then we relapsed into a discomfited silence, and wished we were anywhere else. But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud, and with such a hearty enjoyment that instead of getting angry and more mortified we began to laugh ourselves, and instantly felt better.
- (said about a wound or a rash) Inflamed and painful.
- The broken glass left two angry cuts across my arm.
- (figuratively, said about the elements, like the sky or the sea) Dark and stormy, menacing.
- Angry clouds raced across the sky.
- 1756, Christopher Smart, “Ode II”, in The Book of the Epodes, translation of original by Horace:
- […] nor dreads he the angry sea […]
Synonyms
- (displaying anger): mad, enraged, wrathful, furious, apoplectic; irritated, annoyed, vexed, pissed off, cheesed off, worked up, psyched up
- See also Wikisaurus:angry
Usage notes
The comparatives more angry and the superlatives most angry have also occasionally been used.
Derived terms
Translations
displaying anger
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inflamed and painful
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