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Webster 1913 Edition


Angry

An′gry

,
Adj.
[
Com
par.
Angrier
;
sup
erl.
Angriest
.]
[See
Anger
.]
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;
as,
angry
words or tones; an
angry
sky;
angry
waves.
“An angry countenance.”
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.
[See anger.]
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.