Better word for angry

What is another word for Angry?

• furious

  manner, state

• irate

  furious, manner

• indignant

  furious, feeling

• mad

  furious, manner

• wrathful

  furious, manner

• sore

  inflamed, feeling

• enraged

  participle, furious

• irritated

  feeling, unhappy

• annoyed

  irritated, unhappy

• raging

  manner, state

• cross

  behaviour, irate

• incensed

  state, being mad

• infuriated

  hot, angered

• ireful

  being mad

• choleric

  irascible, feelings

• resentful

  feeling, vicious

• vexed

  irritated, unhappy

• irascible

  cranky, being mad

• inflamed

  being mad

• outraged

  being mad

• angered

  burned up

• displeased

  unhappy, irate

• fuming

  hot

• wild

  mad

• wroth

  ireful

• livid

  mad

• tempestuous

  heated

• hot

  heated

• irritable

  feeling, cranky

• irked

  irate

• sullen

• heated

• bitter

  bad-tempered

• stormy

  heated

• exasperated

  irate

• riled

  mad

• ill-tempered

  bad-tempered

• acrimonious

  vicious, bad-tempered

• piqued

  irate

• provoked

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1.         Acrid: extremely harsh (or an unpleasant taste or smell)

2.         Acrimonious: harshly unpleasant

3.         Aggravated: angrily agitated

5.         Annoyed: angry about being disturbed

6.         Antagonistic: angrily opposed

7.         Antipathetic: expressing aggression or aversion

8.         Apoplectic: violently angry, from the word apoplexy, meaning having a stroke

9.         Ballistic: explosively angry, from the word meaning projectile flight

10.       Bellicose: aggressively angry, from the synonym for warlike

11.       Belligerent: see bellicose

12.       Bent out of shape: as in stooped over while screaming

13.       Beside oneself: seeming out of character

15.       Blue in the face: see frustrated, from the idea of facial discoloration caused by extreme emotion

16.       Boiling: extremely angry, meaning being agitated like heated water

17.       Bristling: defensively angry, like an animal’s hair bristling as it responds to a threat

18.       Burning: extremely angry, from the body overheating due to intense feeling

19.       Caustic: cruelly angry, or sarcastic

20.       Chagrin: distress caused by humiliation or failure

21.       Cheesed off: see frustrated (also “bored” or “disgusted”)

22.       Choleric: easily angered

23.       Churlish: disrespectfully angry

24.       Cold: emotionally remote anger

25.       Contrary: uncooperatively angry

26.       Cool: angry but emotions are held in check

28.       Disgruntlement: ill-humored or discontented

31.       Embittered: made upset

32.       Enraged: violently angry

33.       Exasperated: see frustrated

35.       Fit to be tied: extremely angry, suggesting that the angry person should be restrained

36.       Flare up: so angry you might turn into fire

37.       Fly off the handle: refers to loose ax head flying off the handle when swung

38.       Foaming: so angry as to suggest insanity caused by hydrophobia (rabies), as in foaming at the mouth is symptomatic of the disease

39.       Frustrated: upset due to obstacles or challenges

40.       Fuming: extremely angry, from the association of a volcano or other heated natural phenomenon

41.       Fury: destructive rage; refers to mythic Furies (avenging Greek deities who torment criminals and inflict plagues)

42.       Furious: intensely angry

43.       Galled: fret or wear by friction; become sore from rubbing

44.       Go berserk: ancient Scandinavian warrior frenzied in battle and held to be invulnerable

45.       Going crook: losing one’s temper

46.       Hopping: jumping up and down to express anger

47.       Hopping mad: see hopping

48.       Horn-mad: extremely angry

49.       Hostile: actively intimidating, unfriendly, or resistant

50.       Hot: physical discomfort caused by anger

51.       Hot under the collar: see hot

54.       In a lather: referring to ‘lathering at the mouth’ from Rabies

55.       In high dudgeon: state of indignation

56.       Incensed: see indignant

57.       Indignant: angry because of a real or perceived slight or unjust attack

59.       Infuriated: see furious

61.       Irascibility: easily provoked anger

65.       Livid: intensely angry to the point of being unable to control oneself (livid, however, can also mean “bruised,” “pale,” or “colorful,” with the second sense associated with pain, shock, or fear)

66.       Mad: insane or crazy; also used to mean angry as in unable to think clearly due to madness

67.       Malcontent: displeased

68.       Outraged: angry about an offense

69.       Passionate: easily angered

71.       Perturbed: upset (or confused)

72.       Pissed off: aggravated

73.       Piqued: aroused through provocation

74.       Provoke: arouse to feeling or action

77.       Rancorous: malevolently angry

79.       Ranting: irrationally angry

81.       Riled: upset; quickened heartbeat

83.       Ruffled feathers: as in a bird’s raised feathers to intimidate

84.       Seeing red: so angry that one’s vision is blurred by excess blood flow in the eyes

85.       Seething: repressing violent anger

86.       Shirty: British for irritated

87.       Smoldering: see seething

89.       Soreheaded: see indignant

92.       Storming: anger suggestive of stormy weather

95.       Tetchiness: (tetchy) another form of touchy or irritable

96.       Testiness: easily annoyed

97.       Ticked: angry; also “ticked off”

99.       Vitriolic: see caustic

101.     Wrathful: see furious