Definition of the word angry

1

: feeling or showing anger

2

a

: indicative of or proceeding from anger

b

: seeming to show anger or to threaten in an angry manner

Synonyms

Example Sentences



I’ve never seen her look so angry.



An angry crowd gathered outside the courthouse.



I was angry that he had forgotten my birthday.



What made you so angry?



He got angry when he found out about their plans.



He sent an angry letter to the company president.



They had an argument and exchanged some angry words.



She gave me an angry look.

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Word History

Etymology

Middle English, «ill-tempered, resentful, incensed, vexing,» from anger, angre «distress, affliction, hostile attitude, strong displeasure» + -y -y entry 1 — more at anger entry 1

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler

The first known use of angry was
in the 14th century

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adjective, an·gri·er, an·gri·est.

feeling or showing anger or strong resentment (usually followed by at, with, or about): to be angry at the dean; to be angry about the snub.

expressing, caused by, or characterized by anger; wrathful: angry words.

Chiefly New England and Midland U.S. inflamed, as a sore; exhibiting inflammation.

(of an object or phenomenon) exhibiting a characteristic or creating a mood associated with anger or danger, as by color, sound, force, etc.: an angry sea; the boom of angry guns.

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Origin of angry

First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English; anger + -y1

OTHER WORDS FROM angry

an·gri·ly, adverban·gri·ness, nounhalf-angry, adjective

Words nearby angry

Angoumois grain moth, Angra do Heroismo, Angra Mainyu, Angrboda, angrily, angry, angry young man, angst, angstrom, angsty, Anguier

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Words related to angry

annoyed, bitter, enraged, exasperated, furious, heated, impassioned, indignant, irate, irritable, irritated, offended, outraged, resentful, sullen, uptight, affronted, antagonized, chafed, choleric

How to use angry in a sentence

  • Fishers like them because the worms wriggle and thrash like angry snakes, which lures fish, says Henshue.

  • A recent Facebook post garnered more than 1,500 angry comments supporting him.

  • I don’t need angry lab directors emailing me about broken centrifuges.

  • When presented with images on a screen, we perceive angry faces as lasting longer than neutral ones, spiders as lasting longer than butterflies, and the color red as lasting longer than blue.

  • While there’s no suggestion in court papers that Wenig knew of the plot, prosecutors say his angry emails and texts triggered the scheme, and they play a central role in the narrative spelled out by the government.

  • To borrow an old right-wing talking point, these people are angry no matter what we do.

  • Desert Golfing is the distillation of Angry Birds into its purest essence.

  • But since that explosion of popularity, Angry Birds has become about everything else.

  • And in this way, it follows not what Angry Birds became, but how it began.

  • Angry Birds at its simplest was the same way, though you wanted to watch things collapse and explode.

  • I am an easiful old pagan, and I am not angry with you at all—you funny, little champion of the Most High.

  • Isabel lifted her head still higher, annoyed at the angry blood that leaped to her face.

  • He was given no reply save a muttered curse, a command to hold his tongue, and an angry tug at his tied arms.

  • Smoking, the angry and fuming king protests, had made our manners as rude as those of the fish-wives of Dieppe.

  • When the man turned bad on his hands, Jahweh was angry, and cursed him and his seed for thousands of years.

British Dictionary definitions for angry


adjective -grier or -griest

feeling or expressing annoyance, animosity, or resentment; enraged

suggestive of angerangry clouds

severely inflamedan angry sore

Derived forms of angry

angrily, adverb

usage for angry

It was formerly considered incorrect to talk about being angry at a person, but this use is now acceptable

Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition
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Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Other forms: angrier; angriest

To be angry is to be furious. People who get angry a lot have a short temper.

This is a word for a common emotion: being mad or enraged. People get mad all the time, about traffic, homework, parents, children, and even the weather. When you’re angry it’s hard to think straight: you see red. The sea could be described as angry when its waves ferociously crash the beach. Some synonyms for anger are furious, raging, and tempestuous. If you’re feeling angry, you should blow off steam or count to 10 instead of doing something you’ll regret.

Definitions of angry

  1. adjective

    feeling or showing anger

    angry at the weather”

    angry customers”

    “an
    angry silence”

    “sending
    angry letters to the papers”

    Synonyms:

    aggravated, provoked

    incited, especially deliberately, to anger

    angered, apoplectic, enraged, furious, infuriated, maddened

    marked by extreme anger

    choleric, irascible

    characterized by anger

    hot under the collar

    very angry

    huffy, mad, sore

    roused to anger

    incensed, indignant, outraged, umbrageous

    angered at something unjust or wrong

    irate, ireful

    feeling or showing extreme anger

    livid

    furiously angry

    smoldering, smouldering

    showing scarcely suppressed anger

    wrathful, wroth, wrothful

    vehemently incensed and condemnatory

  2. adjective

    (of the elements) as if showing violent anger

    angry clouds on the horizon”

    synonyms:

    furious, raging, tempestuous, wild

    stormy

    (especially of weather) affected or characterized by storms or commotion

  3. adjective

    severely inflamed and painful

    “an
    angry sore”

    Synonyms:

    unhealthy

    not in or exhibiting good health in body or mind

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Britannica Dictionary definition of ANGRY

[also more angry; most angry]

:

filled with anger

:

having a strong feeling of being upset or annoyed

  • I’ve never seen her look so angry.

  • An angry crowd gathered outside the courthouse.

  • I was angry that he had forgotten my birthday.

  • What made you so angry?

  • He got/grew/became angry when he found out about their plans.

often + at or with

  • He was angry at/with her for staying out so late.

  • I was angry at/with him for forgetting my birthday.

often + about or over

  • She’s still angry about/over the way she’s been treated.

  • Students are angry about/over the increase in tuition.

  • What is she so angry [=(US) mad] about?

:

showing anger

  • He sent an angry letter to the company president.

  • They had an argument and exchanged some angry words.

  • She gave me an angry look.

literary

:

seeming to show anger

:

threatening or menacing

  • The sea/sky grew angry. [=dark and stormy]

  • angry clouds

:

very red and painful

  • an angry rash/sore/scratch

— angrily

/ˈæŋgrəli/

adverb

  • He slammed the door angrily.

  • She glared at us angrily.

an·gry

 (ăng′grē)

adj. an·gri·er, an·gri·est

1. Feeling or showing anger; incensed or enraged: angry at my boss; angry with her.

2. Indicative of or resulting from anger: an angry silence.

3. Having a menacing aspect; threatening: angry clouds on the horizon.

4. Chiefly New England & Midland US Inflamed and painful: an angry sore.


[Middle English angri, from anger, anger; see anger.]


an′gri·ly adv.

an′gri·ness n.

Synonyms: angry, furious, indignant, irate, ireful, mad, wrathful
These adjectives mean feeling or showing marked displeasure: an angry retort; a furious scowl; an indignant denial; irate protesters; ireful words; mad at a friend; a wrathful tyrant.

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

angry

(ˈæŋɡrɪ)

adj, -grier or -griest

1. feeling or expressing annoyance, animosity, or resentment; enraged

2. suggestive of anger: angry clouds.

3. (Medicine) severely inflamed: an angry sore.

ˈangrily adv

Usage: It was formerly considered incorrect to talk about being angry at a person, but this use is now acceptable

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

an•gry

(ˈæŋ gri)

adj. -gri•er, -gri•est.

1. feeling anger or strong resentment: to be angry at the dean; to be angry about the insult.

2. expressing, caused by, or characterized by anger; wrathful: angry words.

3. Chiefly New Eng. and Midland U.S. inflamed, as a sore.

4. exhibiting characteristics associated with anger or danger: an angry sea.

[1275–1325; see anger]

an′gri•ly, adv.

an′gri•ness, n.

Random House Kernerman Webster’s College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.

angry

— Describing a wound or sore that is red and inflamed.

See also related terms for sore.

Farlex Trivia Dictionary. © 2012 Farlex, Inc. All rights reserved.

angry

Angry is normally used to talk about someone’s mood or feelings on a particular occasion. If someone is often angry, you can describe them as bad-tempered.

Are you angry with me for some reason?

She’s a bad-tempered young lady.

If someone is very angry, you can describe them as furious.

Senior police officers are furious at the blunder.

If they are less angry, you can describe them as annoyed or irritated.

The Premier looked annoyed but calm.

…a man irritated by the barking of his neighbour’s dog.

Typically, someone is irritated by something because it happens constantly or continually. If someone is often irritated, you can describe them as irritable.

Collins COBUILD English Usage © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 2004, 2011, 2012

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Adj. 1. angry - feeling or showing angerangry — feeling or showing anger; «angry at the weather»; «angry customers»; «an angry silence»; «sending angry letters to the papers»
2. angry - (of the elements) as if showing violent angerangry — (of the elements) as if showing violent anger; «angry clouds on the horizon»; «furious winds»; «the raging sea»

stormy — (especially of weather) affected or characterized by storms or commotion; «a stormy day»; «wide and stormy seas»

3. angry - severely inflamed and painfulangry — severely inflamed and painful; «an angry sore»

unhealthy — not in or exhibiting good health in body or mind; «unhealthy ulcers»

Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection. © 2003-2012 Princeton University, Farlex Inc.

angry

adjective

1. furious, cross, heated, mad (informal), raging, provoked, outraged, annoyed, passionate, irritated, raving, hacked (off) (U.S. slang), choked, pissed (taboo slang), infuriated, hot, incensed, enraged, ranting, exasperated, irritable, resentful, nettled, snappy, indignant, pissed off (taboo slang), irate, tumultuous, displeased, uptight (informal), riled, up in arms, incandescent, ill-tempered, irascible, antagonized, waspish, piqued, hot under the collar (informal), on the warpath, hopping mad (informal), foaming at the mouth, choleric, splenetic, wrathful, at daggers drawn, in high dudgeon, as black as thunder, ireful He’s an angry man.
furious loving, happy, pleased, friendly, calm, peaceful, pleasant, mild, gratified, agreeable, amiable, congenial

3. threatening, forbidding, grim, menacing, sinister, ominous, baleful, inauspicious Under the angry red sky he ran, into the thickening darkness.

Quotations
«When angry, count four; when very angry, swear» [Mark Twain Pudd’nhead Wilson]

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

angry

adjective

Feeling or showing anger:

The American Heritage® Roget’s Thesaurus. Copyright © 2013, 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Translations

أحْمَر، مُلْتَهِب، مُتَوَرِّمغَاضِبغاضِب

ядосан

rozzlobenýhrozivýpodebraný

vredbetændtømtsur

kolera

vihainen

ljut

dühösharagosmérges

marah

rauîòrútinnreiðreiðurreiîurreitt

怒った

화난

iratus

jezen

arg

โกรธ

tức giận

Collins Spanish Dictionary — Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

angry

[ˈæŋgri] adj

(= red and painful) [wound, rash, spot] → vilain(e)

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

angry

adj (+er)

zornig, ungehalten (geh); letter, lookzornig, wütend; animalwütend; to be angrywütend or böse or verärgert sein; to be angry with or at somebodyjdm or auf jdn or mit jdm böse sein, über jdn verärgert sein; to be angry at or about somethingsich über etw (acc)ärgern; to get angry (with or at somebody/about something) (→ mit jdm/über etw acc) → böse werden; you’re not angry (with me), are you?du bist (mir) doch nicht böse(, oder)?; to be angry with oneselfsich über sich (acc)selbst ärgern, sich (dat)selbst böse sein, über sich (acc)selbst verärgert sein; to make somebody angry (stressing action) → jdn ärgern; (stressing result) → jdn verärgern; it makes me so angryes ärgert mich furchtbar, es macht mich so wütend or böse; angry young manRebell m, → Angry Young Man m (geh)

(= inflamed) woundentzündet, böse; an angry redhochrot

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

angry

[ˈæŋgrɪ] adj (-ier (comp) (-iest (superl))) (gen) → arrabbiato/a, furioso/a; (annoyed) → irritato/a; (wound) → infiammato/a; (sky) → minaccioso/a
to be angry with sb/about or at sth → essere arrabbiato/a or in collera con qn/per qc
to get angry → arrabbiarsi
to make sb angry → far arrabbiare qn
you won’t be angry, will you? → non ti arrabbi, vero?
he was angry at being treated so badly → era arrabbiato perché lo avevano trattato così male

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

anger

(ˈӕŋgə) noun

a violent, bitter feeling (against someone or something). He was filled with anger about the way he had been treated.

verb

to make someone angry. His words angered her very much.

ˈangry adjective

1. feeling or showing anger. He was so angry that he was unable to speak; angry words; She is angry with him; The sky looks angry – it is going to rain.

2. red and sore-looking. He has an angry cut over his left eye.

ˈangrily adverb


angry at something: We were angry at the delay .
angry with someone: He is angry with his sister .

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.

angry

غَاضِب rozzlobený vred wütend θυμωμένος enfadado vihainen en colère ljut arrabbiato 怒った 화난 boos sint zły com raiva, zangado сердитый arg โกรธ kızgın tức giận 愤怒的

Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009

angry

adj enojado; to get — enojarse, enfadarse

English-Spanish/Spanish-English Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.

  • Albanian: i zemëruar (sq)
  • American Sign Language: Claw5@NearNose-PalmBack
  • Arabic: غَاضِب(ḡāḍib), غَضْبَان(ḡaḍbān)
    Egyptian Arabic: منرفز(menarfez), غضبان(ḡaḍbān)
    Gulf Arabic: معصب(mʿaṣṣib)
    Hijazi Arabic: معصب(muʿaṣṣib)
    Moroccan Arabic: معصب(mʿaṣṣab), غضبان(ḡaḍbān), غاضب(ḡāḍeb)
    South Levantine Arabic: غضبان(ḡaḍbān)
  • Armenian: ջղային (hy) (ǰłayin), զայրացած (zayracʿac), բարկացած (barkacʿac)
  • Azerbaijani: hirsli (az), qızğın (az), əsəbi
  • Belarusian: сярдзі́ты (sjardzíty), злы (zly)
  • Bengali: উত্তেজিত (bn) (uttejitô) (visibly upset, heated), রাগী (ragi) (as a personality trait)
  • Bikol Central: anggot (bcl), dagit (bcl)
  • Breton: droug en unan bennak (literally in somebody)
  • Bulgarian: ядо́сан (bg) (jadósan), разгне́вен (bg) (razgnéven), сърди́т (bg) (sǎrdít)
  • Burmese: စိတ်ဆိုး (my) (cithcui:)
  • Catalan: enfadat (ca), enutjat (ca)
  • Cebuano: suko
  • Chickasaw: hashaa, ishhashaa (to be angry about), i̠hashaa (to be angry at/with)
  • Chinese:
    Cantonese: (nau1)
    Mandarin: 恼怒 (zh) (nǎonù), 憤怒愤怒 (zh) (fènnù), 生氣生气 (zh) (shēngqì)
    Min Nan: 受氣受气 (zh-min-nan) (siū-khì)
  • Chuukese: song
  • Czech: naštvaný (cs), rozzlobený (cs), rozhněvaný (cs), zlostný
  • Danish: vred, sur (da)
  • Dutch: kwaad (nl), boos (nl)
  • Esperanto: kolera (eo)
  • Finnish: vihainen (fi)
  • French: fâché (fr), en colère (fr)
    Old French: irié, irous
  • Gallurese: airatu
  • Georgian: გაბრაზებული (gabrazebuli), გაჯავრებული (gaǯavrebuli), გაღიზიანებული (gaɣizianebuli)
  • German: böse (de), verärgert (de), zornig (de)
  • Gothic: 𐌸𐍅𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌷𐍃 (þwairhs)
  • Greek: θυμωμένος (el) (thymoménos)
    Ancient: ὀργίλος (orgílos)
  • Greenlandic: ninngappoq
  • Hawaiian: huhū
  • Hebrew: סר (he) (sar)
  • Hindi: रूठा (rūṭhā), क्रोधित (hi) (krodhit), नाराज़ (nārāz), ग़ुस्सा (ġussā)
  • Hungarian: mérges (hu), dühös (hu), haragos (hu), (literary) ingerült (hu), bosszús (hu), dühödt (hu), bősz (hu), (informal) ideges (hu)
  • Icelandic: reiður (is)
  • Ido: iracoza (io)
  • Indonesian: marah (id)
  • Irish: expressed by a phrase using the noun fearg f «anger», cochallach
  • Italian: arrabbiato (it)
  • Jamaican Creole: vex, bex
  • Japanese: 怒った (ja) (おこった, okotta)
  • Kabuverdianu: iradu
  • Kazakh: ашулы (kk) (aşuly)
  • Khmer: ខឹង (km) (khəng), ដែលខឹង (dael khəng)
  • Korean: 화난 (ko) (hwanan)
  • Krio: vex
  • Kurdish:
    Central Kurdish: تووڕە(tûrre), قەڵس(qells)
    Southern Kurdish: تۊڕە(türre)
  • Kyrgyz: ачуулуу (ky) (açuuluu), каардуу (ky) (kaarduu), каарданган (ky) (kaardangan), ачуу (ky) (açuu), катуу (ky) (katuu), нааразы (ky) (naarazı), ыраазы эмес (ky) (ıraazı emes), кыжырланган (ky) (kıjırlangan), кыжырлуу (ky) (kıjırluu), жини келген (ky) (jini kelgen), жинденген (ky) (jindengen), жини келген (ky) (jini kelgen), туталанган (ky) (tutalangan), ырайымсыз (ky) (ırayımsız),штормдуу (аба ырайы (ştormduu (aba ırayı)
  • Lao: ຄຽດ (khīat), ພິໂລດ (phi lōt)
  • Latgalian: sirdeigs, špetnys
  • Latin: īrātus
  • Latvian: dusmīgs, pikts (lv)
  • Lithuanian: piktas (lt)
  • Louisiana Creole French: kolær, kolè, fashé
  • Macedonian: разгневен (razgneven)
  • Maltese: irrabjat
  • Maori: naunau, manawawera, pukukino, riri, tūpehupehu, hīkaka, pukuriri, ririhau, takariri
  • Middle English: angry
  • Mongolian: ууртай (mn) (uurtaj)
  • Nepali: क्रोधित (ne) (krodhit)
  • Ngazidja Comorian: harimwa usiu
  • Norman: dguffi, mârri
  • North Frisian: ārig (Sylt)
  • Norwegian: sint (no)
    Bokmål: rasende
  • Old English: ierre
  • O’odham: baga
  • Old Swedish: vreþer
  • Persian: خشمگین (fa) (xašmgin), عصبانی (fa) (‘asabâni)
  • Plautdietsch: doll
  • Polabian: zaglĕ m
  • Polish: zły (pl), rozgniewany (pl) m
  • Portuguese: bravo (pt), raivoso (pt), irritado (pt) m
  • Punjabi: ਗੁੱਸਾ (gussā)
  • Quechua: phiñasqa
  • Romanian: furios (ro), mânios (ro), supărat (ro)
  • Rotuman: feke
  • Russian: серди́тый (ru) (serdítyj), злой (ru) (zloj), разгне́ванный (ru) (razgnévannyj), (e.g. tone) гне́вный (ru) (gnévnyj)
  • Sanskrit: कुपित (sa) (kupita)
  • Sardinian:
    Campidanese: arrenegadu
    Logudorese: aghedadu
  • Sassarese: affuttàdu
  • Scots: fasht
  • Scottish Gaelic: fiadhaich
  • Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic: гневан, гњеван
    Roman: gnevan (sh), gnjevan (sh)
  • Slovak: rozhnevaný, zlostný, nahnevaný
  • Slovene: jezen (sl)
  • Southern Altai: ачу (aču)
  • Spanish: enojado (es), enfadado (es)
  • Sundanese: ambek (su), bendu (su)
  • Swedish: arg (sv), ilsken (sv)
  • Tagalog: galit
  • Tajik: хашмгин (tg) (xašmgin), бадқаҳр (badqahr), бадхашм (badxašm), асабонӣ (tg) (asabonī), асабӣ (tg) (asabī)
  • Talysh:
    Asalemi: عصبانی(asebâni)
  • Tamil: கோபமான (kōpamāṉa)
  • Telugu: కోపం (te) (kōpaṁ), ఆగ్రహం (te) (āgrahaṁ), క్రోధం (te) (krōdhaṁ)
  • Thai: โกรธ (th) (gròot)
  • Tok Pisin: belihat, kros
  • Turkish: kızgın (tr), sinirli (tr), asabi (tr)
  • Turkmen: gazaply, gaharly
  • Ukrainian: серди́тий (serdýtyj), злий (uk) (zlyj)
  • Urdu: روٹھا(rūṭhā), ناراض(nārāz)
  • Uzbek: jahldor (uz), badjahl (uz)
  • Vietnamese: giận (vi), tức (vi)
  • Welsh: dig (cy), dicllon, blin (cy) (North Wales)
  • West Frisian: lilk
  • Winnebago: woogitek
  • Yagara: ban
  • Yiddish: ברוגז(broygez), אין כּעס(in kas), ברוגזלעך(broygezlekh), ברוגזדיק(broygezdik), רוגזהדיק(rugzedik)
  • Zazaki: har (diq), fahs
  • Zhuang: hozgaek, hoznyaek

What do we mean by angry?

Feeling or showing anger; incensed or enraged. adjective

Indicative of or resulting from anger. adjective

Having a menacing aspect; threatening. adjective

Inflamed and painful. adjective

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.

Troublesome; vexatious; rigorous. adjective

Inflamed and painful, as a sore. adjective

Touched with anger; under the emotion of anger; feeling resentment; enraged; — followed generally by with before a person, and at before a thing. adjective

Showing anger; proceeding from anger; acting as if moved by anger; wearing the marks of anger adjective

Red. adjective

Sharp; keen; stimulated. adjective

Displaying or feeling anger. adjective

Displaying or feeling anger.

(said about a wound or a rash) Inflamed and painful.

(said about the elements, like the sky or the sea) Dark and stormy, menacing.

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Angry is an emotion that highly contrasts and disagrees with the emotion, happy.
Someone feeling angry will usually have a lack of joy, a lack of judgement, a sense of inbred hate, and overall frustration.
The «image» of someone being angry is usually accompanied by violence, a frown, the furrowing of the eyebrows, and sometimes growling. Urban Dictionary

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A condition upon which the male human penis becomes engorged with blood. From some movie with William Hurt.
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Something extremly wild and exciting. Often used during extreme sports. Urban Dictionary

Really really really really fucking angry. Urban Dictionary

When we get mad, our rational prefrontal lobes shut down and the reflexive back areas of the brain take over. The left hemisphere also becomes more stimulated as the brain’s hormonal and cardiovascular responses kick in.
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The Very definition of Angry Woman, she is angry. Urban Dictionary

Adjective: A state of emotion caused by happiness. This results in the face scrunching up as they yell out obscenities in sheer bliss. Sometimes, impulsive violence arises because they do not want the happiness to end. Urban Dictionary

Don’t make me angry you won’t like me when I’m angry. Urban Dictionary

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      adj   , -grier, -griest  

1    feeling or expressing annoyance, animosity, or resentment; enraged  

2    suggestive of anger  
angry clouds     

3    severely inflamed  
an angry sore     

  angrily      adv  
It was formerly considered incorrect to talk about being angry at a person, but this use is now acceptable  

angry young man  
      n  

1    often caps   one of several British novelists and playwrights of the 1950s who shared a hostility towards the established traditions and ruling elements of their country  

2    any similarly rebellious person  

English Collins Dictionary — English Definition & Thesaurus  

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angry

     
annoyed, antagonized, as black as thunder, at daggers drawn, choked, choleric, cross, displeased, enraged, exasperated, fit to be tied     (slang)   foaming at the mouth, furious, hacked (off)     (U.S. slang)   heated, hot, hot under the collar     (informal)   ill-tempered, incensed, indignant, infuriated, in high dudgeon, irascible, irate, ireful, irritable, irritated, mad     (informal)   nettled, on the warpath, outraged, passionate, piqued, pissed off     (taboo slang)   provoked, raging, resentful, riled, splenetic, tumultuous, up in arms, uptight     (informal)   wrathful  
  
Antonyms     
   agreeable, amiable, calm, congenial, friendly, gratified, happy, loving, mild, peaceful, pleasant, pleased  

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A combination of the words «hungry» and «angry»; hence «hangry». Used commonly in slang.


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lighten up

Conjugate

v.

relax; become less serious or less angry

[Slang] It was just an accident! Come on, lighten up!

lose it

exp.

go crazy; get angry; lose self-control

E.g.: I will lose it if we keep listening to this song.

fly off the handle

v.

become very angry ; lose one’s temper

[Fam.] Ex.: She kept a cool head as he was saying all kinds of mean and horrors about her but when he said her Chinese crested dog was ugly, it was the match in the powder barrel and she just flew off the handle

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go postal

id.

go mad; become extremely and uncontrollably angry, often to the point of violence

[Slang];[US];[Fam.] Derives from a series of incidents from 1986 onward in which US Postal Service workers shot and killed managers, fellow workers, and members of the police or general public in acts of mass murder.

the shit hits the fan

exp.

familiar and evocative expression used to describe a chaotic situation in which things turn wrong, suddenly causing a lot of trouble or making someone very angry

[Fam.] Ex.: The shit hit the fan when his wife found out that he had cheated on her.

killing two pigs with one bird

exp.

a modern version of the popular saying «killing two birds with one stone» derived from the popular video game «angry birds.»

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Inflections of ‘angry‘ (adj):
angrier
adj comparative
angriest
adj superlative

WordReference Random House Learner’s Dictionary of American English © 2023

an•gry /ˈæŋgri/USA pronunciation  
adj., -gri•er, -gri•est. 

  1. feeling anger or strong resentment:an angry parent.[be + ~ + at/with]She was angry at the dean. I was angry with the children that night.[be + ~ + about]I was angry about the insult.
  2. showing, expressing, caused by, or characterized by anger;
    wrathful:[usually before a noun]angry words.
  3. Dialect TermsChiefly New England and Midland U.S. [before a noun] inflamed;
    red:an angry sore.
  4. showing characteristics associated with anger:[usually: before a noun]an angry sea; angry clouds.

an•gri•ly, adv. 

    angry is an adjective, anger is a noun, angrily is an adverb:They were very angry with you. He keeps his anger locked up inside. He stalked angrily out of the room.


WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2023

an•gry 
(anggrē),USA pronunciation adj., -gri•er, -gri•est. 

  1. feeling or showing anger or strong resentment (usually fol. by at, with, or about):to be angry at the dean; to be angry about the snub.
  2. expressing, caused by, or characterized by anger;
    wrathful:angry words.
  3. Dialect Terms[Chiefly New Eng. and Midland U.S.]inflamed, as a sore;
    exhibiting inflammation.
  4. (of an object or phenomenon) exhibiting a characteristic or creating a mood associated with anger or danger, as by color, sound, force, etc.:an angry sea; the boom of angry guns.
  • Middle English. See anger,y1 1275–1325

angri•ly, adv. 
angri•ness, n. 

    • 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged irate, incensed, enraged, infuriated, furious, mad; provoked, irritated.


    • 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged calm.


Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::

angry /ˈæŋɡrɪ/ adj ( -grier, -griest)

  1. feeling or expressing annoyance, animosity, or resentment; enraged
  2. suggestive of anger: angry clouds
  3. severely inflamed: an angry sore


ˈangrily adv USAGE
It was formerly considered incorrect to talk about being angry at a person, but this use is now acceptable

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сердитый, разгневанный, гневный, раздраженный, грозный, воспаленный, зловещий

прилагательное

- сердитый, гневный; яростный; раздражённый

- воспалённый, покрасневший, красный (о ране, язве и т. п.)
- штормовой, бушующий, бурный, грозовой (о море, небе, облаках и т. п.)

Мои примеры

Словосочетания

an angry, ringing denial of the charges — гневное, громкое отрицание обвинений  
the angry man was frothing at the mouth — разгневанный мужчина брызгал пеной изо рта  
angry expression — злое выражение  
angry face — злой вид  
fomentation of angry passions — разжигание злых страстей  
to make an angry gesture — недовольно повести плечами  
angry mob — озлобленная толпа  
angry mood — сердитое настроение  
to pacify the angry crowd — успокоить разгневанную толпу  
to become / get angry — рассердиться  
shoals of angry letters — множество гневных писем  
in an angry strain — в сердитом тоне  

Примеры с переводом

What made you so angry?

Что вас так разозлило? / С чего ты такой сердитый?

Sometimes she gets me so angry!

Иногда она так меня бесит!

I hope you’re not angry with me.

Надеюсь, ты на меня не сердишься.

‘Please don’t be angry with me,’ she said.

— Пожалуйста, не сердись на меня, — сказала она.

I’ve never seen her look so angry.

Я никогда не видел ее такой сердитой.

He was beginning to get angry.

Он уже начинал сердиться.

Joey reacted angrily.

Джо гневно отреагировал.

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Angry workers were responsible for the sabotage of the machines.

…the salesclerk showed great reserve in dealing with the unreasonable demands of the angry customer…

It’s perfectly possible to get your message across (=communicate what you want to say) without being so angry.

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Возможные однокоренные слова

angrily  — сердито, гневно
angriness  — гнев, ярость, воспаление, покраснение

Формы слова

adjective
срав. степ. (comparative): angrier
прев. степ. (superlative): angriest

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