angry
adjective
- being in a state of strong disagreement
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈæŋ.ɡɹi/ / [ˈæŋ.ɡɹʷɪi̯] / /ˈeɪ̯ŋ.ɡɹi/
adj
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂enǵʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *h₂énǵʰosder. Proto-Germanic *angazaz Old Norse angrbor. Middle English anger Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y Middle English angry English angry From Middle English angry; see anger.
- Displaying or feeling anger.
“His face became angry.”
“An angry mob started looting the warehouse.”
- Inflamed and painful.
“The broken glass left two angry cuts across my arm.”
- Dark and stormy, menacing.
“Angry clouds raced across the sky.”
“[…]nor dreads he the angry sea[…]”
noun
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂enǵʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *h₂énǵʰosder. Proto-Germanic *angazaz Old Norse angrbor. Middle English anger Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y Middle English angry English angry From Middle English angry; see anger.
- An angry person.
“Maybe I just have a thick skin from years of newsgroup use, but hey, it is a forum where all kinds of people come, and its not like you have to take the anonymous kooks or the angries too seriously (they don't live next door to me or hang out in my office).”
“He knows the young buffalos who bitch beyond reasonable bitching but still do the job, and he knows the angries, the men who never seem to feel good about themselves because of the seemingly endless struggle against an unrealistic bureaucracy that demands so much of them and offers so little in the way of reward or compensation. After all, they are "only" cops.”
verb
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂enǵʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *h₂énǵʰosder. Proto-Germanic *angazaz Old Norse angrbor. Middle English anger Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y Middle English angry English angry From Middle English angry; see anger.
- To anger.
“Onely they that repent, and are verie ſorie that they haue angried God with their ſinnes, and yet truſt that they are forgiuẽ them for Chriſtes ſake, and that the reſt of their weakeneſſe and vnperfectnes is couered with his deth & paſſion, who alſo deſire to goe forwarde and growe more and more in holy life & conuerſation.”
“The King ſent to the Londoners requeſting to borrowe of them one thouſande pounde, whiche they ſtoutely denyed, and alſo euil entreated, bette and néere hand ſlew a certain Lumbard that woulde haue lent the King the ſayde ſumme, which when the King heard he was maruellouſly angried, and calling togither almoſt all the nobles of the lande, hée opened to them the malitiouſneſſe of the Londoners, and cõplayned of theyr preſumption, the whyche noble men gaue counſell, that their inſolencie ſhoulde with ſpéede be oppreſſed, and theyr pride abated.”