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an⋅gry

[ang-gree]
–adjective, -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. Chiefly New England 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.

Origin:
1275–1325; ME. See anger, -y 1


an⋅gri⋅ly, adverb
an⋅gri⋅ness, noun


1. irate, incensed, enraged, infuriated, furious, mad; provoked, irritated.


1. calm.
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an·gry   (āng'grē)   
adj.   an·gri·er, an·gri·est
  1. Feeling or showing anger; incensed or enraged: angry at a rude neighbor; angry with a salesclerk.

  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 U.S. Inflamed and painful: an angry sore.


[Middle English angri, from anger, anger; see anger.]
an'gri·ly adv., an'gri·ness n.
Synonyms: 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 act.
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Word Origin & History

angry 
1360, from anger + -y (see anger). Originally "full of trouble, vexatious;" sense of "enraged, irate" is from c.1386. The phrase angry young man dates to 1941 but was popularized in ref. to the play "Look Back in Anger" (produced 1956) though it does not occur in that work. "There are three words in the English language that end in -gry. Two of them are angry and hungry. What is the third?" There is no third (except some extremely obscure ones). Richard Lederer calls this "one of the most outrageous and time-wasting linguistic hoaxes in our nation's history" and traces it to a New York TV quiz show from early 1975.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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