Dictionary
Thesaurus
Reference
Translate
Web
Related Searches
on Ask.com
Synonyms
Nearby Entries
angry - 4 dictionary results

an⋅gry

  [ang-gree]
Use angry in a Sentence
–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

Related forms:
an⋅gri⋅ly, adverb
an⋅gri⋅ness, noun

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

Antonyms:
1. calm.
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2009.
Cite This Source Link To angry
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.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
Cite This Source

Angry

An"gry\, a. [Compar. Angrier; superl. 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's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
Cite This Source
Language Translation for : angry
Spanish: enfadado,
German: zornig,
Japanese: 怒った
More Translations »

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
Cite This Source
Search another word or see angry on Thesaurus | Reference