Word Study
angry
CIDE DICTIONARY
angry, a. [See Anger.].
- Troublesome; vexatious; rigorous. [1913 Webster]"God had provided a severe and angry education to chastise the forwardness of a young spirit." [1913 Webster]
- Inflamed and painful, as a sore. [1913 Webster]
- Touched with anger; under the emotion of anger; feeling resentment; enraged; -- followed generally by with before a person, and at before a thing. [1913 Webster]"Be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves." [1913 Webster]"Wherefore should God be angry at thy voice?" [1913 Webster]
- 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. Prov. xxv. 23. [1913 Webster]
- Red. [1913 Webster]"Sweet rose, whose hue, angry and brave." [1913 Webster]
- Sharp; keen; stimulated. [1913 Webster]"I never ate with angrier appetite." [1913 Webster]
Syn. -- Passionate; resentful; irritated; irascible; indignant; provoked; enraged; incensed; exasperated; irate; hot; raging; furious; wrathful; wroth; choleric; inflamed; infuriated.
OXFORD DICTIONARY
angry, adj. (angrier, angriest)
1 feeling or showing anger; extremely displeased or resentful.
2 (of a wound, sore, etc.) inflamed, painful.
3 suggesting or seeming to show anger (an angry sky).
1 feeling or showing anger; extremely displeased or resentful.
2 (of a wound, sore, etc.) inflamed, painful.
3 suggesting or seeming to show anger (an angry sky).
Derivative
angrily adv.
Etymology
ME, f. ANGER + -Y(1)
THESAURUS
angry
acid, acrimonious, aggravated, algetic, anarchic, angered, annoyed, blustering, blusterous, blustery, bothered, browned off, browned-off, bugged, burning, burnt-up, caustic, chafed, chaotic, choleric, cloudy, corrosive, cross, cyclonic, dirty, discontented, disturbed, enraged, exasperated, feeling evil, festering, fiery, foul, frantic, frenzied, fuming, furious, galled, griped, heated, hellish, in a temper, incensed, indignant, inflamed, infuriate, infuriated, insensate, irascible, irate, ireful, irked, irritable, irritated, livid, mad, maddened, miffed, mindless, nettled, orgasmic, orgastic, out of humor, out of sorts, out of temper, pandemoniac, peeved, perturbed, piqued, pissed, pissed off, pissed-off, provoked, put out, raging, rainy, rankling, ravening, raving, raw, red, red-faced, resentful, riled, riled up, riley, rip-roaring, roiled, ruffled, sensitive, shirty, smarting, sore, splenetic, storming, stormy, tempestuous, tender, ticked off, tingling, tornadic, troubled, troublous, tumultuous, turbulent, typhonic, typhoonish, up in arms, uproarious, upset, uptight, vexed, waxy, wild, wild-eyed, worked up, wrathful, wrathy, wroth, wrought up, wrought-upROGET THESAURUS
angry
Resentment
N resentment, displeasure, animosity, anger, wrath, indignation, exasperation, bitter resentment, wrathful indignation, pique, umbrage, huff, miff, soreness, dudgeon, acerbity, virulence, bitterness, acrimony, asperity, spleen, gall, heart-burning, heart-swelling, rankling, ill humor, bad humor, ill temper, bad temper, irascibility, ill blood, revenge, excitement, irritation, warmth, bile, choler, ire, fume, pucker, dander, ferment, ebullition, towering passion, acharnement, angry mood, taking, pet, tiff, passion, fit, tantrums, burst, explosion, paroxysm, storm, rage, fury, desperation, violence, fire and fury, vials of wrath, gnashing of teeth, hot blood, high words, scowl, sulks, affront, provocation, offense, indignity, grudge, crow to pluck, bone to pick, sore subject, casus belli, ill turn, outrage, Furies, Eumenides, buffet, slap in the face, box on the ear, rap on the knuckles, angry, wrath, irate, ireful, wrathful, cross, Achillean, sulky, bitter, virulent, acrimonious &c (discourteous), violent, warm, burning, boiling, boiling over, fuming, raging, foaming, foaming at the mouth, convulsed with rage, offended, waxy, acharne, wrought, worked up, indignant, hurt, sore, set against, fierce, wild, rageful, furious, mad with rage, fiery, infuriate, rabid, savage, relentless, flushed with anger, flushed with rage, in a huff, in a stew, in a fume, in a pucker, in a passion, in a rage, in a fury, in a taking, in a way, on one's high ropes, up in arms, in high dudgeon, angrily, in the height of passion, in the heat of passion, in the heat of the moment, Int, tantaene animis coelestibus irae!, marry come up!, zounds!, 'sdeath!, one's blood being up, one's back being up, one's monkey being up, fervens difficili bile jecur, the gorge rising, eyes flashing fire, the blood rising, the blood boiling, haeret lateri lethalis arundo, beware the fury of a patient man, furor arma ministrat, ira furor brevis est, quem Jupiter vult perdere dementat prius, What, drunk with choler?.Irascibility
N irascibility, irascibleness, temper, crossness, susceptibility, procacity, petulance, irritability, tartness, acerbity, protervity, pugnacity, excitability, bad temper, fiery temper, crooked temper, irritable, temper, genus irritabile, hot blood, ill humor, asperity, churlishness, huff, a word and a blow, Sir Fretful Plagiary, brabbler, Tartar, shrew, vixen, virago, termagant, dragon, scold, Xantippe, porcupine, spitfire, fire eater, fury, irascible, bad-tempered, ill-tempered, irritable, susceptible, excitable, thin-skinned, fretful, fidgety, on the fret, hasty, overhasty, quick, warm, hot, testy, touchy, techy, tetchy, like touchwood, like tinder, huffy, pettish, petulant, waspish, snappish, peppery, fiery, passionate, choleric, shrewish, sudden and quick in quarrel, querulous, captious, moodish, quarrelsome, contentious, disputatious, pugnacious, cantankerous, exceptious, restiff, churlish, cross, cross as crabs, cross as two sticks, cross as a cat, cross as a dog, cross as the tongs, fractious, peevish, acari=atre, in a bad temper, sulky, angry, resentful, resentive, vindictive, Int, pish!, a vieux comptes nouvelles disputes, quamvis tegatur proditur vultu furor, vino tortus et ira.For further exploring for "angry" in Webster Dictionary Online