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English

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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishangry; seeanger.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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angry (comparativeangrierormoreangry,superlativeangriestormostangry)

  1. Displaying or feelinganger.
    His face becameangry.
    Anangry mob started looting the warehouse.
    • 1897 December (indicated as1898),Winston Churchill, chapter V, inThe Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.:The Macmillan Company; London:Macmillan & Co., Ltd.,→OCLC:
      Then we relapsed into a discomfited silence, and wished we were anywhere else. But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud, and with such a hearty enjoyment that instead of gettingangry and more mortified we began to laugh ourselves, and instantly felt better.
    • 2018 April 30, John Blake, “Remembering the theologian who took on the hypocrisy of the white church”, inCNN‎[1]:
      Cone, who once called himself “theangriest theologian in America,” is stillangry.
    • 2019 March 6, Drachinifel, 41:58 from the start, inThe Battle of Samar (Alternate History) - Bring on the Battleships!‎[2], archived fromthe original on20 July 2022:
      But, statistically-speaking, there is significantly-greater-than-even odds of the American forces coming out victorious - as I said, largely due to, one, the sheer technology advantage of the radar and fire-control systems, and also two, the almighty swarm ofFletchers. Never, ever underestimate the firepower of an almighty swarm ofangryFletchers.
    • 2024 June 10, Thomas Lake, “17 years later, I still remember this act of kindness from another driver”, inCNN‎[3]:
      I kept my window rolled up, eyes on the road, probably making the pickup manangrier with my silence.
    • 2025 May 16, Kristen Rogers, “The surprising benefits of going to bed angry at your partner”, inCNN‎[4]:
      All considered, never going to bedangry sounds like a good rule to live by. But it isn’t always useful, Romanoff said.
  2. (said about a wound or a rash)Inflamed andpainful.
    The broken glass left twoangry cuts across my arm.
  3. (figuratively, said about the elements, like the sky or the sea) Dark and stormy,menacing.
    Angry clouds raced across the sky.
    • 1756,Christopher Smart, “Ode II”, inThe Book of the Epodes, translation of original byHorace:
      […]nor dreads he theangry sea[…]
    • 1997, Kelly Joyce Neff,Dear Companion: The Inner Life of Martha Jefferson, page92:
      When she and her sister were away at Williamsburg, Nancy and I were more like founderers on a raft adrift in anangry sea.

Usage notes

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  • The comparativemore angry and the superlativemost angry are also occasionally found.
  • The sense “feeling anger” is construed withwith orat when the object is a person:I’m angry with/at my boss. It is construed withat orabout when the object is a situation:I’m angry at/about what he said. When both a person and a situation are given, the latter is construed withfor instead:I’m angry with/at my boss for what he said. But, as with many other words for emotions, sentences with an unmarked subordinate clause are also possible:Are you angry I'm here with you?

Synonyms

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Derived terms

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Translations

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displaying anger
inflamed and painful

Verb

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angry (third-person singular simple presentangries,present participleangrying,simple past and past participleangried)

  1. (transitive, obsolete) Toanger.
    • 1578,The Cathechisme or Manner How to Instruct and Teach Children and Others in the Christian Faith. […], London: […] Henrie Middleton, for Iohn Harison:
      Onely they that repent, and are verie ſorie that they haueangried 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.
    • 1580,Iohn Stow (collector),The Chronicles of England, from Brute vnto This Present Yeare of Christ 1580., London: […] Ralphe Newberie, […], page512:
      The King ſent to theLondoners requeſting to borrowe of them one thouſande pounde, whiche they ſtoutely denyed, and alſo euil entreated, bette and néere hand ſlew a certainLumbard that woulde haue lent the King the ſayde ſumme, which when the King heard he was maruellouſlyangried, and calling togither almoſt all the nobles of the lande, hée opened to them the malitiouſneſſe of theLondoners, and cõplayned of theyr preſumption, the whyche noble men gaue counſell, that their inſolencie ſhoulde with ſpéede be oppreſſed, and theyr pride abated.
    • 1609, William Biddulph,The Trauels of Certaine Englishmen into Africa, Asia, Troy, Bythinia, Thracia, and to the Blacke Sea. […], London: […] Th. Haueland, for W. Aspley, […], pages49–50:
      For when theArabians being offended withHeraclius for denying them their pay, and for his religion had ſeuered themſelues from him,Mahomet ioyned himſelfe to theangried ſouldiers, and ſtirred vp their minds againſt their Emperour, and encouraged them in their defection.
    • 1611, Iohn Iackson,The Soule Is Immortall: or, Certaine Discourses Defending the Immortalitie of the Soule; Against the Limmes of Sathan: to Wit, Saduces, Anabaptistes, Atheists, and Such Like of the Hellish Crue of Aduersaries, London: […] W. W. for Robert Boulton […], page173:
      For verily the common ſort (OSocratus my friende,) is ingratefull, full of mockes and ſcornes, vaine, ſooneangried, cruel, enuious, rude, heaped full of troubles and trifles: and whoſeuer doth familiarly acquaint himſelfe with them, & conuerſe amongſt them, doth at the length, become farre more miſerable then they be themſelues.
    • 1625, R[obert] V[ase],Ionah’s Contestation about His Gourd. In a Sermon Deliuered at Pauls Crosse. Septemb. 19. 1624., London: […] I. L. for Robert Bird, […], page27:
      I doe well to be angry. It was a milde ſaying ofAuguſtus the Emperour to one of his ſouldiers deſirous to be diſmiſſed his armie, but wanting a iuſt and honeſt excuſe to his friends at his returne home, ſay, ſaith the Emperour, that I haveangried thee.
    • 1631, [Richard Smith],A Conference of the Catholike and Protestante Doctrine with the Expresse Words of Holie Scripture. Which Is the Second Parte of the Prudentiall Balance of Religion. VVherein Is Clearely Shewed, That in More than 260. Points of Controuersie, Catholicks Agree with the Holie Scripture, both in Words and Sense: and Protestants Disagree in Both, and Depraue Both the Sayings, Words, and Sense of Scripture. […], […] Doway, […], page72:
      It is the doctrin of the Scripture. that our good works are alwaies ſtained with much vncleanes, with which God may be iuſtly offended andangried: ſo farre are they from purchazing vs his good will, or prouoking his liberalitie towards vs.
    • 1642,Thomas Fuller, “The Harlot”, inThe Holy State, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Roger Daniel for John Williams, […],→OCLC, book V (The Profane State), paragraph 3,page358:
      And what Potiphars wife ſaid with her tongue, ſhe ſaith unto the paſſengers with her geſture and gate,Come lie with me; and nothingangrieth her ſo much, as when modeſt men affect a deafneſſe and will not heare, or a dulneſſe and will not underſtand the language of her behaviour.
    • 1650[i.e., 1649], [William Brough],Sacred Principles, Services, and Soliloquies: or, A Manual of Devotions Made up of Three Parts: […], London: […] J. G. for John Clark, […], page64:
      Even thy Creatures, how terrible are they, O Lord! all hearts are afraid of thy tempeſts, and melt at thy ſtormes: O let me in this glaſſe of their terror ſee the dreadfull face of thyangried Majeſtie! at which the depths themſelves doe tremble, and the foundations of the world are diſcovered, even as the blaſt of the breath of thy noſtrils, O Lord! And let me never preſume to exalt my ſelfe againſt thee, but ever tremble before thy face.
    • 1655, [Madeleine de Scudéry] (indicated as “Monsieur de Scudery”), translated byF. G.,The Fifth and Last Volume ofArtamenes, or The Grand Cyrus, That Excellent New Romance: Being the Ninth and Tenth Parts, Which Finish the Whole Work, London: […] Humphrey Moseley […] and Thomas Dring […], page28:
      Yet I am both (replyed ſhe) for my joyes at what he hath done, proceeds principally from hisangrying me.
    • 1658,Honorè D’Urfe, translated by [John Davies],The Third and Last Volume ofAstrea a Romance, London: […] Hum: Moseley, Tho. Dring, and H. Herringman, […], page284:
      Palanice cannot ſpeak untoCercinea in behalf ofClorian, withoutangrying me in the perſon ofAlcander, and unleſſe ſhe oblige me to raviſhAmilcar from her;[…]
    • 1673,England’s Alarm, and a Warning to London, Being a Wonderful Sermon, Preached in the Year 1673, by an Eminent Minister of Christ College, Cambridge, on the Dreadful Conflagration in the Year 1666. […], published1795, page24:
      King Ahab was a good ſervant of the devil, but Ahab hadangried God, and God was reſolved he would ſpare him no longer, but cut him off.
    • 1685,Edward Pococke,A Commentary on the Prophecy of Hosea, Oxford, […], page708:
      What doth the repeating thoſe verbs import, butangrying bitterly or grievouſly?
    • 1689,A Supplement, 1689. to a Former Treatise, Concerning the East-India Trade, Printed 1681., page 8:
      But the truth was, thoſe former Committees durſt not attempt ſuch a change of their Affairs, for fear of the charge of ſuch a remove; but eſpecially for fear ofangrying theMogul, whoſe people gained exceedingly by our ſhips riding in their Ports, as well as by our Trade, and were out of fear ofBombay, while it was in ſuch a forlorn neglected condition;[…]
    • 1689,Philip Ayres,Mythologia Ethica: or, Three Centuries of Æsopian Fables. In English Prose. Done from Æsop, Phædrus, Camerarius, and All Other Eminent Authors on This Subject. […], London: […] Thomas Howkins, […], page161:
      ITangrying a Country-man to ſee his two Hogs often fighting together, he killed one of them;[…]
    • 1690,Casuistical Morning-Exercises. The Fourth Volume. By Several Ministers in and about London, Preached in October, 1689., London: […] James Astwood for John Dunton, […]:
      And this End of God is now made void when ſinners repent not: Men are ſometimes grieved, and ſometimesangried when they are diſappointed in their End; o is God ſaid to be: He complains often of this in the Scriptures, when he is diſappointed in the End of his Corrections;[…]
    • 1814, [Isaac D’Israeli],Quarrels of Authors; or, Some Memoirs of Our Literary History, Including Specimens of Controversy to the Reign of Elizabeth, volume III, London: […] John Murray, […], page30:
      Our temperate Sage, thoughangried at that spirit of contradiction which he had raised, must, however, have sometimes smiled both on his advocates and his adversaries!

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Fromanger +‎-y, fromOld Norseangr(“affliction, sorrow”).

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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angry (superlativeangriest)

  1. Angry; displayingangriness(usually of actions)
  2. Easilyannoyed or angered;irous orspiteful.
  3. Severe,vexatious,ferocious,painful.

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