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ANGRY
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Irregular inflected forms: angrier , angriest
I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Feeling or showing anger
Example:
sending angry letters to the papers
Classified under:
Similar:
aggravated; provoked (incited, especially deliberately, to anger)
angered; enraged; furious; infuriated; maddened (marked by extreme anger)
black (marked by anger or resentment or hostility)
choleric; irascible (characterized by anger)
hot under the collar (very angry)
huffy; mad; sore (roused to anger)
incensed; indignant; outraged; umbrageous (angered at something unjust or wrong)
irate; ireful (feeling or showing extreme anger)
livid (furiously angry)
smoldering; smouldering (showing scarcely suppressed anger)
wrathful; wroth; wrothful (vehemently incensed and condemnatory)
Antonym:
unangry (not angry)
Derivation:
anger (belligerence aroused by a real or supposed wrong (personified as one of the deadly sins))
anger (a strong emotion; a feeling that is oriented toward some real or supposed grievance)
anger; angriness (the state of being angry)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(of the elements) as if showing violent anger
Example:
the raging sea
Synonyms:
angry; furious; raging; tempestuous; wild
Classified under:
Similar:
stormy ((especially of weather) affected or characterized by storms or commotion)
Derivation:
angriness (the state of being angry)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Severely inflamed and painful
Example:
an angry sore
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
unhealthy (not in or exhibiting good health in body or mind)
Context examples:
That would account for the angry return, and also for the girl’s denial that anything had occurred.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“It’s childish,” I laughed later, “for him to do such things, and for me to grow angry over them, for that matter.”
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
I was chilled and unnerved, and angry with the Professor for taking me on such an errand and with myself for coming.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Apparently, the universe is playing tricks on us by giving us one angry aspect (expressed above—Mars opposition Uranus) and a lovely four-star aspect (Venus conjunct Jupiter).
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Our people, who discovered the cause of my mirth, bore me company in laughing, at which the old fellow was fool enough to be angry and out of countenance.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
How angry and how diverted he would be!
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
The squire, however, took no notice of their angry faces, but continued with his master's message.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Vexed as Edmund was with his mother and aunt, he was still more angry with himself.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Poor devil, how could I be angry when I saw him lying in such a plight before me?
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But it seemed as if the woman had something else that she would say, for she was angry that he should be sent away.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
