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angry

//ˈæŋ.ɡɹi//

Adjective

A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Note for angry

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Forms

Adjective

A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

Comparative
angrier
Superlative
angriest

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Plural
angries

Definitions

Adjective

A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

  1. 1.Displaying or feeling anger.

    • An angry mob started looting the warehouse.
    • Cone, who once called himself “the angriest theologian in America,” is still angry.
    • I kept my window rolled up, eyes on the road, probably making the pickup man angrier with my silence.
  2. 2.Inflamed and painful.

    • The broken glass left two angry cuts across my arm.
  3. 3.Dark and stormy, menacing.

    • Angry clouds raced across the sky.
    • When she and her sister were away at Williamsburg, Nancy and I were more like founderers on a raft adrift in an angry sea.

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

  1. 1.An angry person.(informal)

    • The big question is who gets what part of the party? Howard's angry, he'll get the angries.
    • Nah.that hasn't been said anywhere by anyone except a few malcontents. On the contrary, the angries wish us to accept what they say at face value and come unglued when we don't...

Frequency

Overall

Common· #1733

By learning goal

Everyday conversation
Uncommon
General reading & writing
Common
Academic
Rare
Literature
Uncommon

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Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂enǵʰ-

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Indo-European *h₂énǵʰosder.

Proto-Germanic *angazaz

Old Norse angrbor.

Middle English anger

Proto-Indo-European *-kos

Proto-Germanic *-gaz

Proto-West Germanic *-g

Old English -iġ

Middle English -y

Middle English angry

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