angry
//ˈæŋ.ɡɹi//
Forms
- Comparative
- angrier
- Superlative
- angriest
- Plural
- angries
Definitions
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.Inflamed and painful.
- The broken glass left two angry cuts across my arm.
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.
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