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ANGRY (angrier, angriest)
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, angriest Dictionary entry overview: What does angry mean?
• ANGRY (adjective)
The adjective ANGRY has 3 senses:
1. feeling or showing anger
2. (of the elements) as if showing violent anger
3. severely inflamed and painful
Familiarity information: ANGRY used as an adjective is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
| Declension: comparative and superlative |
Superlative: angriest
Sense 1
Meaning:
Feeling or showing anger
Context example:
sending angry letters to the papers
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
Synonyms:
angry; furious; raging; tempestuous; wild
Context example:
the raging sea
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
Context example:
an angry sore
Similar:
unhealthy (not in or exhibiting good health in body or mind)
Context examples
I was not angry with them; I was more afraid of them, as if I were cast away among creatures with whom I had no community of nature.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Wife, said the fisherman, I don’t like to go to him again, for perhaps he will be angry; we ought to be easy with this pretty cottage to live in.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
He could not be angry; yet he had to do something.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
This made Dorothy so very angry that she picked up the bucket of water that stood near and dashed it over the Witch, wetting her from head to foot.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
Never in all his life had he been so vilely treated, and never in all his life had he been so angry.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
"Yes, very selfish," continued Amy, in a calm, cool voice, twice as effective just then as an angry one.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
As Martin read, he grew angry.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Lestrade shot an angry glance at my companion.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
And sometimes the men they took to show them the way never came back, till the people became angry and planned a great plan.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Lestrade’s face had begun to grow red and angry.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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