angry

English

Etymology

From Middle English

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈæŋ.ɡri/

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• Rhymes: -æŋɡri

Adjective

angry (comparative angrier, superlative angriest)

1. Displaying or feeling anger.

   His face became angry.

   An angry mob started looting the warehouse.

2. (said about a wound or a rash) Inflamed and painful.

   The broken glass left two angry cuts across my arm.

3. (figuratively, said about the sky or the sea) Dark and stormy, menacing.

   Angry clouds raced across the sky.

   • 1756, Christopher Smart, “Ode II”, in The Book of the Epodes, translation of original by Horace:

     […] nor dreads he the angry sea […]

Synonyms

• (displaying anger): mad, enraged, wrathful, furious, apoplectic; irritated, annoyed, vexed, pissed off, cheesed off
• See also Wikisaurus:angry

Derived terms

• angrily
• angriness

Translations

displaying anger

American Sign Language: Claw5@NearNose-PalmBack Arabic: غاضب (ar) (ghāDib) Belarusian: сярдзіты (be) (sjardzíty) Breton: droug en unan bennak (in somebody) Bulgarian: ядосан (bg) (jadosan) m., разгневен (bg) (razgnéven), сърдит (bg) (sǎrdít) Catalan: enfadat (ca), enutjat (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 恼怒 (cmn), 恼怒 (cmn) (nǎonù), 忿怒 (cmn) (fènnù), 生氣 (cmn), 生气 (cmn) (shēngqì) Min Nan: 受氣 (siū-khì) Danish: vred (da), sur (da) Dutch: kwaad (nl), boos (nl) Esperanto: kolera (eo) Finnish: vihainen (fi) French: fâché (fr) m., fâchée (fr) f., en colère (fr) Old French: irié, irous German: böse (de), verärgert (de), zornig (de) Greek: θυμωμένος (el) (thimoménos) m. Greenlandic: ninngappoq (kl) Hebrew: סר (he) (sar) Hindi: नाराज़ (hi) (nārāz), क्रोधित (hi) (krodhit) Hungarian: haragos (hu), dühös (hu), mérges (hu), bősz (hu) Icelandic: reiður (is) m., reið (is) f., reitt (is) n. Ido: iracoza Indonesian: marah (id) Irish: expressed by a phrase using the noun fearg (ga) f. "anger", cochallach (ga) Italian: arrabbiato (it) Japanese: 怒った (ja) (おこった, okotta) Kazakh: ашулы (kk) (aşulı)

Korean: 화난 (ko) (hwanan) Krio: vex Kurdish: توڕه‌ (ku) (ture), زیز (ku) (ziz) Latgalian: sirdeigs, špetnys Latin: iratus (la) Latvian: dusmīgs, pikts (lv) Lithuanian: piktas (lt) Persian: خشمگین (fa) (xašmgin) Polish: zły (pl) Portuguese: raivoso m., raivosa f., bravo (pt) Rotuman: feke Russian: сердитый (ru) (serdítyj), злой (ru) (zloj), разгневанный (ru) (razgnévannyj), (e.g. tone) гневный (ru) (gnévnyj) Scots: fasht Scottish Gaelic: fiadhaich (gd) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: гневан (sh), гњеван (sh) Roman: gnevan (sh), gnjevan (sh) Slovene: jezen m., jezna f., jezno n. Spanish: enojado (es), enfadado (es) Swedish: arg (sv) Telugu: కోపం, ఆగ్రహం, క్రోధం Thai: โกรธ (th) (gròht) Tok Pisin: belihat, kros Turkish: kızgın (tr) Ukrainian: сердитий (uk) (serdýtyj) Urdu: ناراض (ur) (nārāz) Uzbek: jahldor (uz) Vietnamese: tức giận (vi) West Frisian: lilk (fy)

See also

• Anger on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Anger

Anagrams

• rangy

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Middle English

Etymology

anger +‎ -y, from Old Norse angr (“affliction, sorrow”)

Adjective

angry

1. Vexatious.
2. Enraged, irate.