anger
pronunciation
How to pronounce anger in British English:
UK [ˈæŋɡə(r)]
How to pronounce anger in American English:
US [ˈæŋɡər]
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- Noun:
- a strong emotion; a feeling that is oriented toward some real or supposed grievance
- the state of being angry
- belligerence aroused by a real or supposed wrong (personified as one of the deadly sins)
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- Verb:
- make angry
- become angry
Word Origin
- anger
- anger: [12] The original notion contained in this word was of ‘distress’ or ‘affliction’; ‘rage’ did not begin to enter the picture until the 13th century. English acquired it from Old Norse angr ‘grief’, and it is connected with a group of words which contain connotations of ‘constriction’: German and Dutch eng (and Old English enge) mean ‘narrow’, Greek ánkhein meant ‘squeeze, strangle’ (English gets angina from it), and Latin angustus (source of English anguish) also meant ‘narrow’. All these forms point back to an Indo-European base *angg- ‘narrow’.=> angina, anguish
- anger (v.)
- c. 1200, "to irritate, annoy, provoke," from Old Norse angra "to grieve, vex, distress; to be vexed at, take offense with," from Proto-Germanic *angus (cognates: Old English enge "narrow, painful," Middle Dutch enghe, Gothic aggwus "narrow"), from PIE root *angh- "tight, painfully constricted, painful" (cognates: Sanskrit amhu- "narrow," amhah "anguish;" Armenian anjuk "narrow;" Lithuanian ankstas "narrow;" Greek ankhein "to squeeze," ankhone "a strangling;" Latin angere "to throttle, torment;" Old Irish cum-ang "straitness, want"). In Middle English, also of physical pain. Meaning "excite to wrath, make angry" is from late 14c. Related: Angered; angering.
- anger (n.)
- mid-13c., "distress, suffering; anguish, agony," also "hostile attitude, ill will, surliness," from Old Norse angr "distress, grief. sorrow, affliction," from the same root as anger (v.). Sense of "rage, wrath" is early 14c. Old Norse also had angr-gapi "rash, foolish person;" angr-lauss "free from care;" angr-lyndi "sadness, low spirits."
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Example
- 1. Feel the pain frustration and anger .
- 2. Their united anger sparked the cedar revolution that spring .
- 3. Anger is never without a reason but seldom a good one .
- 4. He is not one to channel anger .
- 5. Neither is stimulus of old factories or yelling in frustration and anger .