angry
pronunciation
How to pronounce angry in British English:
UK [ˈæŋɡri]
How to pronounce angry in American English:
US [ˈæŋɡri]
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- Adjective:
- feeling or showing anger
- (of the elements) as if showing violent anger
- severely inflamed and painful
Word Origin
- angry (adj.)
- late 14c., from anger (n.) + -y (2). Originally "full of trouble, vexatious;" sense of "enraged, irate" also is from late 14c. The Old Norse adjective was ongrfullr "sorrowful," and Middle English had angerful "anxious, eager" (mid-13c.). The phrase angry young man dates to 1941 but was popularized in reference to the play "Look Back in Anger" (produced 1956) though it does not occur in that work. "There are three words in the English language that end in -gry. Two of them are angry and hungry. What is the third?" There is no third (except some extremely obscure ones). Richard Lederer calls this "one of the most outrageous and time-wasting linguistic hoaxes in our nation's history" and traces it to a New York TV quiz show from early 1975.
Synonym
mad wrathful enraged furious incensed livid wroth heated sore raging ireful provoked infuriate irate infuriated indignant
explosive huffy short-tempered bilious galled quick-tempered peevish petulant spleenful testy splenetic cross touchy bad-tempered nettled miffed displeased choleric irascible surly hot-headed irritable hot-tempered ill-tempered
Example
- 1. I was angry because he cheated me .
- 2. When you 're angry , simply attaching the word " anger " to your feeling makes you less angry .
- 3. Powerful , angry customers could spur big changes .
- 4. Do other drivers make you feel angry ?
- 5. There is more to the story than an angry collision between greek profligacy and german moral superiority .