Angry

Definition: Angry

Angry

Adjective

1. Feeling or showing anger; "angry at the weather"; "angry customers"; "an angry silence"; "sending angry letters to the papers".

2. (of the elements) as if showing violent anger; "angry clouds on the horizon"; "furious winds"; "the raging sea".

3. Severely inflamed and painful; "an angry sore".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "angry" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Note: Angry \An"gry\, adjective. [Comparative Angrier; superlative Angriest.]. (references)

Literature

Multilingual Slang

Slang

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Angry

Irascibility

Cross, cross as crabs, cross as two sticks, cross as a cat, cross as a dog, cross as the tongs; fractious, peevish, acari_tre. in a bad temper; sulky; a; angry. resentful, resentive; vindictive.

Verb: be irascible; Adjective: have a temper; Noun: have a devil in one; fire up; (be angry).

Resentment

Excitement, irritation; warmth, bile, choler, ire, fume, pucker, dander, ferment, ebullition; towering passion, acharnement, angry mood, taking, pet, tiff, passion, fit, tantrums.

Adjective: angry, wrath, irate; ireful, wrathful; cross; (irascible); Achillean; sulky; a; bitter, virulent; acrimonious; (discourteous); violent.

Crosswords: Angry

Angry, insecure, confused (American Beauty; writing credit: Alan Ball)

Mommy's very angry. (The Lost World: Jurassic Park; writing credit: David Koepp)

To be angry is to be human (Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones; writing credit: George Lucas)

When I get angry, Mr. Bigglesworth gets upset (Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery; writing credit: Mike Myers)

Be rary of wousing a rizard's wrath - rousing a rizard's - Be wary of making a magician angry! (The Last Unicorn; writing credit: Peter S. Beagle)

I don't know why you gotta be Angry All The Time (Angry All The Time; performing artist: Tim McGraw)

Now I tell meh self dem man go get angry (Who Let The Dogs Out; performing artist: Baha Men)

Turnaround, Every now and then I get a little bit angry and I know I've got to get out and cry (TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE HEART; performing artist: Bonnie Tyler)

Or he'll grow to be an angry young man some day (In the Ghetto; performing artist: Elvis Presley)

Now this angry little girl (Big Machine; performing artist: Goo Goo Dolls)

When angry, count four! when very angry, swear. (references; author: Mark Twain)

An angry person is seldom reasonable; a reasonable person is seldom angry. (references; author: unknown)

Don't be angry at a friend who told your secret, for neither could you keep it to yourself. (references; author: unknown)

Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)

The Last Angry Man (1974)

Angry Fist (1974)

Climb an Angry Mountain (1972)

Walk the Angry Beach (1968)

Angry All The Time (performing artist: Tim McGraw)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• A Is for Angry (reference)

• Anger Busting 101: The New ABC's for Angry Men & the Women Who Love Them (reference)

• Angry Blonde (reference)

• From Defiance to Cooperation: Real Solutions for Transforming the Angry, Defiant, Discouraged Child (reference)

• Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Hedwig and the Angry Inch - New Line Platinum Series (reference)

• Larryboy - The Angry Eyebrows (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Hedwig and the Angry Inch [EXPLICIT LYRICS] [SOUNDTRACK] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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The "Angry Alligator". Credit: NASA.

FRAGILE Handle With Care : When you're angry, don't shake your baby...reach for help. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Woman pleading with angry man. Credit: Library of Congress.

She might be angry now, for all he knew. He concluded to let well enough alone. Credit: Library of Congress.

"The College Graduate" holding diploma standing next to soldier at attention with an angry eagle in Uncle Sam hat at the soldier's feet. Credit: Library of Congress.

Smoking a cigar, an angry President McKinley fights with Spain about the scarcity of Havana cigars due to the Spanish-American War. Credit: Library of Congress.

"The Gods are angry" / Herblock. Credit: Library of Congress.

Seven American officials of the Cananea Copper Company carrying guns on their way to a lumber yard, where George and William Metcalf, Americans, were killed by angry mob during miners' strike, Cananea, Mexico. Credit: Library of Congress.

Drawing of an angry woman. Credit: Library of Congress.

Gay is angry : gay revolution networker. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

We shall only be making each other more angry.

He turned to the angry fishermen

His nephew left the room without an angry word, notwithstanding

I perhaps did wrong to get angry.

Stephen sat down at his right and the priest at the other side of the table closed his copy of The Tablet with an angry snap and stood up.

More wonderful when angels are so angry.

And now the owner men grew angry.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Others may only be angry or irritable. (references)

Feeling angry or depressed is common and perfectly all right. (references)

Many become more energetic and stop having sudden, angry changes in moods. (references)

Civil Liberties

Macedonia

The angry mob attacked Skopje stores, burned 10 OSCE and U.N. vehicles, and attacked three foreign embassies. (references)

Human Rights

Uganda

Angry supporters of the opponent subsequently beat to death the bodyguard and four other persons who were traveling with Mulongo. (references)

Malawi

In March in the town of Mulanje, an angry mob beat to death a man charged with armed robbery following his release by authorities. (references)

Indigenous People

Bangladesh

Alfred Soren, a leader of the Santal tribe in the northern part of the country, was killed and dozens of others were injured in an attack in August 2000. According to one human rights organization, the perpetrators of the attack were Bengalis who were angry with the tribals over a land dispute. (references)

Minorities

Nigeria

In one incident on April 6, a resident reportedly announced that his penis had disappeared while members of an Evangelical Christian group were preaching door-to-door; an angry mob descended on the evangelists and burned eight of them to death. (references)

Worker Rights

Guatemala

Despite some efforts by BANDEGUA, its independent contractors, and the SITRABI union, labor relations were marred by wildcat strikes and angry confrontations between workers and management. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Being angry

Being angry

Being angry

Being angry

Of angry men

Expressions using "angry": angry about ♦ angry at ♦ angry fruit salad ♦ angry mood ♦ angry walk ♦ angry with ♦ be angry ♦ be angry at ♦ be angry with ♦ be angry with smb. ♦ become angry ♦ being angry with ♦ burst into angry words ♦ get angry ♦ get angry to ♦ get angry with ♦ getting angry ♦ grow angry ♦ he got good and angry ♦ make angry ♦ making angry ♦ the angry sea ♦ very angry. Additional references.

Beginning with "angry": angry-and-otherwise, angry-looking, Angry-of-west-midlands.

Ending with "angry": half-angry.

Albanian

i zemëruar (biliary, crabbed, crabby, crusty, embittered, indignant, mad, rampant, Wroth), i irrituar (acerbate, frustrate, frustrated, wrought up), i inatosur (annoyed, crusty, enraged, mad, rambunctious, rampageous). (various references)

Arabic 

‏محنق (furious, infuriate, wrathful), ‏مغيظ (annoying, infuriating, irritated, provoking, vexatious, vexed), ‏محتد (agitated, enraged, furious, infuriated, origin), ‏متوعد بغضب, ‏غاضب (beside himself, cross, dandified, enraged, exasperating, furious, furred, glaring, grim, grumpy, indignant, irate, livid, narky, pink, revolting, stuffy, sullen, wrathful, wroth). (various references)

Aymara

q'apisiyaña (to be angry). (various references)

Bulgarian 

сърдит (cross, gruff, high, huffish, huffy, irate, ireful, peevish, ratty, red-necked, resentful, rusty, snappish, sour, stroppy, sullen), ядосан (grumpy, mad, pissed off, shirty, sick, snotty, teed off, warm, wrathful), лют (biting, fiery, hot, peppery, pungent, salt), бурен (blusterous, blustery, boiling, darnel, dirty, fierce, heavy, roaring, rogue, rough, rugged, stormy, tearaway, tempestuous, thunderous, turbulent, vehement, violent, weed, wild). (various references)

Chinese 

艴 , 火兒 , 生氣 (mad, offended, to be enraged, to get angry, to take offense), 歜 (song), 恼怒, 憤怒 (indignant), 悻 , 悁 (impatient, sad), 奭 . (various references)

Czech

rozzlobený (cross, irate, pissed, resentful). (various references)

Danish

vred (cross). (various references)

Dutch

toornig (cross), kwaad (abuse, bad, cross, miserable, nasty, poor), boos (cross). (various references)

Esperanto

kolera (cross). (various references)

Faeroese

vera illur við (be angry). (various references)

Farsi 

قرمزشده , ورم کرده (Blown, Swollen), خشمناک (Irate), اوقات تلخ (Glum, Indignant, Stuffy), رنجیده (Glum, Indignant, Sulky), دژم , دردناک (Achy, Grievous, Painful, Sore), براشفته (Wroth). (various references)

Finnish

vihainen (angered, annoyed, mad), suuttunut (annoyed, mad), kiukkuinen (cross, irate), äkeä (cross, crusty, vehement), äkäinen (cross, fierce, ill-tempered). (various references)

French

agacant, furieux, fâché (annoyed), en colère. (various references)

Frisian

lilk (cross, nasty, ugly), gek (cross). (various references)

German

zornig (furious, irate, wrathful), böse (bad, baddie, baleful, balefully, black, black-hearted, cross, crossly, dark, evil, evil person, ferocious, harm, mad, malign, miserable, nastily, nasty, naughty, poor, sinister, sore, unholy, venomous, vicious, villain, villainous, wicked, wicked person), aufgebracht (incensed, outraged, upset). (various references)

Greek 

ωργισμένοσ (irate, vexed), οργισμένος (furious, in high dudgeon, irate, resentful), θυμωμένοσ (disgruntled, huffish, huffy, irate, mad, wrathful, wrathy), θυμωμένος (het up, mad, stroppy). (various references)

Hebrew 

מוקצף (angered, foamy, frothy, whipped), מרוגז (annoyed, irate), קצוף (foamy, whipped), זועף (enraged, grim, gruff, saturnine, sullen), זועם (furious, grim, wrathful), זעוף (furious, irate, sullen, surly, vexed, wrathful), אנף (ire, wrath), כועס (grumpy, indignant, irate), כעוס (cross, excited, ratty), רוגז (dudgeon, exasperation, flounce, huff, irate, sour, vexation), נזעם (enraged, irate, sullen, wrathful), נרגז (annoyed, enraged, irritable). (various references)

Hungarian

haragos (as cross as two sticks, cross, fretful, furious, indignant, irate, nettled, rough, testy, tetchy, wrathful, Wroth). (various references)

Icelandic

reiður (cross). (various references)

Indonesian

marah (chafe, crabbed, crusty, indignant, irate, mad, shirty, wrathful, wroth), gusar, berang (anger, irate, upset), benguk (down hearted, sulking). (various references)

Inuktitut

ninngautivaa (to be angry). (various references)

Irish

feargach (cross), colgach (cross). (various references)

Italian

irato (bad tempered, cross, irate, wrathful, Wroth). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

憤る (to be angry, to be enraged, to be fretful, to be indignant, to be peevish, to fret, to resent). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

いかる (Japanese grosbeak, to be angry, to get angry, to get mad), はらをたてる (to get angry, to take offense), はらがたつ (to get angry, to take offense), へそをまげる (to become perverse, to get angry), けしきばむ (to display one's anger, to grow angry), むくれる (to become angry or sullen), めをさんかくにしておこる (to be really angry), あらそいいかる (to be angry and quarrelsome), あれくるう (to get angry, to rage), とがりごえ (sharp or angry voice), こわいかお (angry look, grim face), おこったかお (angry face), いきどおる (to be angry, to be enraged, to be indignant, to resent), どごう (angry roar, bellow, local clan), どせい (angry voice, clay, earthen, harsh words, Saturn), ぷんぷんして (angrily, in a huff, in an angry mood, in anger), ぷりぷりして (angrily, in a huff, in an angry mood, in anger), プンプン (intense smell, state of being furious or angry), おんしょく (angry countenance, synthesizer patch, timbre, tone color, tone quality, warm colour), おこる (to be angry, to flourish, to get angry, to get mad, to happen, to occur, to rise), あたまにくる (to get angry, to get mad, to get pissed off). (various references)

Korean 

성난. (various references)

Manx

jymmoosagh (chagrined, displeased, furious, indignant, raging, vengeful), jymmoogh (wroth), fergagh (ferocious, furious, glowering, hothead, hot-tempered, indignant, passion, raging), fargyssagh, fargagh (enraged, furious, indignant, quick-tempered; passion, raging, vexed, wrathful), corree (anger, annoyed, ire). (various references)

Maya

kuux-il (to get angry), dziikil (to be angry). (various references)

Norwegian

sint (cross, fierce). (various references)

Papiamen

rabia (become angry, cross, get angry), krou (cross). (various references)

Pig Latin

angryay.(various references)

Polish

rozgniewany (cross). (various references)

Portuguese

irritado (huffish, huffy, peeved, pettish, resentful, roily, snappish, snappy, snotty, sore, techy, testy, tetchy, waxy). (various references)

Romanian

agitat (agitated, agog, billowy, choppy, excited, excitedly, fevered, feverish, fractious, fretful, fussy, hectic, irritated, nervous, restless, snappish, tempestuous, unsettled), supãrat (cross, furious, irritated, magged, Moody, peeved, peevishly, petulantly, poutingly, sad, snuffy, sulky, sullen, sullenly), oţãrât (crabbed, enraged, furious, sulky, sullen, sullenly), necãjit (depressed, downcast, long-faced, peeved, sorry, tormented, worried), mânios (black-browed, crazy, furious, furiously, high, hot, in warm blood, infuriated, ireful, out of temper, waxy, wrathful, wroth), ciudos (despiteful, furious, spiteful), cãtrãnit (black, downcast, embittered, furious, jaw-fallen, peevish, sulky, tar-colored, tar-coloured, Tarry), burzuluit (dishevelled), înciudat. (various references)

Romansch

sa (to get angry). (various references)

Romany

holyanàv (to be angry). (various references)

Russian 

сердитый (crabbed, cross, grouty, grumpy, irate, rambunctious, rusty, shirty, snuffy, sour, surly). (various references)

Scottish

nuadarra. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

srdit (irate, wrathful), ljutit (huffish, ireful, querulous, shirty), ljut (bitter, cross, grim, hot, huffish, mad, peppery, pissed, racy, severe), gnevan (tearing, wrathful, wroth). (various references)

Shona

-shatirwa (to be angry). (various references)

Spanish

enojado (cross, displeased, hipped, huffy, mad, shirty, snotty, vexed). (various references)

Sranan

ati bron (be angry), mandi (be angry). (various references)

Swedish

arg (bad, cross, mad, miserable, nasty, poor, rabid), vred (cross, handle, irate, ireful, knob, wrathful, wroth). (various references)

Tagalog

galít (cross). (various references)

Thai

โกรธ (anger, livid, miffed), ที่มีพายุแรง, อักเสบ. (various references)

Turkish

kizgin (cross, hot), kızmış (must), kızgın (angry with, annoyed, ardent, baking, black, boiling, cross, dyspeptic, fervent, fierce, fiery, flaming, frowning, furious, glowing, hot, hot-blooded, huffy, in a glow, in a pet, in a tiff, incensed, indignant, indignantly, inflamed, irate, ireful, mad, pissed off, red-hot, snappish, sore, vexed, wild, wroth), kızarmış (bloodshot, blotchy, fried, grilled, roasted), iltihaplı (inflammatory, mattery, purulent, running, sore), hiddetli (flamboyant, furious, hot-headed, in high dudgeon, volcanic, vulcanic, wrathful, wrathy), hırslı (ambitious, avid, competitive, covetous, greedy, greedy for, high-flying, impassioned, passionate, uptight, voracious), fırtınalı (boisterous, dirty, gusty, heavy, inclement, intemperate, nasty, rough, rugged, squally, stormy, tempestuous, turbulent, ugly, wild), öfkeli (bristly, dyspeptic, enraged, furious, heated, hot-blooded, ill-conditioned, in a pet, incensed, indignant, inflamed, ireful, pissed off, purple in the face, rabid, rampant, red-hot, snotty, sore, spunky, vehement, waxy, white hot, with his hackles up, wrathful, wrathy, wroth, wrought up), öfkelí (cross). (various references)

Turkmen 

gyсyr (malicious), gazaply, gaharjan (furious). (various references)

Ukrainian

сердитий (crabbed, cross-grained, grouty, irate, porky, rambunctious, roily, shirty, sulky), роздратований (aggravated, annoyed, bad tempered, disgruntled, edgy, exasperated, huffy, irritated, nasty, peeved, querulous, shirty, vexed), гнівний (irate, ireful, wrathful), запалений (animated, broken-winded, inflamed, irritable), лютий (diabolic, diabolical, fell, ferocious, fierce, out and out, rampant, savage, truculent, wicked), почервонілий. (various references)

Vietnamese 

tức giận (angrily, ceiling, wrathful, wroth), giận, dữ (rough, violently), cáu nhức nhối. (various references)

Welsh

naturus (hot-headed, quick-tempered), milain (cruel, fierce, savage), llidiog (inflamed, wrathful), gwythlon (wrathful), ffrom (irascible, testy, touchy), digofus (indignant), dig (anger, wrath, wrathful), dicllon (wrathful). (various references)

iracundo, iracundum, iracundus, irata, iratae, irati, iratus, iratusque. (various references)

hatheart. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Misspellings

"Angry" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abgry, aggry, agri, agry, agryl, anagly, Andry, angary, angery, angly, angra, angrie, angyr, anry, an'ry, antry, anwry, apgrp, Asgarby, augry, aunry, engry, gangry, hangry, ingry, kangru, Kngri, ngr, ngry, ongry, pangry, tangry, ungry. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: rangy.

-1 letter: gnar, gran, gray, nary, rang, yang, yarn.

-2 letters: any, gan, gar, gay, nag, nay, rag, ran, ray, rya, yar.

-3 letters: ag, an, ar, ay, na, ya.

+1 letter: anergy, angary, gantry, gnarly, grainy, granny, orangy, raying.

+2 letters: agentry, angerly, angrily, braying, draying, fraying, gauntry, granary, grandly, graying, orangey, organdy, praying, syringa, varying, yarding, yarning.

+3 letters: agrimony, agronomy, agrypnia, arraying, carrying, dairying, daringly, foraying, frayings, garganey, grayling, grayness, greenway, guaranty, gynandry, gynarchy, gyniatry, gyrating, gyration, harrying, laryngal, larynges, layering, marrying, nugatory, orangery, parrying, partying, ragingly, rallying, ravingly, readying, regnancy, relaying, repaying, resaying, spraying, stingray, straying, synergia, syringas, tarrying, vagrancy, vinegary, wearying, yearling, yearlong, yearning.