angry

[ang-gree] /ˈæŋ gri/
adjective, angrier, angriest.
1.
feeling or showing anger or strong resentment (usually followed by at, with, or about):
to be angry at the dean; to be angry about the snub.
2.
expressing, caused by, or characterized by anger; wrathful:
angry words.
3.
Chiefly New England and Midland U.S. inflamed, as a sore; exhibiting inflammation.
4.
(of an object or phenomenon) exhibiting a characteristic or creating a mood associated with anger or danger, as by color, sound, force, etc.:
an angry sea; the boom of angry guns.
Origin
1275-1325; Middle English. See anger, -y1
Related forms
angrily, adverb
angriness, noun
half-angrily, adverb
half-angry, adjective
overangry, adjective
unangrily, adverb
unangry, adjective
Synonyms
1. irate, incensed, enraged, infuriated, furious, mad; provoked, irritated.
Antonyms
1. calm.
Examples from the web for angry
  • Voters here aren't angry; they are simply glum.
  • It is loud, angry, punk and metal music that delivers.
  • Even when he is not angry, his baritone voice has a declamatory tone.
  • She shouts louder than a giantess when she's angry.
  • His advisors got angry, declared him insane, and locked him up.
  • The book sticks to traditional interpretations—an angry child sees red and a jealous one feels green.
  • It's making me angry right now just thinking about it.
  • He appears very much as one might expect—angry and determined.
  • She's just had an angry phone call from one of the people she portrays in the book, and she is visibly disturbed.
  • All of us, when we're angry or disappointed, want a chance to be heard.
British Dictionary definitions for angry

angry

/ˈæŋɡrɪ/
adjective -grier, -griest
1.
feeling or expressing annoyance, animosity, or resentment; enraged
2.
suggestive of anger: angry clouds
3.
severely inflamed: an angry sore
Derived Forms
angrily, adverb
Usage note
It was formerly considered incorrect to talk about being angry at a person, but this use is now acceptable
Word Origin and History for 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.