angry
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.
expressing, caused by, or characterized by anger; wrathful: angry words.
Chiefly New England and Midland U.S. inflamed, as a sore; exhibiting inflammation.
(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 of angry
1Other words for angry
1 | irate, incensed, enraged, infuriated, furious, mad; provoked, irritated |
Opposites for angry
Other words from angry
- an·gri·ly, adverb
- an·gri·ness, noun
- half-angry, adjective
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How to use angry in a sentence
After all, he said, unlike a politician, no one is ever angry to see a firefighter show up.
More people with bachelor’s degrees go back to school to learn skilled trades | Jon Marcus | November 20, 2020 | Washington PostI often feel that yelling, arguing, being super angry, fighting and so on is hilarious.
He’s no longer a teenager jumping out of his girlfriend’s window to avoid her angry father, or fumbling his way through learning the principles of the creed.
All the ‘Assassin’s Creed’ games, ranked | Elise Favis, Gene Park | November 11, 2020 | Washington PostIn body-camera video of the incident, Brown was talking with officers while waiting for his citation when one officer became angry that Brown would not take his hands out of his pockets.
Milwaukee to pay Bucks’ Sterling Brown $750,000, admit police violated his rights | Matt Bonesteel | November 9, 2020 | Washington PostAfter BJ grew angry at the suggestion, the manager told BJ he wouldn’t authorize Drew’s hours past mid-August, she said.
He Has a Developmental Disability and Needs a Caretaker. The State Suggested Diapers Instead. | by Amy Silverman for Arizona Daily Star | November 6, 2020 | ProPublica
The exclamation was so wholly familiar in its human angriness that Kieran almost liked her, for the first time.
The Stars, My Brothers | Edmond HamiltonIt rolled all around father's angriness and made it feel better almost at once.
Fairy Prince and Other Stories | Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
British Dictionary definitions for angry
/ (ˈæŋɡrɪ) /
feeling or expressing annoyance, animosity, or resentment; enraged
suggestive of anger: angry clouds
severely inflamed: an angry sore
usage For angry
Derived forms of angry
- angrily, adverb
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