angry
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angry
- /ˈæŋ.ɡɹi/ US, UK
- [ˈɛŋ-]
- [ˈeɪ̯ŋ-]
Rhymes with -æŋɡɹi
Where it comes from
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂enǵʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *h₂énǵʰosder.
Proto-Germanic *angazaz
Old Norse angrbor.
Middle English anger
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
Middle English angry
English angry
From Middle English angry, equivalent to anger + -y; see anger.
adjective angrier · more angry · angriest · most angry
- Displaying or feeling anger. His face became angry.
- Inflamed and painful. The broken glass left two angry cuts across my arm.
- Dark and stormy, menacing. Angry clouds raced across the sky.
Similar: agitated, angry, bad-tempered, berserk, big mad, blood-boiling, boiling mad, butthurt, choleric, cranky, cross, fit to be tied
noun angries
- An angry person. Maybe I just have a thick skin from years of newsgroup use, but hey, it is a forum where all kinds of people come, and its not like you have to take the anonymous kooks or the angries too seriously (they don't live next door to me or hang out in my office).
verb angries · angrying · angried
- To anger. Onely they that repent, and are verie ſorie that they haue angried God with their ſinnes, and yet truſt that they are forgiuẽ them for Chriſtes ſake, and that the reſt of their weakeneſſe and vnperfectnes is couered with his deth & paſſion, who alſo deſire to goe forwarde and growe more and more in
