angrier

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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Angry \An"gry\, a. [Compar. Angrier; superl. Angriest.] [See Anger.]

1.Troublesome; vexatious; rigorous. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]

God had provided a severe and angry education to chastise the forwardness of a young spirit.— Jer. Taylor.[1913 Webster]

2.Inflamed and painful, as a sore. [1913 Webster]

3.Touched with anger; under the emotion of anger; feeling resentment; enraged; -- followed generally by with before a person, and at before a thing. [1913 Webster]

Be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves.— Gen. xlv. 5.[1913 Webster]
Wherefore should God be angry at thy voice?— Eccles. v. 6.[1913 Webster]

4.Showing anger; proceeding from anger; acting as if moved by anger; wearing the marks of anger; as, angry words or tones; an angry sky; angry waves. "An angry countenance." --Prov. xxv. 23. [1913 Webster]

5.Red. [R.] [1913 Webster]

Sweet rose, whose hue, angry and brave.— Herbert.[1913 Webster]

6.Sharp; keen; stimulated. [R.] [1913 Webster]

I never ate with angrier appetite.— Tennyson.[1913 Webster]

Syn: Passionate; resentful; irritated; irascible; indignant; provoked; enraged; incensed; exasperated; irate; hot; raging; furious; wrathful; wroth; choleric; inflamed; infuriated. [1913 Webster]

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