angry

Adjective
Synonyms: furiousragingtempestuouswild

WordNet 3.0

Adjective (3)

  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”Synonyms: furiousragingtempestuouswild
  3. severely inflamed and painful“an angry sore”
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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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