angry Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective feeling or showing anger
    • angry at the weather
    • angry customers
    • an angry silence
    • sending angry letters to the papers
  2. adjective satellite (of the elements) as if showing violent anger
    furious; raging; wild; tempestuous.
    • angry clouds on the horizon
    • furious winds
    • the raging sea
  3. adjective satellite severely inflamed and painful
    • an angry sore

WordNet

An"gry adjective
Etymology
See Anger.
Wordforms
comparative Angrier superlative Angriest
Definitions
  1. Troublesome; vexatious; rigorous. Obs.
    God had provided a severe and angry education to chastise the forwardness of a young spirit. Jer. Taylor.
  2. Inflamed and painful, as a sore.
  3. Touched with anger; under the emotion of anger; feeling resentment; enraged; -- followed generally by with before a person, and at before a thing.
    Be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves. Gen. xlv. 5.
    Wherefore should God be angry at thy voice? Eccles. v. 6.
  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.
  5. Red. R.
    Sweet rose, whose hue, angry and brave. Herbert.
  6. Sharp; keen; stimulated. R.
    I never ate with angrier appetite. Tennyson.
    Syn. -- Passionate; resentful; irritated; irascible; indignant; provoked; enraged; incensed; exasperated; irate; hot; raging; furious; wrathful; wroth; choleric; inflamed; infuriated.

Webster 1913