Dictionary Information: Definition Angry - Description Meaning Thesaurus

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

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.

Synonyms -- Passionate; resentful; irritated; irascible; indignant; provoked; enraged; incensed; exasperated; irate; hot; raging; furious; wrathful; wroth; choleric; inflamed; infuriated.