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anger Definition

an·ger (aŋ′gər)

noun

  1. a feeling of displeasure resulting from injury, mistreatment, opposition, etc., and usually showing itself in a desire to fight back at the supposed cause of this feeling
  2. Obsolete pain or trouble

Etymology: ME < ON angr, distress < IE base *angh-, constricted > L angustus, narrow, angustia, tightness, Gr anchein, to squeeze, anchonē, a strangling, Ger angst, fear

transitive verb

to make angry; enrage

Etymology: ME angren < ON angra, to distress

intransitive verb

to become angry

anger Synonyms

anger

n.

wrath, rage, fury, passion, choler, temper, bad or ill temper, ire, indignation, acrimony, animosity, hostility, hatred, resentment, outrage, vengeful passion, revengeful passion, hot temper, irascibility, displeasure, irritation, impatience, vexation, annoyance, antagonism, hot blood, violence, agitation, excitement, frenzy, umbrage, disapprobation, tantrum, temper tantrum, petulance, dudgeon, high dudgeon, fretfulness, rankling, peevishness, exasperation, spleen, huff, gall, pique, black mood, aggravation*, fit*, conniption fit*, conniption*, slow burn*, bile*, dander*, snit*, distemper*; see also rage 2.

Antonyms patience*, mildness*, calm.

anger Synonyms

anger

v.

  1. To arouse (someone) to anger

    infuriate, madden, enrage, arouse, annoy, get on one's nerves, irritate, agitate, affront, bait, cross, put out of humor, incense, fret, rankle, put into a temper, drive into a rage, vex, gall, goad, chafe, nettle, excite, work up, arouse resentment, provoke ire, arouse ire, ruffle, exasperate, embitter, goad into a frenzy, craze, provoke, make angry, stir up, outrage, offend, inflame, pique, rile, enkindle, exacerbate, burn up*, make all hot and bothered*, get one's back up*, get one's goat*, get in one's hair*, make the fur fly*, get one's dander up*, put one's dander up*, make bad blood*, make one's blood boil*, stir up a hornet's nest*, make sore*, make one blow one's top*, make one blow one's stack*, steam up*, miff*, tick off*, tee off*.

    Antonyms calm*, soothe*, placate. *

  2. To become angry

    lose one's temper, forget oneself, get mad; see fume, rage 1.

anger is broadly applicable to feelings of resentful or revengeful displeasure; indignation implies righteous anger aroused by what seems unjust, mean, or insulting; rage suggests a violent outburst of anger in which self-control is lost; fury implies a frenzied rage that borders on madness; ire, chiefly a literary word, suggests a show of great anger in acts, words, looks, etc.; wrath implies deep indignation expressing itself in a desire to punish or get revenge

anger Usage Examples

Object

  • god: Prometheus had angered the gods by taking fire from Olympus and giving it to mankind.

Converse of object

  • arouse: But early talk of compulsory purchase aroused some local anger and the agencies backed off.
  • vent: I need to vent some anger about people who can't walk.
  • spark: The center's administration office will be open from June 5. Please select next story: Hillary sparks anger over Everest.. .
  • express: Jayne has expressed anger at Big Brother ' s insistence that she be uncharacteristically subdued.
  • suppress: His death was a signal for some of the suppressed anger at the bureaucratic regimes of Eastern Europe to surface.

Preposition: at

  • sin: It simply means, ' His anger at human sin.

Adjective modifier

  • righteous: We're going to inspire our audience with a righteous anger.
  • pent-up: Is tennis a good way of unleashing all your pent-up anger?
  • fierce: Second, God's abhorrence of sin leads to fierce anger.
  • furious: And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers.
  • justifiable: Neil and Ann - Yes I agree there is totally justifiable anger within us as individuals and our community.
  • widespread: There is widespread anger building up on the estates, which is spreading into support for the Defend Council Housing campaign.

Modifies a noun

  • burk: To personally anger burk this alone can show quot and.
  • management: Maybe with luck, maybe you faced some anger management problems.
  • rise: In only 45 seconds, anger rises in people waiting for a lift.

Modifying Another Word

  • greatly: Greatly angered by this, Hitler ordered that events be moved swiftly.
  • apparently: His sending off against Reading, together with being late for training a number of times, has apparently angered the Blues ' gaffer.
  • easily: It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
anger Quotes

Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

—Halifax, George Savile, 1st Marquis of

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

—Eliot, George pseudonym of  MaryAnn Evans

Anger and tenderness: my selves. And now I can believe they breathe in me as angels, not polarities.

—Rich, Adrienne Cecile

She was thinkingöfor, since she had been formed by literature, she could think in no other wayöthat all this had been described in Dickens,Tolstoy, Hugo, Dostoevsky, and a dozen others. All that noble and terrific indignation had done nothing, achieved nothing, the shout of anger from the nineteenth century might as well have been silentöfor here came the file of prisoners, handcuffed two by two, and on their faces was that same immemorial look of patient, sardonic understanding.

—Lessing, Doris May ne¤  e Tayler

Oh heav'nly fool, thy most kiss-worthy face Anger invests with such a lovely grace That Anger's self I needs must kiss again.

—Shute, Nevil originally Nevil Shute Norway

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

—Halifax, George Savile, 1st Marquis of

Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?

—Bible (Old Testament)

Bigotry may be roughlydefined astheangerof menwho have no opinions.

—Chesterton, G(ilbert) K(eith)

A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.

—Bible (Old Testament)

What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns. Only the stuttering rifles'rapid rattle Can patter out their hasty orisons.

—Owen,Wilfred

Behold me then, me for him, life for life I offer, on me let thine anger fall; Account me man; I for his sake will leave Thy bosom, and this glory next to thee Freely put off, and for him lastly die Well pleased, on me let Death wreck all his rage. 582

—Milton,John

Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever, and not this outer life of telegrams and anger.

—Forster, E(dward) M(organ)

People out of work are not given to talking much about the one thing on their minds.You only sense by indirection, degrees of anger, shades of humiliation and echoes of fear.

—Evans,Walker

The L is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteousinmercy.He will not always chide: neither will he keep his anger forever.He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.

—Bible (Old Testament)

  If you strike a child take care that you strike it in anger, evenattheriskof maiming itfor life. A blow incold blood neither can nor should be forgiven.

—Shaw, George Bernard

   Your anger was a climate I inhabited like a desert in a dry frigid weather of high thin air and ivory sun, sand dunes the wind lifted into stinging clouds that blinded and choked me where the only ice was in the blood.

—Piercy, Marge

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