angry
an·gry (aŋ′grē)
adjective -·grier, -·gri·est
- feeling, showing, or resulting from anger an angry reply
- wild and stormy, as if angry an angry sea
- inflamed and sore an angry wound
Etymology: ME angri, troubled < anger
angry
modif.
Antonyms
Modifying Another Word
- furiously: Furiously angry, she vowed she would ' get them haunted ' .
- bitterly: But right at this precise moment, he was most bitterly angry with himself.
- extremely: Edward in an extremely angry mood order an army put together for a campaign to put down Bruce.
- very: People who spoke were very angry about many issues.
- so: I was so angry at myself, and wanted to give up there and then, but Andy was great.
Preposition: at
- injustice: We know from the Bible that he got angry at injustice, he wept with those who were grieving, he experienced joy.
- lack: Fees UP Teaching hours DOWN Students ANGRY SUSSEX University students are angry at the lack of teaching hours.
Infinitive complement
- discover: Angry to discover that the treatment I was having was not ' alternative ' physical therapy, but mainstream within the NHS.
Modifies a noun
- mob: Back to top The films compared - the endings: Edward Scissorhands ends with Edward being pursued to his castle by an angry mob.
- outburst: Dr. Trisha said: Being sleep deprived certainly makes you irritable, less tolerant and prone to angry outbursts.
- wound-up: Years cheap arizona auto insurance of louisiana's not angry wound-up.
- rant: PS - Thanks for saying it was an " angry rant " - it felt like one!
- protest: That must have provoked some angry protests from the club members!
- crowd: The arrest of three pitmen for begging resulted in an angry crowd surging through Burslem.
Used with adjective complement
- feel: Try instead to explain calmly why you feel angry.
- get: We two should not get angry about these difficulties.
- become: I'm going to have to stop typing now I've become too angry.
- grow: The argument was protracted and at length grew angry.
- seem: Now you seem angry for having wasted your time studying it and going in circles to no effect or ill effect.
- stay: And how long do you stay angry after you've had a fight?
The 50s face was angry, the 60s face was well-fed, the 70s face was foxy. Perhaps it was the right expression: there was a lot to be waryabout.
I was never an Angry Young Man. I am angry only when I hit my thumb with a hammer.
I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow.
Angry Young Man.
Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another. Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath.
Golf always makes me so damned angry.
Has he reconnected with the angry middle?
But I say unto you,That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say,Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.
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