angry

comparative angrier · comparative more angry · superlative angriest · superlative most angry

1. Displaying or feeling anger.

   His face became angry.

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   An angry mob started looting the warehouse.

   Then we relapsed into a discomfited silence, and wished we were anywhere else. But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud, and with such a hearty enjoyment that instead of getting angry and more mortified we began to laugh ourselves, and instantly felt better.

   1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC

   Cone, who once called himself “the angriest theologian in America,” is still angry.

   2018 April 30, John Blake, “Remembering the theologian who took on the hypocrisy of the white church”, in CNN, archived from the original on 21 Aug 2025

   But, statistically-speaking, there is significantly-greater-than-even odds of the American forces coming out victorious - as I said, largely due to, one, the sheer technology advantage of the radar and fire-control systems, and also two, the almighty swarm of Fletchers. Never, ever underestimate the firepower of an almighty swarm of angry Fletchers.

   2019 March 6, Drachinifel, 41:58 from the start, in The Battle of Samar (Alternate History) - Bring on the Battleships!, archived from the original on 20 Jul 2022

   I kept my window rolled up, eyes on the road, probably making the pickup man angrier with my silence.

   2024 June 10, Thomas Lake, “17 years later, I still remember this act of kindness from another driver”, in CNN, archived from the original on 13 Jun 2024

   Synonyms: upset, mad, enraged, wrathful, furious, apoplectic, irritated, annoyed

2. Inflamed and painful.

   The broken glass left two angry cuts across my arm.

3. figurativelylike the sky or the seaDark and stormy, menacing.

   Angry clouds raced across the sky.

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   […]nor dreads he the angry sea[…]

   1756, Christopher Smart, “Ode II”, in The Book of the Epodes, translation of original by Horace

   When she and her sister were away at Williamsburg, Nancy and I were more like founderers on a raft adrift in an angry sea.

   1997, Kelly Joyce Neff, Dear Companion: The Inner Life of Martha Jefferson, page 92

plural angries

1. informalrareAn angry person.

   The big question is who gets what part of the party? Howard's angry, he'll get the angries.

   2003 December 24, SteveR, “U.S. Recovery? Tell It to the Unemployed”, in austin.general (Usenet), archived from the original on 12 Apr 2026

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   Maybe I just have a thick skin from years of newsgroup use, but hey, it is a forum where all kinds of people come, and its not like you have to take the anonymous kooks or the angries too seriously (they don't live next door to me or hang out in my office).

   2001 October 14, Mary Gordon, “SUPPORT”, in alt.support.alzheimers (Usenet), archived from the original on 12 Apr 2026

   He knows the young buffalos who bitch beyond reasonable bitching but still do the job, and he knows the angries, the men who never seem to feel good about themselves because of the seemingly endless struggle against an unrealistic bureaucracy that demands so much of them and offers so little in the way of reward or compensation. After all, they are "only" cops.

   2001 November 16, Lenny Stover, quoting Harry T. O'Reilly, “ONLY A COP”, in alt.law-enforcement (Usenet), archived from the original on 12 Apr 2026

   Nah..that hasn't been said anywhere by anyone except a few malcontents. On the contrary, the angries wish us to accept what they say at face value and come unglued when we don't.....

   2002 August 28, Twistedhed, “Ham Misbehavior”, in rec.radio.cb (Usenet), archived from the original on 12 Apr 2026

present singular third person angries · participle present angrying · participle past angried · past angried

1. obsoletetransitiveTo anger.

   It is the doctrin of the Scripture. that our good works are alwaies ſtained with much vncleanes, with which God may be iuſtly offended and angried: ſo farre are they from purchazing vs his good will, or prouoking his liberalitie towards vs.

   1631, [Richard Smith], A Conference of the Catholike and Protestante Doctrine with the Expresse Words of Holie Scripture. Which Is the Second Parte of the Prudentiall Balance of Religion. VVherein Is Clearely Shewed, That in More than 260. Points of Controuersie, Catholicks Agree with the Holie Scripture, both in Words and Sense: and Protestants Disagree in Both, and Depraue Both the Sayings, Words, and Sense of Scripture. […], […] Doway, […], page 72

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   Onely they that repent, and are verie ſorie that they haue angried God with their ſinnes, and yet truſt that they are forgiuẽ them for Chriſtes ſake, and that the reſt of their weakeneſſe and vnperfectnes is couered with his deth & paſſion, who alſo deſire to goe forwarde and growe more and more in holy life & conuerſation.

   1578, The Cathechisme or Manner How to Instruct and Teach Children and Others in the Christian Faith. […], London: […] Henrie Middleton, for Iohn Harison

   The King ſent to the Londoners requeſting to borrowe of them one thouſande pounde, whiche they ſtoutely denyed, and alſo euil entreated, bette and néere hand ſlew a certain Lumbard that woulde haue lent the King the ſayde ſumme, which when the King heard he was maruellouſly angried, and calling togither almoſt all the nobles of the lande, hée opened to them the malitiouſneſſe of the Londoners, and cõplayned of theyr preſumption, the whyche noble men gaue counſell, that their inſolencie ſhoulde with ſpéede be oppreſſed, and theyr pride abated.

   1580, Iohn Stow (collector), The Chronicles of England, from Brute vnto This Present Yeare of Christ 1580., London: […] Ralphe Newberie, […], page 512

   For when the Arabians being offended with Heraclius for denying them their pay, and for his religion had ſeuered themſelues from him, Mahomet ioyned himſelfe to the angried ſouldiers, and ſtirred vp their minds againſt their Emperour, and encouraged them in their defection.

   1609, William Biddulph, The Trauels of Certaine Englishmen into Africa, Asia, Troy, Bythinia, Thracia, and to the Blacke Sea. […], London: […] Th. Haueland, for W. Aspley, […], pages 49–50

   For verily the common ſort (O Socratus my friende,) is ingratefull, full of mockes and ſcornes, vaine, ſoone angried, cruel, enuious, rude, heaped full of troubles and trifles: and whoſeuer doth familiarly acquaint himſelfe with them, & conuerſe amongſt them, doth at the length, become farre more miſerable then they be themſelues.

   1611, Iohn Iackson, The Soule Is Immortall: or, Certaine Discourses Defending the Immortalitie of the Soule; Against the Limmes of Sathan: to Wit, Saduces, Anabaptistes, Atheists, and Such Like of the Hellish Crue of Aduersaries, London: […] W. W. for Robert Boulton […], page 173

   I doe well to be angry. It was a milde ſaying of Auguſtus the Emperour to one of his ſouldiers deſirous to be diſmiſſed his armie, but wanting a iuſt and honeſt excuſe to his friends at his returne home, ſay, ſaith the Emperour, that I have angried thee.

   1625, R[obert] V[ase], Ionah’s Contestation about His Gourd. In a Sermon Deliuered at Pauls Crosse. Septemb. 19. 1624., London: […] I. L. for Robert Bird, […], page 27