Dictionary

angry en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈæŋ.ɡɹi/ (General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
• [ˈɛŋ-] General American, æ-raising
• [ˈeɪ̯ŋ-] General American, æ-raising
• (California) audio

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂enǵʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *h₂énǵʰosder. Proto-Germanic *angazaz Old Norse angrbor. Middle English anger Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y Middle English angry English angry From Middle English angry, equivalent to anger + -y; see anger.

Meanings

1. Displaying or feeling anger.
   • 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:
   • 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:
   • His face became angry.
   • All considered, never going to bed angry sounds like a good rule to live by. But it isn’t always useful, Romanoff said. 2025 May 16, Kristen Rogers, “The surprising benefits of going to bed angry at your partner”, in CNN, archived from the original on 14 Jun 2025:
   • 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:
   • 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:
2. (said about a wound or a rash) Inflamed and painful.
   • The broken glass left two angry cuts across my arm.
3. (figuratively, qualifier:like the sky or the sea, said about the elements) Dark and stormy, menacing.
   • Angry clouds raced across the sky.
   • 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:
   • […]nor dreads he the angry sea[…] 1756, Christopher Smart, “Ode II”, in The Book of the Epodes, translation of original by Horace:

Forms

Antonyms

calm · serene · sanguine

Deriveds

angryphone · angriness · sangry · nonangry · angries · Angries · a hungry man is an angry man · semi-angry · Angry Young Man · angry mode · angrify · angry white male · angry white man · hangry · angry fruit salad · unangry · angryable · angrily · angry as a wet hen · angery

Hypernyms

emotionful · passionate

Hyponyms

hangry · aggrieved · ferocious · indignant

Relateds

anger · tantrum · lose one's temper

Synonyms

glimflashy · butthurt · ireful (displaying anger) · pissed · frustrated · annoyed (displaying anger) · spitting chips · waxy · up on one's ear · wroth · splenetic · choleric · incensed · irritated (displaying anger) · cranky · worked up (displaying anger) · offended · pathetic · cross · wode · fury · apoplectic (displaying anger) · pissy · angry · ill-natured · berserk · agitated · infuriated · fuming · irate · little mad · vexed (displaying anger) · hopping mad · blood-boiling · bad-tempered · cheesed off (displaying anger) · fit to be tied · hot · raging · steaming · pissed off (displaying anger) · wrathful (displaying anger) · ready to be tied · p'd off · mad (displaying anger) · mad as a bear with a sore head · upset (displaying anger) · seething · furibund · enraged (displaying anger) · grim · furious (displaying anger) · sore · big mad · boiling mad · psyched up (displaying anger) · miffed · zowerswopped · ired · livid · screwfaced

Translations (271)

bn উত্তেজিত (displaying anger) · sco fasht (displaying anger) · it arrabbiato (displaying anger) · bcl anggot (displaying anger) · mr रागवलेले (displaying anger) · lou kolè (displaying anger) · enm angry (displaying anger) · ga cochallach (displaying anger) · mt irrabjat (displaying anger) · kk ашулы (displaying anger) · uk розсе́рджений (displaying anger) · cic i̠hashaa (displaying anger) · fi kipeä (inflamed and painful) · ood baga (displaying anger) · gl enfurruñado (displaying anger) · hi क्रोधित (displaying anger) · lv iekaisis (inflamed and painful) · te క్రోధం (displaying anger) · ur ناراض (displaying anger) · chk song (displaying anger) · rtm feke (displaying anger) · ky ыраазы эмес (displaying anger) · lv dusmīgs (displaying anger) · hy զայրացած (displaying anger) · acw معصب (displaying anger) · ky ачуу (displaying anger) · to ʻita (displaying anger) · ky каарданган (displaying anger) · got 𐌸𐍅𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌷𐍃 (displaying anger) · kri vɛks (displaying anger) · qu phiñasqa (displaying anger) · cmn 生氣的 /生气的 (displaying anger) · ky кыжырлуу (displaying anger) · hu gyulladt (inflamed and painful) · pt zangado (displaying anger) · be сярдзі́ты (displaying anger) · cs rozzlobený (displaying anger) · nb rasende (displaying anger) · ase Claw5@NearNose-PalmBack (displaying anger) · ru серди́тый (displaying anger) · mi riri (displaying anger) · de verärgert (displaying anger) · ky катуу (displaying anger) · fa عصبانی (displaying anger) · ltg špetnys (displaying anger) · za hozgaek (displaying anger) · mi naunau (displaying anger) · ky ачуулуу (displaying anger) · fr en colère (displaying anger) · win woogitek (displaying anger) · ar غَاضِب (displaying anger) · su ambek (displaying anger) · ajp غضبان (displaying anger) · cy dig (displaying anger) · uk злий (displaying anger) · la īrātus (displaying anger) · toi kali (displaying anger) · hu bosszús (displaying anger) · es enchilado (displaying anger) · ru злой (displaying anger) · hi नाराज़ (displaying anger) · uz badjahl (displaying anger) · lt piktas (displaying anger) · ota آزغین (displaying anger) · ro supărat (displaying anger) · sdh تۊڕە (displaying anger) · bcl dagit (displaying anger) · tg бадхашм (displaying anger) · sk zlostný (displaying anger) · ang ierre (displaying anger) · tr asabi (displaying anger) · yue 嬲 (displaying anger) · cmn 黑暗狂風的 /黑暗狂风的 (dark and stormy) · ky каардуу (displaying anger) · hu dühödt (displaying anger) · tg асабӣ (displaying anger) · io iracoza (displaying anger) · ru гне́вный (displaying anger) · mi tūpehupehu (displaying anger) · nl boos (displaying anger) · ms marah (displaying anger) · mi ririhau (displaying anger) · ka გაღიზიანებული (displaying anger) · hu ingerült (displaying anger) · fro irous (displaying anger) · km ខឹង (displaying anger) · jam beks (displaying anger) · af kwaad (displaying anger) · mn ууртай (displaying anger) · sk rozhnevaný (displaying anger) · it infiammato (inflamed and painful) · ckb قەڵس (displaying anger) · az əsəbi (displaying anger) · mi manawawera (displaying anger) · pl zły (displaying anger) · yi אין כּעס (displaying anger) · ro furios (displaying anger) · ne क्रोधित (displaying anger) · hu haragos (displaying anger) · sq i zemëruar (displaying anger) · yi ברוגז (displaying anger) · es enojado (displaying anger) · fro irié (displaying anger) · ckb تووڕە (displaying anger) · frr ārig (displaying anger) · ko 화난 (displaying anger) · ary غضبان (displaying anger) · gmq-osw vreþer (displaying anger) · cs zlostný (displaying anger) · cic hashaa (displaying anger) · uk розгні́ваний (displaying anger) · tr kızgın (displaying anger) · cs naštvaný (displaying anger) · ca emprenyat (displaying anger) · kri angri (displaying anger) · my စိတ်ဆိုး (displaying anger) · sh гњеван (displaying anger) · th โกรธ (displaying anger) · yxg ban (displaying anger) · cy dicllon (displaying anger) · nan-hbl 受氣 /受气 (displaying anger) · tr sinirli (displaying anger) · oc encolerit (displaying anger) · pl rozgniewany (displaying anger) · es cabreado (displaying anger) · tg хашмгин (displaying anger) · ajp زعلان (displaying anger) · hi रूठा (displaying anger) · mi pukuriri (displaying anger) · ky туталанган (displaying anger) · hy ջղային (displaying anger) · hu ideges (displaying anger) · lou kolær (displaying anger) · hu mérges (displaying anger) · ky жинденген (displaying anger) · oc emmaliciat (displaying anger) · sdc affuttàdu (displaying anger) · is reiður (displaying anger) · ceb suko (displaying anger) · sa कुपित (displaying anger) · mi pukukino (displaying anger) · fr fâché (displaying anger) · kea iradu (displaying anger) · tpi belihat (displaying anger) · ka გაბრაზებული (displaying anger) · sc aghedadu (displaying anger) · haw huhū (displaying anger) · es enfadado (displaying anger) · sm ita (displaying anger) · ky нааразы (displaying anger) · arz غضبان (displaying anger) · uk серди́тий (displaying anger) · ky жини келген (displaying anger) · bg разгне́вен (displaying anger) · hu bősz (displaying anger) · pt bravo (displaying anger) · eo kolera (displaying anger) · ru разгне́ванный (displaying anger) · lo ພິໂລດ (displaying anger) · lo ຄຽດ (displaying anger) · zza fahs (displaying anger) · be злы (displaying anger) · sh гневан (displaying anger) · km ដែលខឹង (displaying anger) · ca enutjat (displaying anger) · tly عصبانی (displaying anger) · sk nahnevaný (displaying anger) · tg бадқаҳр (displaying anger) · cic ishhashaa (displaying anger) · cs rozhněvaný (displaying anger) · da sur (displaying anger) · ota قیزغین (displaying anger) · hu dühös (displaying anger) · ary غاضب (displaying anger) · pdt doll (displaying anger) · lv pikts (displaying anger) · pox zaglĕ (displaying anger) · ja 怒った (displaying anger) · fa خشمگین (displaying anger) · vi giận (displaying anger) · cmn 恼怒的 (displaying anger) · jam bex (displaying anger) · no sint (displaying anger) · ar غَضْبَان (displaying anger) · ur روٹھا (displaying anger) · za hoznyaek (displaying anger) · lou fashé (displaying anger) · ary معصب (displaying anger) · mr क्रोधित (displaying anger) · fi synkkä (dark and stormy) · afb معصب (displaying anger) · he סר (displaying anger) · ru рассе́рженный (displaying anger) · ta கோபமான (displaying anger) · unm manunksi (displaying anger) · yi ברוגזלעך (displaying anger) · hu fájó (inflamed and painful) · zza har (diq) (displaying anger) · mi hīkaka (displaying anger) · fi uhkaava (dark and stormy) · gl enfadado (displaying anger) · tr öfkeli (displaying anger) · ka გაჯავრებული (displaying anger) · es emputado (displaying anger) · az hirsli (displaying anger) · hu fájdalmas (inflamed and painful) · kmr biqehr (displaying anger) · tk gaharly (displaying anger) · izh vihain (displaying anger) · te కోపం (displaying anger) · cy blin (displaying anger) · jam vex (displaying anger) · fr furieux (displaying anger) · su bendu (displaying anger) · sc arrenegadu (displaying anger) · sh gnjevan (displaying anger) · ca enrabiat (displaying anger) · tg асабонӣ (displaying anger) · sl jezen (displaying anger) · hy բարկացած (displaying anger) · ro mânios (displaying anger) · de böse (displaying anger) · enm angry (inflamed and painful) · arz منرفز (displaying anger) · sh gnevan (displaying anger) · sv arg (displaying anger) · ky кыжырланган (displaying anger) · tk gazaply (displaying anger) · da vred (displaying anger) · bg сърди́т (displaying anger) · hi ग़ुस्सा (displaying anger) · te ఆగ్రహం (displaying anger) · pt inflamado (inflamed and painful) · tpi kros (displaying anger) · el θυμωμένος (displaying anger) · sv ilsken (displaying anger) · mk разгневен (displaying anger) · ky ырайымсыз (displaying anger) · uz jahldor (displaying anger) · gd fiadhaich (displaying anger) · pt raivoso (displaying anger) · zdj harimwa usiu (displaying anger) · bn রাগী (displaying anger) · fi vihainen (displaying anger) · hu sajgó (inflamed and painful) · kl ninngappoq (displaying anger) · grc ὀργίλος (displaying anger) · ltg sirdeigs (displaying anger) · bg ядо́сан (displaying anger) · kmr qehirî (displaying anger) · alt ачу (displaying anger) · id marah (displaying anger) · cmn 憤怒的 /愤怒的 (displaying anger) · sdn airatu (displaying anger) · az qızğın (displaying anger) · nrf mârri (displaying anger) · pt irritado (displaying anger) · fy lilk (displaying anger) · mi takariri (displaying anger) · vi tức (displaying anger) · nl kwaad (displaying anger) · cmn 發炎且疼痛的 /发炎且疼痛的 (inflamed and painful) · yi רוגזהדיק (displaying anger) · fr énervé (displaying anger) · pa ਗੁੱਸਾ (displaying anger) · ky штормдуу (аба ырайы (ştormduu (displaying anger) · de zornig (displaying anger) · nrf dguffi (displaying anger) · tl galit (displaying anger) · yi ברוגזדיק (displaying anger) · br droug en unan bennak (displaying anger)

angry en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈæŋ.ɡɹi/ (General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
• [ˈɛŋ-] General American, æ-raising
• [ˈeɪ̯ŋ-] General American, æ-raising
• (California) audio

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂enǵʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *h₂énǵʰosder. Proto-Germanic *angazaz Old Norse angrbor. Middle English anger Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y Middle English angry English angry From Middle English angry, equivalent to anger + -y; see anger.

Meanings

1. (informal, rare) An 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:
   • 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:
   • 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:

Forms

angry en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /ˈæŋ.ɡɹi/ (General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
• [ˈɛŋ-] General American, æ-raising
• [ˈeɪ̯ŋ-] General American, æ-raising
• (California) audio

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂enǵʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *h₂énǵʰosder. Proto-Germanic *angazaz Old Norse angrbor. Middle English anger Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y Middle English angry English angry From Middle English angry, equivalent to anger + -y; see anger.

Meanings

1. (obsolete, transitive) To anger.
   • 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:
   • IT angrying a Country-man to ſee his two Hogs often fighting together, he killed one of them; […] 1689, Philip Ayres, Mythologia Ethica: or, Three Centuries of Æsopian Fables. In English Prose. Done from Æsop, Phædrus, Camerarius, and All Other Eminent Authors on This Subject. […], London: […] Thomas Howkins, […], page 161:
   • Palanice cannot ſpeak unto Cercinea in behalf of Clorian, without angrying me in the perſon of Alcander, and unleſſe ſhe oblige me to raviſh Amilcar from her; […] 1658, Honorè D’Urfe, translated by [John Davies], The Third and Last Volume of Astrea a Romance, London: […] Hum: Moseley, Tho. Dring, and H. Herringman, […], page 284:
   • What doth the repeating thoſe verbs import, but angrying bitterly or grievouſly? 1685, Edward Pococke, A Commentary on the Prophecy of Hosea, Oxford, […], page 708:
   • 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:
   • King Ahab was a good ſervant of the devil, but Ahab had angried God, and God was reſolved he would ſpare him no longer, but cut him off. 1673, England’s Alarm, and a Warning to London, Being a Wonderful Sermon, Preached in the Year 1673, by an Eminent Minister of Christ College, Cambridge, on the Dreadful Conflagration in the Year 1666. […], published 1795, page 24:
   • But the truth was, thoſe former Committees durſt not attempt ſuch a change of their Affairs, for fear of the charge of ſuch a remove; but eſpecially for fear of angrying the Mogul, whoſe people gained exceedingly by our ſhips riding in their Ports, as well as by our Trade, and were out of fear of Bombay, while it was in ſuch a forlorn neglected condition; […] 1689, A Supplement, 1689. to a Former Treatise, Concerning the East-India Trade, Printed 1681., page 8:
   • And this End of God is now made void when ſinners repent not: Men are ſometimes grieved, and ſometimes angried when they are diſappointed in their End; o is God ſaid to be: He complains often of this in the Scriptures, when he is diſappointed in the End of his Corrections; […] 1690, Casuistical Morning-Exercises. The Fourth Volume. By Several Ministers in and about London, Preached in October, 1689., London: […] James Astwood for John Dunton, […]:
   • And what Potiphars wife ſaid with her tongue, ſhe ſaith unto the paſſengers with her geſture and gate, Come lie with me; and nothing angrieth her ſo much, as when modeſt men affect a deafneſſe and will not heare, or a dulneſſe and will not underſtand the language of her behaviour. 1642, Thomas Fuller, “The Harlot”, in The Holy State, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Roger Daniel for John Williams, […], →OCLC, book V (The Profane State), paragraph 3, page 358:
   • 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:
   • 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:
   • Even thy Creatures, how terrible are they, O Lord! all hearts are afraid of thy tempeſts, and melt at thy ſtormes: O let me in this glaſſe of their terror ſee the dreadfull face of thy angried Majeſtie! at which the depths themſelves doe tremble, and the foundations of the world are diſcovered, even as the blaſt of the breath of thy noſtrils, O Lord! And let me never preſume to exalt my ſelfe againſt thee, but ever tremble before thy face. 1650 [i.e., 1649], [William Brough], Sacred Principles, Services, and Soliloquies: or, A Manual of Devotions Made up of Three Parts: […], London: […] J. G. for John Clark, […], page 64:
   • Our temperate Sage, though angried at that spirit of contradiction which he had raised, must, however, have sometimes smiled both on his advocates and his adversaries! 1814, [Isaac D’Israeli], Quarrels of Authors; or, Some Memoirs of Our Literary History, Including Specimens of Controversy to the Reign of Elizabeth, volume III, London: […] John Murray, […], page 30:
   • Yet I am both (replyed ſhe) for my joyes at what he hath done, proceeds principally from his angrying me. 1655, [Madeleine de Scudéry] (indicated as “Monsieur de Scudery”), translated by F. G., The Fifth and Last Volume of Artamenes, or The Grand Cyrus, That Excellent New Romance: Being the Ninth and Tenth Parts, Which Finish the Whole Work, London: […] Humphrey Moseley […] and Thomas Dring […], page 28:
   • 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:
   • 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:

Forms