anger
(æŋgəʳ )
Word forms: angers , angering , angered
1. uncountable noun B2
Anger is the strong emotion that you feel when you think that someone has behaved in an unfair, cruel, or unacceptable way.
He cried with anger and frustration.
Ellen felt both despair and anger at her mother. [+ at]
Synonyms: rage, passion, outrage, temper
2. verb
If something angers you, it makes you feel angry.
The decision to allow more offshore oil drilling angered some Californians. [VERB noun]
Synonyms: enrage, provoke, outrage, annoy
Image of anger
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Quotations:
Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a changeMalcolm X Speaks
Anger is a short madnessEpistles
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than loveThe Mill on the Floss
Never let the sun go down on your anger
Collocations:
anger easily anger fans control anger deep anger display anger experience anger express anger face anger feel anger feeling of anger flash of anger fuel anger intense anger mounting anger pent-up anger provoke anger repressed anger righteous anger spark anger stir anger suppress anger tears of anger trigger anger voice anger voter anger widespread anger
You're naturally unhappy if you... anger easily, are self-conscious, anxious and unsociable.
The Sun
He seemed to anger easily... there was a difference in his attitude.
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They are extremely haughty, anger easily, and like to toy with prey before finishing it off.
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Described as a laborer, he was also delineated as being a calm man, not angered easily, and kind to people and animals.
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The revelation will anger fans who believe the club could have done more to keep arguably the finest player in their history.
The Sun (2015)
The move will anger fans who paid up to 1,000 for an access-all-areas ticket but were banned from drinking alcohol behind the scenes.
The Sun (2009)
News of the repeated relaunches may anger fans who must decide whether to pay 50 for a new shirt every season, particularly those who have only recently bought the present kit.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
For instance, under the subheading skills, they rate themselves on the ability to control anger and manage conflict, the capacity to adjust to changing situations, and other interpersonal skills.
Christianity Today
When a student was placed into the centre, they were set tasks in order to help control anger issues and behaviour.
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The hadis state various ways to diminish, prevent and control anger.
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To control anger and the non-existence of anger are two different things.
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In modern times, the concept of controlling anger has translated into anger management programs based on the research of psychologists.
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Even if people are silent, you can sense the deep anger.
Times, Sunday Times
There's something broken and skewed in them; they're working out this deep anger, and you just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Christianity Today
A five-month postal strike also led to deep anger amongst people all over the country.
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I think he loves some of it, some of it that displayed anger.
The Sun
He never displayed anger or seemed a threat.
Times, Sunday Times
The bosses with more power were more likely to use coercive or 'strong tactics,' such as criticizing employees, making demands, and displaying anger.
Christianity Today
With their friends and family she was utterly engaging, yet at home she was remote, mechanical and disruptive without ever displaying anger.
Times, Sunday Times
He rarely displays anger toward his prime suspect, though he sometimes becomes frustrated with other characters.
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Make a conscious effort to be confessional, letting them know you experience anger and personality clashes with others in the church too.
Christianity Today
If he couldn't experience anger, doubt and despair, where would the fun be?
Times, Sunday Times
It's devoid of personality or pathos, so we don't experience anger or even a secret admiration.
Times, Sunday Times
We also experienced anger; in many ways this was not a move we were eager to make.
Christianity Today
Individuals experiencing anger often seek professional treatment (anger management) to help understand why they feel the way they do and how to cope.
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We try to express anger in positive ways and not at one another.
Christianity Today
I want to express anger in a way that will motivate people to great accomplishment, not belittle them in order to make me feel better.
Christianity Today
So we learn to keep the peace, or become the peacemaker, by putting our own wants and needs aside (including the need to express anger).
Times, Sunday Times
Learn how to express anger safely.
The Sun
They come bubbling up from the depths of our personalities in times of stress, to express anger, frustration, surprise and joy.
Times, Sunday Times
I know how painful it has been to face anger and frustration on the doorstep.
Times, Sunday Times
Pay less than your fair share of tax and you face anger.
Times, Sunday Times
The state government faces anger over its slow response.
Times, Sunday Times
The bank has faced anger over 607million bonuses amid annual losses of 5.2billion.
The Sun
But they all faced anger and hostility for their insistence on confronting suffering and pain without emotion.
The Times Literary Supplement
You may feel anger and guilt.
The Sun (2013)
Malone felt the anger boil up in him, but somehow he sat on it.
YESTERDAY'S SHADOW (2002)
How could anyone watch this programme without feeling anger, frustration and disgust?
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
It is no way to live, to feel anger and hatred.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
I felt anger, sadness and misery.
The Sun (2013)
Many project their emotions and impulses on to others and have a generalised feeling of anger and hostility.
Times, Sunday Times
There was a growing feeling of anger and hostility towards us.
Times, Sunday Times
You can carry the hatred, the revenge, the betrayal, the feeling of anger towards those who did that to you, to your people, to your country.
Times, Sunday Times
First, the client learns to identify situations that can potentially trigger the feeling of anger.
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He describes his feelings of anger and bewilderment, and about the fear that comes at five o'clock in the morning.
Times, Sunday Times
Then she shows a rare flash of anger.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
It was scarlet in colour, and there was a flash of anger in her eyes.
Wives and Daughters (1864)
asked Mr Golightly, feeling a flash of anger that the death of his friend and neighbour should be so summarily dismissed.
MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY (2003)
It's stories such as this that fuel anger about ticket resale websites, touts and the scams often linked with them.
Times, Sunday Times
A place where every attack can be used to fuel anger among his people and panic in the ranks of his enemies.
Times, Sunday Times
Police clashes with crowds are already fuelling anger and a crackdown might well prove counterproductive.
Times, Sunday Times
Hardline strikers accused provocateurs of staging the sabotage to discredit them by fuelling anger over the chaos inflicted by the stoppages.
Times, Sunday Times
He blamed those who had complained about his letter for fuelling anger online.
Times, Sunday Times
Some survivors feel intense anger and hatred; others experience remorse or guilt.
Christianity Today
You also describe your intense anger because he left without a backwards glance.
Times, Sunday Times
The timing of his criticisms provoked intense anger as he was accused by teachers and students' leaders of 'demoralising' and 'demotivating' pupils.
Times, Sunday Times
There's intense anger or hatred that needs release.
The Sun
Intense anger has been the primary emotion.
Times, Sunday Times
But despite all the rhetoric, there was fear and mounting anger.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Their move adds to the mounting anger of public-sector union members at lower than expected pay settlements.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
The public fury over British fuel prices comes amid mounting anger over government plans for massive hikes in road tax.
The Sun (2008)
There's a lot of pent-up anger and frustration.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
cried Holly, her pent-up anger at his proposal finally breaking through the embarrassment and fear.
THE ANCIENT AND SOLITARY REIGN (1996)
I venture that these seemingly wanton acts of destruction were down to pent-up anger from his childhood.
The Sun (2012)
But the cases that do come to light provoke anger and revulsion.
Times, Sunday Times
Such a move would provoke anger from some.
The Sun
The revelation of his enormous entitlement will provoke anger among his critics.
Times, Sunday Times
And we let them, because the word 'constitution' induces apathy where it should provoke anger.
Times, Sunday Times
It will appear extraordinary that the educational efforts of a great public institution should provoke anger among those who nominally uphold intellectual inquiry.
Times, Sunday Times
Repressed anger can also manifest itself in a general resentment.
Christianity Today
All the repressed anger and sadness comes bubbling to the surface.
Times, Sunday Times
As we probed the subject of multiple-staff relationships, we heard about acute frustration, repressed anger, discouragement, and deep personal hurt.
Christianity Today
A symptom may be a derivative of repressed anger, but urging a patient to acknowledge this will not result in awareness.
Globe and Mail
The reply was that he used to have repressed anger issues.
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He was independent, a man of integrity and full of righteous anger.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
I was hurt by this apparent rejection, and the hurt turned to righteous anger.
Christianity Today (2000)
In that case the government might find it impossible to restrain the righteous anger of the House of Commons.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Any proposal to impose harsher taxes in residential property would spark anger among homeowners.
Times, Sunday Times
The revelations will spark anger among hard-working taxpayers.
The Sun
But it has sparked anger among his two million members battling rising bills on low pay.
The Sun
The costs sparked anger as the military struggles to cope with spending cuts.
The Sun
It sparked anger from small firms, who say it will hit their businesses.
The Sun
Admittedly, icons have stirred anger and controversy in church history.
Christianity Today
Today that stirs angers in us that we still barely understand and still struggle to discuss rationally.
Times, Sunday Times
The case has stirred anger against the royal family.
Times, Sunday Times
Forced assimilation ultimately backfires, stirring anger and division.
Times, Sunday Times
This stirred anger amongst the crowd.
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For instance, infants have been observed attempting to suppress anger or sadness by knitting their brow or compressing their lips.
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It also describes those who suppress anger, restrict social behavior, withdraw in the face of novelty, and have a long latency to interact with strangers.
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Her words were simple and strong and delivered with a suppressed anger that moved even the rebel activists inside the media centre to silence.
Times, Sunday Times
She'd wept tears of anger at his funeral.
Times, Sunday Times
I put the phone down and cry tears of anger and frustration.
The Sun
She can only force out a few words at a time before breaking down in tears of anger and exhaustion.
Times, Sunday Times
And he admits there will be tears of anger, frustration and despair as he takes on the toughest challenge of his life.
The Sun
But the hefty sum will still trigger anger from customers struggling to pay mortgages and getting little return on savings from the world's largest building society.
The Sun
It could also trigger anger among businesses and personal users.
Times, Sunday Times
However, the announcement triggered anger among consumer groups.
Times, Sunday Times
His comments last week triggered anger among teachers in both the private and state sector.
Times, Sunday Times
He said in many cases the population appeared too weak to voice anger at what they had been through.
Times, Sunday Times
Human rights groups have voiced anger and frustration about the apparent reluctance of the authorities to pursue the case.
Times, Sunday Times
According to club sources, the ultimatum came as top-flight outfits voiced anger at the proposals.
The Sun
And he voiced anger that ten of 14 firms snubbed his invite to talks.
The Sun
At the third stage, voter anger over failed outcomes, such as a recession, forces the reluctant majority among politicians to accept reforms they did not want.
The Times Literary Supplement
He refused to rule out increases to fund moves to tackle voter anger, in his annual financial blueprint.
The Sun
He benefited from voter anger over the 2005 legislative pay raise.
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Many of these populists are now in national parliaments, speaking up for voters angered by the sacrifices demanded of them in the absence of a coherent migration strategy.
Times, Sunday Times
There has been widespread anger in Birmingham at the length and complexity of the investigations under way.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
These operations have made more than 250,000 people flee their homes and caused widespread anger.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
There is widespread anger at the regime, but anger also at the protesters causing such disruption.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Translations:
Chinese: 愤怒, 使气愤
Japanese: 怒り, 怒らせる
- pain and suffering
- pain barrier
- pained
- pained expression
- pain etched
- painful
- painful adjustment
- painful bite
- painful blisters
- painful childhood
- painful choice
- painful condition
- painful consequences
- painful cramp
- painful cut
- painful death
- painful decision
- painful defeat
- painful detail
- painful divorce
- painful emotions
- painful episode
- painful experience
- painful feeling
- painful illness