Word forms: comparative angrier, superlative angriest
1. adjective [usually verb-link ADJECTIVE]
When you are angry, you feel strong dislike or impatience about something.
She had been very angry at the person who stole her new bike. [+ at]
Are you angry with me for some reason? [+ with]
I was angry about the rumours. [+ about]
He's angry that people have called him a racist.
An angry mob gathered outside the courthouse.
angrily (æŋgrɪli)adverb [ADVERB with verb]
Officials reacted angrily to those charges.
Health workers are angrily demanding higher pay.
2. graded adjective
An angry wound or rash is red and painful.
He was badly concussed, the glass leaving two angry cuts across his forehead.
Synonyms: inflamed, severe, painful, nasty More Synonyms of angry
3. graded adjective
If you describe the sky or sea as angry, you mean that it is dark and stormy.
[literary]
Under the angry red sky he ran, into the thickening darkness.
Synonyms: threatening, forbidding, grim, menacing More Synonyms of angry
More Synonyms of angry
angry in British English
(ˈæŋɡrɪ)
adjectiveWord forms: -grier or -griest
1.
feeling or expressing annoyance, animosity, or resentment; enraged
2.
suggestive of anger
angry clouds
3.
severely inflamed
an angry sore
▶ USAGE It was formerly considered incorrect to talk about being angry at a person, but this use is now acceptable
Derived forms
angrily (ˈangrily)
adverb
angry in American English
(ˈæŋgri)
adjectiveWord forms: ˈangrier or ˈangriest
1.
feeling, showing, or resulting from anger
an angry reply
2.
wild and stormy, as if angry
an angry sea
3.
inflamed and sore
an angry wound
Derived forms
angrily (ˈangrily) (ˈæŋgrəli)
adverb
angriness (ˈangriness) (ˈæŋgrinɪs)
noun
Word origin
ME angri, troubled < anger
Examples of 'angry' in a sentence
angry
And their manager looked angry when he finally emerged to carry out his media duties.
The Sun (2016)
Sometimes people got angry because they disagreed with it.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
You feel angry but it is hard to justify.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
When the manager gets angry you accept it and learn from it.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Costa ran to the corner and then put on his angry face.
The Sun (2017)
He was reportedly obliged to leave London under a police escort, pursued by an angry mob.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
She fumed: 'I am angry at what has happened.
The Sun (2017)
They have also made us, research suggests, angrier against people who hold different political views.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Sometimes you get angry with yourself because you got angry.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Understandably this makes people angry and angry with them.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
IT'S enough to leave us with an angry face.
The Sun (2015)
Young people have reason to be angry.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
The abandoned cars are thought to have been vandalised and emptied by an angry mob.
The Sun (2014)
Soon the skin on her arm became red and angry.
Steel, Elizabeth Coping With Sudden Hair Loss (1988)
We had a big row and he got really angry with me.
The Sun (2013)
It makes me angry just looking at it.
The Sun (2014)
He gets really angry and shuts me off.
The Sun (2015)
Too many important people are too angry for there not to be change.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
He faced angry scenes three weeks ago at a similar meeting.
The Sun (2008)
Are we still discussing baldness or are you angry about something?
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
He looked as angry as you can when you actually look like a labrador puppy.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Certainly getting angry with them was not going to help.
Martin, April The Guide to Lesbian and Gay Parenting (1993)
It makes me feel very angry.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Did you feel angry with him?
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
He would get really angry then.
Leo McKinstry Sir Alf: A Major Reappraisal of the Life and Times of England's Greatest FootballManager (2006)
When something goes wrong, the natural reaction is to pen an angry letter of complaint.
The Sun (2008)
There will be red, angry hives all over her face and neck.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Quotations
When angry, count four; when very angry, swearMark TwainPudd'nhead Wilson
In other languages
angry
British English: angry /ˈæŋɡrɪ/ ADJECTIVE
When you are angry, you feel strong emotion about something that you consider unfair, cruel, or insulting.
She was angry at her husband.
American English: angry
Arabic: غَاضِب
Brazilian Portuguese: com raiva
Chinese: 愤怒的
Croatian: ljut
Czech: rozzlobený
Danish: vred
Dutch: boos
European Spanish: enfadado
Finnish: vihainen
French: en colère
German: wütend
Greek: θυμωμένος
Italian: arrabbiato
Japanese: 怒った
Korean: 화난
Norwegian: sint
Polish: zły rozgniewany
European Portuguese: zangado
Romanian: furios
Russian: сердитый
Latin American Spanish: enfadado
Swedish: arg
Thai: โกรธ
Turkish: kızgın
Ukrainian: сердитий
Vietnamese: tức giận
Chinese translation of 'angry'
angry
(ˈæŋɡrɪ)
adj
[person, response]生气(氣)的 (shēngqì de)
[wound, rash]发(發)炎的 (fāyán de)
to be angry with sb/about sth对(對)某人/某事生气(氣) (duì mǒurén/mǒushì shēngqì)
to get angry发(發)怒 (fānù)
to make sb angry使某人生气(氣) (shǐ mǒurén shēngqì)
angry 指某人在特定时间或场合的情绪或感觉。如果某人经常生气，可以说他是 bad-tempered。 She's a bad-tempered young lady. 可以用 furious 描述某人非常生气。 Senior police officers are furious at the mistake.annoyed 或 irritated 表示某人生气的程度不是很重。 The Prime Minister looked annoyed but calm ... a man irritated by the barking of his neighbour's dog ... 如果一件事情经常或不断发生，它会使人感到 irritated。如果某个人经常感到恼火，可以用 irritable 形容他。
她非常生气(氣)，因为(為)他又迟(遲)到了 tā fēicháng shēngqì, yīnwèi tā yòu chídào le
1 (adjective)
Definition
feeling or expressing annoyance or rage
an angry rant
Synonyms
furious
He is furious at the way he has been treated.
cross
Everyone was getting bored and cross.
heated
It was a very heated argument.
mad (informal)
I'm pretty mad about it, I can tell you.
raging
Inside, she was raging.
provoked
outraged
annoyed
She tapped her forehead and looked annoyed with herself.
passionate
She has a passionate temper.
irritated
Not surprisingly, her teacher is getting irritated with her.
raving
hacked (off) (US, slang)
choked
pissed (taboo, slang)
Why is she so pissed at you?
infuriated
She realized how infuriated this would make me.
hot
His hot temper was making it difficult for others to work with him.
incensed
She was incensed at his lack of compassion.
enraged
The enraged crowd marched through the streets.
ranting
exasperated
She was clearly exasperated by the delay.
irritable
He had been waiting for an hour and was starting to feel irritable.
resentful
He turned away in a resentful silence.
nettled
He was nettled by her casual manner.
snappy
indignant
She is indignant at suggestions that they were secret agents.
pissed off (taboo, slang)
irate
He was so irate he almost threw me out of the place.
tumultuous
displeased
uptight (informal)
riled
up in arms
incandescent
It makes me incandescent with fury.
ill-tempered
irascible
antagonized
waspish
Her tone was somewhat waspish and abrupt.
piqued
hot under the collar (informal)
Some of them were getting very hot under the collar about tax issues.
on the warpath
hopping mad (informal)
foaming at the mouth
choleric
He plays a choleric old schoolmaster.
splenetic
wrathful
He feared his stern and wrathful father.
at daggers drawn
in high dudgeon
as black as thunder
ireful
fit to be tied (slang)
tooshie (Australian, slang)
off the air (Australian, slang)
aerated
Opposites
loving
,
happy
,
pleased
,
friendly
,
calm
,
peaceful
,
pleasant
,
mild
,
gratified
,
agreeable
,
amiable
,
congenial
2 (adjective)
Definition
severely inflamed
He had two angry cuts across his forehead.
Synonyms
inflamed
Her eyes were sore and inflamed.
severe
painful
Her glands were swollen and painful.
nasty
Lili had a nasty chest infection.
swollen
My eyes were so swollen I could hardly see.
sore
My chest is still sore from the surgery.
3 (adjective)
Definition
dark and stormy
Under the angry red sky I ran into the thickening darkness.
Synonyms
threatening
a threatening atmosphere of rising tension and stress
forbidding
There was something severe and forbidding about her face.
grim
They painted a grim picture of growing crime.
menacing
His bushy eyebrows gave his face a menacing look.
sinister
There was something sinister about him that she found disturbing.
ominous
There was an ominous silence at the other end of the phone.
baleful
He had a baleful look.
inauspicious
The meeting got off to an inauspicious start.
Usage note
Some people feel it is more correct to talk about being angry with someone than being angry at them. In British English, angry with is still more common than angry at, but angry at is used more commonly in American English.
Quotation
When angry, count four; when very angry, swear [Mark Twain – Pudd'nhead Wilson]
Additional synonyms
in the sense of annoyed
She tapped her forehead and looked annoyed with herself.