angryadjective
uk/ˈæŋ.ɡri/us/ˈæŋ.ɡri/angry adjective (EMOTIONAL)
A2 having a strong feeling against someone who has behaved badly, making you want to shout at them or hurt them:
He's really angry at/with me for upsetting Sophie.
I don't understand what he's angry about.
[ + that ] They feel angry that their complaints were ignored.
I got really angry with her.
It made me really angry.
More examples
- As she left the court, she was confronted by angry crowds who tried to block her way.
- I understand why she was angry but there was no need to be so rude to him.
- I was so angry I just slammed the phone down.
- The local residents were angry at the lack of parking spaces.
- Her speech was interrupted by angry shouts from the audience.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Angry and displeased
- acrimonious
- aggrieved
- amused
- annoyed
- apoplectic
- blistering
- exasperated
- fed up
- fed up to the back teeth idiom
- fit to be tied idiom
- furious
- huff
- incandescent
- incense
- outrage
- peeved
- pique
- pissed off
- rancour
- scalp
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angry adjective (STORMY)
literary An angry sea or sky is one where there is a storm, or where it looks as if there will be a storm soon.
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Precipitation: stormy weather
- blow up
- bolt
- cyclone
- funnel cloud
- gale-force
- hailstorm
- hurricane
- ice storm
- lightning
- rainstorm
- sheet lightning
- snowstorm
- squall
- stormy
- tempest
- thunder
- thunderbolt
- thundery
- tornado
- typhoon
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angry adjective (PAINFUL)
If an infected area of the body is angry, it is red and painful:
On her leg was an angry sore.
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Swellings & lumps
- acoustic neuroma
- adenoma hyperplastic nodules
- angioma
- aortic aneurysm
- atypical lipoma
- goitre
- inflammatory
- leiomyoma
- lump
- lymphoedema
- mastitis
- neoplasm
- neoplastic
- oedema
- pancreatic mass
- polyp
- puffy
- swelling
- swollen
- turgid
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angrily
adverb uk/ˈæŋ.ɡrəl.i/us/ˈæŋ.ɡrəl.i/
B1
"Don't do that!" she shouted angrily.
Demonstrators protested angrily following the jury's verdict.
The prime minister reacted angrily to claims that he had lied to the House of Commons.