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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

AN'GRY, a. [See anger.]
1. Feeling resentment; provoked; followed generally by with before a person.
God is angry with the wicked every day. Psalms 7.
But it is usually followed by at before a thing.
Wherefore should God be angry at thy voice? Ecclesiastes 5.
2. Showing anger; wearing the marks of anger; caused by anger; as, an angry countenance; angry words.
3. Inflamed, as a sore; red; manifesting inflammation.
4. Raging; furious; tumultuous.
Or chain the angry vengeance of the waves.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: feeling or showing anger; "angry at the weather"; "angry customers"; "an angry silence"; "sending angry letters to the papers" [ant: unangry]
2: (of the elements) as if showing violent anger; "angry clouds on the horizon"; "furious winds"; "the raging sea" [syn: angry, furious, raging, tempestuous, wild]
3: severely inflamed and painful; "an angry sore"

Merriam Webster's

adjective (angrier; -est) Date: 14th century 1. feeling or showing anger ; wrathful 2. a. indicative of or proceeding from anger <angry words> b. seeming to show anger or to threaten in an angry manner <an angry sky> 3. painfully inflamed <an angry rash> • angrily adverb • angriness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. (angrier, angriest) 1 feeling or showing anger; extremely displeased or resentful. 2 (of a wound, sore, etc.) inflamed, painful. 3 suggesting or seeming to show anger (an angry sky). Derivatives: angrily adv. Etymology: ME, f. ANGER + -Y(1)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Angry An"gry, a. [Compar. Angrier; superl. Angriest.] [See Anger.] 1. Troublesome; vexatious; rigorous. [Obs.] God had provided a severe and angry education to chastise the forwardness of a young spirit. --Jer. Taylor. 2. Inflamed and painful, as a sore. 3. Touched with anger; under the emotion of anger; feeling resentment; enraged; -- followed generally by with before a person, and at before a thing. Be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves. --Gen. xlv. 5. Wherefore should God be angry at thy voice? --Eccles. v. 6. 4. Showing anger; proceeding from anger; acting as if moved by anger; wearing the marks of anger; as, angry words or tones; an angry sky; angry waves. ``An angry countenance.'' --Prov. xxv. 23. 5. Red. [R.] Sweet rose, whose hue, angry and brave. --Herbert. 6. Sharp; keen; stimulated. [R.] I never ate with angrier appetite. --Tennyson. Syn: Passionate; resentful; irritated; irascible; indignant; provoked; enraged; incensed; exasperated; irate; hot; raging; furious; wrathful; wroth; choleric; inflamed; infuriated.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(angrier, angriest) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 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... Are you angry with me for some reason?... I was angry about the rumours... He's angry that people have called him a racist... An angry mob gathered outside the courthouse. ADJ: usu v-link ADJ, oft ADJ at/with/about n • angrily Officials reacted angrily to those charges... ADV: ADV with v

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Provoked, exasperated, irritated, incensed, piqued, galled, chafed, indignant, moody, sulky, irate, ireful, wroth, wrathful, storming, infuriate, infuriated, furious, raging, resentful, hot, inflamed, mad, passionate, in a passion, in a pet, in the tantrums (colloq.), out of humor, out of temper, out of tune.

Moby Thesaurus

acid, acrimonious, aggravated, algetic, anarchic, angered, annoyed, blustering, blusterous, blustery, bothered, browned off, browned-off, bugged, burning, burnt-up, caustic, chafed, chaotic, choleric, cloudy, corrosive, cross, cyclonic, dirty, discontented, disturbed, enraged, exasperated, feeling evil, festering, fiery, foul, frantic, frenzied, fuming, furious, galled, griped, heated, hellish, in a temper, incensed, indignant, inflamed, infuriate, infuriated, insensate, irascible, irate, ireful, irked, irritable, irritated, livid, mad, maddened, miffed, mindless, nettled, orgasmic, orgastic, out of humor, out of sorts, out of temper, pandemoniac, peeved, perturbed, piqued, pissed, pissed off, pissed-off, provoked, put out, raging, rainy, rankling, ravening, raving, raw, red, red-faced, resentful, riled, riled up, riley, rip-roaring, roiled, ruffled, sensitive, shirty, smarting, sore, splenetic, storming, stormy, tempestuous, tender, ticked off, tingling, tornadic, troubled, troublous, tumultuous, turbulent, typhonic, typhoonish, up in arms, uproarious, upset, uptight, vexed, waxy, wild, wild-eyed, worked up, wrathful, wrathy, wroth, wrought up, wrought-up