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An·gry a. [Compar. Angrier superl. Angriest.]
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.”
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.
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angry
adj 1: feeling or showing anger; "angry at the weather"; "angry
customers"; "an angry silence"; "sending angry letters
to the papers" [ant: unangry(p)]
2: (of the elements) as if showing violent anger; "angry clouds
on the horizon"; "furious winds"; "the raging sea" [syn: furious,
raging, tempestuous, wild]
3: severely inflamed and painful; "an angry sore"
[also: angriest, angrier]