Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Feeling or showing strong displeasure, hostility, or rage: This is the primary meaning, describing an emotional state of being upset, annoyed, or furious, often because of a perceived wrong or injustice.
   • Severely inflamed and painful: Used to describe a sore, wound, or rash that is red, swollen, and sore.
   • (Of natural elements) As if showing violent anger; wild and stormy: Used figuratively to describe the sky, sea, or weather that appears dark, turbulent, and threatening.

Examples of Usage

• Feeling or showing anger:
  • She was angry with her brother for breaking her toy.
  • The angry customer demanded to speak to the manager.
  • He gave me an angry look.
• Severely inflamed:
  • The cut on his leg became red and angry.
• (Of natural elements):
  • Angry clouds gathered on the horizon before the storm.
  • The angry sea battered the coast.

Advanced Usage

• "to be/get angry with (at) someone": to feel anger directed towards a specific person.
  • Don't be angry with me; it was an accident.
• "to be/get angry about (at) something": to feel anger because of a specific event or thing.
  • He is still angry about the unfair decision.
• "to make someone angry": to cause someone to become angry.
  • His constant interruptions made her very angry.

Variants and Related Words

• Angrily (adverb): in an angry manner.
  • He spoke angrily to the referee.
• Anger (noun): the strong feeling of displeasure and hostility.
  • She struggled to control her anger.

Synonyms

• Furious: Extremely angry.
• Irate: Very angry.
• Indignant: Angry because of something perceived as unfair.
• Wrathful: (Formal/literary) Full of intense anger.
• Annoyed: Mildly angry or irritated.

Related Phrases

• Angry young man: A label for a young man, especially in mid-20th century Britain, who is rebellious and critical of social norms.
• Angry silence: A silence that clearly communicates anger without words.

Idioms

• See red: To become very angry suddenly.
  • When he insulted her family, she saw red.
• Bite someone's head off: To respond to someone with sudden, extreme anger.
  • I just asked a simple question, and she bit my head off.

Adjective

1. severely inflamed and painful
   • an angry sore
2. (of the elements) as if showing violent anger
   • angry clouds on the horizon
   • furious winds
   • the raging sea
3. feeling or showing anger
   • angry at the weather
   • angry customers
   • an angry silence
   • sending angry letters to the papers