Definition of ANGRY

angry

Adjective

  • Feeling or showing strong displeasure or hostility.
  • feeling or showing anger
    • "angry at the weather"
    • "angry customers"
    • "an angry silence"
    • "sending angry letters to the papers"

Adjective Satellite

  • (of the elements) as if showing violent anger
    • "angry clouds on the horizon"
  • severely inflamed and painful
    • "an angry sore"

Adj

  • Displaying or feeling anger.
  • Inflamed and painful.
  • Dark and stormy, menacing.

Verb

  • To anger.

Examples

  • An angry mob started looting the warehouse.
  • Angry clouds raced across the sky.
  • He gave an ANGRY glare at the tile bag after drawing his third ’I’.
  • His face became angry.
  • The broken glass left two angry cuts across my arm.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English angry; see anger.

Synonyms

furious, raging, tempestuous, wild, angry, annoyed, apoplectic, bad-tempered, berserk, big mad, blood-boiling, boiling mad, cheesed off, choleric, cross, enraged, fit to be tied, fuming, furibund, fury, glimflashy, hopping mad, ill-natured, incensed, infuriated, irate, ired, ireful, irritated, little mad, livid, mad, mad as a bear with a sore head, p'd off, pathetic, pissed, pissed off, pissy, psyched up, ready to be tied, screwfaced, seething, sore, spitting chips, splenetic, steaming, up on one's ear, upset, vexed, waxy, wode, worked up, wrathful, wroth, zowerswopped

Antonyms

unangry, calm, sanguine, serene

Scrabble Score: 9

angry: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
angry: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
angry: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 10

angry: valid Words With Friends Word