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angry

To be angry is to be furious. People who get angry a lot have a short temper.

This is a word for a common emotion: being mad or enraged. People get mad all the time, about traffic, homework, parents, children, and even the weather. When you're angry it's hard to think straight: you see red. The sea could be described as angry when its waves ferociously crash the beach. Some synonyms for anger are furious, raging, and tempestuous. If you're feeling angry, you should blow off steam or count to 10 instead of doing something you'll regret.

DEFINITIONS OF: angry

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adj feeling or showing anger

angry at the weather”
angry customers”
“an angry silence”
“sending angry letters to the papers”
Synonyms
aggravated, provoked
incited, especially deliberately, to anger
angered, enraged, furious, infuriated, maddened
marked by extreme anger
black
marked by anger or resentment or hostility
choleric, irascible
characterized by anger
hot under the collar
very angry
huffy, mad, sore
roused to anger
incensed, indignant, outraged, umbrageous
angered at something unjust or wrong
irate, ireful
feeling or showing extreme anger
livid
furiously angry
smoldering, smouldering
showing scarcely suppressed anger
wrathful, wroth, wrothful
vehemently incensed and condemnatory
Antonyms:
unangry
not angry

adj (of the elements) as if showing violent anger

angry clouds on the horizon”
Synonyms:
furious, raging, tempestuous, wild
stormy
(especially of weather) affected or characterized by storms or commotion

adj severely inflamed and painful

“an angry sore”
Synonyms
unhealthy
not in or exhibiting good health in body or mind
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