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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
angry
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a violent/angry protest
▪ Three people died yesterday in violent protests against the war.
a violent/angry reaction
▪ The artists were surprised by the violent reactions to their work.
an angry denial
▪ There were angry denials of corruption in the police force.
an angry exchange
▪ His angry exchange with the referee earned him a yellow card.
an angry response
▪ His comments sparked an angry response from opposition politicians.
an angry/furious expression
▪ Her angry expression turned to one of utter despair.
an angry/threatening gesture
▪ One of the men made a threatening gesture, and I ran.
angry
▪ Beth’s angry face stared fiercely at her husband.
caused...angry
▪ The proposed changes caused an angry outcry from residents.
emotional/violent/angry outburst
▪ his father’s violent outbursts of temper
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
▪ I was as angry as hell.
▪ She was as angry as he.
▪ If she had been angry before, she was twice as angry now.
▪ Or not as angry as the others.
▪ He's as angry as it is possible for a human being to be.
▪ I never witnessed a serious quarrel or observed anyone I would describe as angry.
▪ Damian was just as angry, and his eyes leapt with blue rage as he stared down at her.
▪ Strong, dedicated, skilful, passionate, intelligent and as angry as hell.
even
▪ That made Liz even angrier - too angry to go and see lane.
▪ She was even angrier than I had hoped.
▪ The former soldier grew even angrier when he tried to cut through the metal with the hacksaw but failed.
▪ But now that the scene was taking place, he felt quite disappointed, even angry.
▪ You'd be very disappointed, even angry, but it would still be beautiful.
▪ If I resisted, he would get even angrier.
▪ But when we next talked he was even angrier.
▪ And when speech gave way to the rhythmic breathing and small cries or even angry groans that I never tired of overhearing?
more
▪ Quite often a series of progressively unpleasant interchanges will take place with the child becoming more obstinate and the parent more angry.
▪ According to the literature Carol herself might be angry at her father and somehow even more angry at Lois.
▪ She was more angry than scared.
▪ Prosecutors, who were already furious with Bailey, soon got a reason to be even more angry with him.
▪ Parents who give in to a toddler's temper will increase the likelihood of tantrums recurring and find themselves becoming more angry.
▪ It only made him more angry.
▪ As she did her hair she was getting more and more angry with its tangles.
▪ John Durnford-Slater would have accepted this sailor's surrender, but a more angry commando shot the bomber dead.
really
▪ He was angry, really angry.
▪ If they're losing at half-time, make them really angry.
▪ Each situation is then rated on a five point scale according to whether it just bothers them a little or makes them really angry.
▪ But I did not feel really angry.
▪ He'd probably like me to get really angry.
▪ She began to get really angry.
▪ I was really angry about it.
▪ Heaven knows what they say when they are really angry with some one.
so
▪ Fen had seen her angry before, but never so angry that she had lashed out physically as well as verbally.
▪ But it was as if I was out of control, I was so angry....
▪ Within two days the mood had turned so angry that Mr Williams called another meeting for the following night.
▪ Karen had seldom seen him so angry.
▪ Think about why you are so angry.
▪ Dilip was so angry I was afraid he might have a heart attack.
▪ I used to get so angry on the set that one day I just blew my top and hit John Huston.
▪ Why were people on both sides so angry?
still
▪ He was still angry about the coat.
▪ Nield is still angry and tried to reach the two black neighbors on his street by telephone to apologize.
▪ From the noise she made, it was clear that she was still angry but Constance wasn't frightened.
▪ Residents still angry at the flood would still be angry at her, to use the best meatball psychology I know.
▪ He watched the gun and the girl's face, but he was not really afraid because he was still angry.
▪ Are they still angry or are others angry at them?
▪ She was still angry with him, but at the same time, she felt a stirring of interest.
▪ She was still angry with Luke - he had been thoughtless, and surprisingly insensitive.
too
▪ But Cassie was far too angry to be wooed.
▪ They then become defensive, withdrawn, or too angry themselves to care about your feelings.
▪ That made Liz even angrier - too angry to go and see lane.
▪ But Odysseus was too angry to leave in prudent silence.
▪ A wild Squig is far too angry to take any psychology or other leadership tests.
▪ Primo was too angry to talk to anyone.
▪ I didn't come to the funeral because I was too angry.
▪ Mike's too angry and upset to do anything.
very
▪ Before they were in power some Khmer Rouge were very angry with old government, because they were very poor.
▪ Still he must obey, which makes him very angry.
▪ Of course I refused with much indignation, and he grew very angry.
▪ He became very angry and galloped home.
▪ Female speaker Very angry, very angry.
▪ She was more angry than scared. Very angry, terribly angry.
▪ I was very angry about this letter.
▪ He also felt angry, very angry, because of the effect it must have had on Celia.
■ NOUN
crowd
▪ This cosy arrangement upset a lot of people and an angry crowd gathered outside the palace.
▪ An angry crowd of black people.
▪ Some were dragged out of their cars and butchered by angry crowds in the street.
▪ An angry crowd gathered, confronting the police, who showed little interest in dispersing them, and began taunting the marshals.
▪ Your cousin caught Hyde and an angry crowd collected.
▪ His family, meanwhile, insisted he acted out of desperation to save himself and his pregnant fiancee from an angry crowd.
face
▪ Her fingers never reached his dark, arrogant and angry face.
▪ He shouldered her aside and let the door slam on her angry face.
▪ Then he saw the reflection of his own angry face.
▪ She always smiled and only put on an angry face when she was being teased.
▪ She scanned Leo's angry face helplessly.
▪ She had a thin angry face and thin yellow hair.
letter
▪ But nothing had prepared her for the angry letter she received from the Duke of Edinburgh, says Morton.
▪ A few days later, an angry letter to the editor ran in the New York Post.
▪ His fans wrote angry letters to newspapers.
▪ He refused to eat, the stupid man, and he sent me some angry letters.
▪ Dealers flooded Congress with angry letters.
protest
▪ The decision led to demonstrations and angry protests outside government buildings and parliament in Dublin.
▪ The exhibit was spotlighted by Phoenix-area media because of an angry protest March 24 by veterans groups.
▪ The leaks provoked angry protests from citizens and environmentalists.
response
▪ It earned an angry response from a teachers' union leader, Nigel de Gruchy.
▪ There are so many ways in which our intolerance will trigger an angry response either in ourselves or others.
▪ Contesting that remark would only provoke an angry response from the boy.
▪ As can happen all too often, there's an angry response, and arrests are made.
voice
▪ She was beginning to hear that strident, angry voice in her sleep.
▪ She had gone to sleep on the angry voices whose muted sounds came upstairs like a warning fog.
▪ There were often angry voices in the castle these days, Johann told us.
▪ Hector, who had been gambolling about the porch, slunk in behind her, depressed by the angry voices.
▪ As the angry voices rose higher and higher other black-gowned figures came in.
▪ Some way ahead in the bushes a horse bellowed, and Cynan's angry voice roared defiance.
▪ That evening, Connor was behind the counter in the saloon when he heard angry voices in the public bar.
word
▪ I cried because of his angry words.
▪ Now, in the solace of the night, with its bullies and angry words and fists absent, I liked it.
▪ The campaigners' angry words were formed by torches, lights and sparklers.
▪ First, there were the angry words.
▪ But look how bitterly you remember every angry word!
▪ Diana always yanks on her hand viciously, all angry words and spit flying.
▪ Years later she told me she could never remember an angry word between them.
▪ He was sitting directly above the cellar door, close enough to the kitchen door to hear their angry words.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a harsh/a cross/an angry etc word
guilty/shy/mad/angry etc as hell
▪ I was as angry as hell.
▪ Lucy was shy as hell, and Jay was sure and easy.
▪ She washed spiders down the plughole, and felt guilty as hell about it.
▪ Strong, dedicated, skilful, passionate, intelligent and as angry as hell.
▪ The Jaguar is reported to have crashed in a distant country, mad as hell.
▪ These people were mad as hell.
▪ Whenever her family had been mentioned she looked as guilty as hell.
have a right to be angry/concerned/suspicious etc
surprised/angry/pleased etc isn't the word for it
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ After the programme, the TV station received hundreds of angry phone calls.
▪ an angry letter
▪ Hundreds of angry students gathered to protest the tuition increase.
▪ I could hear my parents having an angry argument downstairs.
▪ I was stunned and angry when I found out.
▪ Local people are angry that they weren't told about plans to expand the airport.
▪ Mary's angry that we didn't save her any pizza.
▪ My dad gets really angry if anyone keeps him waiting.
▪ My folks were really angry about my grades.
▪ Stone's new book is sure to make a lot of women angry.
▪ Sue's still very angry with me for forgetting our anniversary.
▪ There were more angry protests outside the Republican convention Friday.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And I don't in the least understand why you're so angry!
▪ Connahs Quay were angry over Halkyn's decision to call off their match at Pant Newydd an hour before the scheduled start.
▪ Daniel looked at the angry sea with its terrible waves, and he felt cold and frightened.
▪ His angry partners cut off his access to all bank accounts and halted payment of his share of the monthly profits.
▪ His minders were angry with us when we said and wrote that he is no great orator.
▪ However, many years have passed since those angry days.
▪ It earned an angry response from a teachers' union leader, Nigel de Gruchy.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Angry

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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
angry

late 14c., from anger (n.) + -y (2). Originally "full of trouble, vexatious;" sense of "enraged, irate" also is from late 14c. The Old Norse adjective was ongrfullr "sorrowful," and Middle English had angerful "anxious, eager" (mid-13c.). The phrase angry young man dates to 1941 but was popularized in reference to the play "Look Back in Anger" (produced 1956) though it does not occur in that work.\n

\n"There are three words in the English language that end in -gry. Two of them are angry and hungry. What is the third?" There is no third (except some extremely obscure ones). Richard Lederer calls this "one of the most outrageous and time-wasting linguistic hoaxes in our nation's history" and traces it to a New York TV quiz show from early 1975.

Wiktionary
angry

a. Displaying or feeling anger.

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WordNet
angry

  1. adj. 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"

  4. [also: angriest, angrier]

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Wikipedia
Angry (disambiguation)

Angry is the adjective derived from the emotion of anger.

Angry may also refer to:

  • "Angry" (1925 song)
  • "Angry" (Matchbox Twenty song)
  • "Angry," a song by Quiet Riot from Alive and Well
Angry (1925 song)

"Angry" is a popular song, with lyrics by Dudley Mecum and music by Henry Brunies, Merritt Brunies, and Jules Cassard, written in 1925.

The song is considered a barbershop quartet standard and was used as the signature song of popular big band bandleader leader Harry Lawrence "Tiny" Hill. Hill made three recordings of the song, the first being on Vocalion Records #4957 on June 1, 1939. Hill's later recordings were both released on Mercury Records in 1946 #1053 (recorded 1945) and #6001. Earl Hines and his orchestra recorded the song on 13 September 1934, in an arrangement by bassist Quinn Wilson.

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Usage examples of "angry".

I was angry with myself for going aground - we could not haul the ship round to bring all the guns to bear where we wan ted them.

He hardly knew whether to be angry with Donovan Farrant for alluding to matters which brought a look of sadness to her eyes, or to thank him for the story which made her face light up with indignation and look, if possible, more beautiful than before.

Thornier sucked in a slow breath between his teeth, stared angrily at his employer for a moment, and seemed briefly ready to unleash an angry blast.

Bandar could imagine Malabar and the angry hydromants, standing along the south wall, eyeing the darkness beyond the shantytown and waiting for the first glint of spear and halberd in the grip of massive Bololos who were themselves no less in the grasp of an archetypical holy violence.

The artilleryman was very angry and vexed at that, and his love drew him so powerfully that he said that he wished to marry the slave-girl.

She thought about him until dawn, convinced at last of her love, and as the anisette left her in slow waves, she was invaded by the anguished fear that he was angry and would never return.

Being angry was a relief, but it was not exactly a solution, and Bernard, at last, leaving his place, where for an hour or two he had been absolutely unconscious of everything that went on around him, wandered about for some time in deep restlessness and irritation.

Ryan, his hand smoothing uneasily over his crown, staring after them, his face a blotchy rash of angry colour.

He threw himself into Bootstrap affairs, but it was obvious he was trying to distract himself: angry, vigorous, frustrated, burning up nervous energy.

Allanon turned his attention to Brin now, ignoring the angry highlander.

When angry it growls most audibly for such a small beast, and this is generally accompanied by a bristling of the hair, especially of the tail.

After getting his leg broken and his body stomped by an angry bronc, he decided it was time for a visit.

Suddenly she was angry that Burr was there when she thought he had gone.

He confessed that he had been exceedingly angry upon hearing of the excommunication of his bishops, and that it was possible that the discomposure of his face, the flashing of his eyes, and certain choleric words that had slipped from his lips in that moment of passion, had put it into the heads of the assassins to avenge his indignation.

Ursula, angry at being treated quite so insultingly DE HAUT EN BAS, from the height of esoteric art to the depth of general exoteric amateurism, replied, hotly, flushing and lifting her face.