angry

adj

1. Displaying or feeling anger.

   “His face became angry.”

   “An angry mob started looting the warehouse.”

   “Then we relapsed into a discomfited silence, and wished we were anywhere else. But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud, and with such a hearty enjoyment that instead of getting angry and more mortified we began to laugh ourselves, and instantly felt better.”

   “Cone, who once called himself “the angriest theologian in America,” is still angry.”

   “But, statistically-speaking, there is significantly-greater-than-even odds of the American forces coming out victorious - as I said, largely due to, one, the sheer technology advantage of the radar and fire-control systems, and also two, the almighty swarm of Fletchers. Never, ever underestimate the firepower of an almighty swarm of angry Fletchers.”

2. Inflamed and painful.

   “The broken glass left two angry cuts across my arm.”

3. (figuratively)Dark and stormy, menacing.

   “Angry clouds raced across the sky.”

   “[…]nor dreads he the angry sea[…]”

   “When she and her sister were away at Williamsburg, Nancy and I were more like founderers on a raft adrift in an angry sea.”

noun

1. (informal, rare)An angry person.

   “Maybe I just have a thick skin from years of newsgroup use, but hey, it is a forum where all kinds of people come, and its not like you have to take the anonymous kooks or the angries too seriously (they don't live next door to me or hang out in my office).”

   “He knows the young buffalos who bitch beyond reasonable bitching but still do the job, and he knows the angries, the men who never seem to feel good about themselves because of the seemingly endless struggle against an unrealistic bureaucracy that demands so much of them and offers so little in the way of reward or compensation. After all, they are "only" cops.”

   “Nah..that hasn't been said anywhere by anyone except a few malcontents. On the contrary, the angries wish us to accept what they say at face value and come unglued when we don't.....”

   “The big question is who gets what part of the party? Howard's angry, he'll get the angries.”

verb

1. (obsolete, transitive)To anger.

   “Onely they that repent, and are verie ſorie that they haue angried God with their ſinnes, and yet truſt that they are forgiuẽ them for Chriſtes ſake, and that the reſt of their weakeneſſe and vnperfectnes is couered with his deth & paſſion, who alſo deſire to goe forwarde and growe more and more in holy life & conuerſation.”

   “For when the Arabians being offended with Heraclius for denying them their pay, and for his religion had ſeuered themſelues from him, Mahomet ioyned himſelfe to the angried ſouldiers, and ſtirred vp their minds againſt their Emperour, and encouraged them in their defection.”

   “For verily the common ſort (O Socratus my friende,) is ingratefull, full of mockes and ſcornes, vaine, ſoone angried, cruel, enuious, rude, heaped full of troubles and trifles: and whoſeuer doth familiarly acquaint himſelfe with them, & conuerſe amongſt them, doth at the length, become farre more miſerable then they be themſelues.”

   “I doe well to be angry. It was a milde ſaying of Auguſtus the Emperour to one of his ſouldiers deſirous to be diſmiſſed his armie, but wanting a iuſt and honeſt excuſe to his friends at his returne home, ſay, ſaith the Emperour, that I have angried thee.”