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.

 

© Webster 1913.

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