feeling or showing anger or strong resentment (usually followed by at, with, or about): to be angry at the dean; to be angry about the snub.
expressing, caused by, or characterized by anger; wrathful: angry words.
Chiefly New England and Midland U.S.inflamed, as a sore; exhibiting inflammation.
(of an object or phenomenon) exhibiting a characteristic or creating a mood associated with anger or danger, as by color, sound, force, etc.: an angry sea; the boom of angry guns.
Origin of angry
First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English; anger + -y1
Fishers like them because the worms wriggle and thrash like angry snakes, which lures fish, says Henshue.
Invasive jumping worms damage U.S. soil and threaten forests|Megan Sever|September 29, 2020|Science News
A recent Facebook post garnered more than 1,500 angry comments supporting him.
Veteran, War Hero, Defendant, Troll|by Jeremy Schwartz and Perla Trevizo|September 29, 2020|ProPublica
I don’t need angry lab directors emailing me about broken centrifuges.
Can You Save Some Cold Pizza?|Zach Wissner-Gross|September 25, 2020|FiveThirtyEight
When presented with images on a screen, we perceive angry faces as lasting longer than neutral ones, spiders as lasting longer than butterflies, and the color red as lasting longer than blue.
Reasons Revealed for the Brain’s Elastic Sense of Time|Jordana Cepelewicz|September 24, 2020|Quanta Magazine
While there’s no suggestion in court papers that Wenig knew of the plot, prosecutors say his angry emails and texts triggered the scheme, and they play a central role in the narrative spelled out by the government.
Four ex-eBay employees to admit guilt in cyberstalking plot|Verne Kopytoff|September 23, 2020|Fortune
To borrow an old right-wing talking point, these people are angry no matter what we do.
Harry Shearer on The Dangerous Business of Satire|Lloyd Grove|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Desert Golfing is the distillation of Angry Birds into its purest essence.
Lost For Thousands of Strokes: 'Desert Golfing' Is 'Angry Birds' as Modern Art|Alec Kubas-Meyer|January 2, 2015|DAILY BEAST
But since that explosion of popularity, Angry Birds has become about everything else.
Lost For Thousands of Strokes: 'Desert Golfing' Is 'Angry Birds' as Modern Art|Alec Kubas-Meyer|January 2, 2015|DAILY BEAST
And in this way, it follows not what Angry Birds became, but how it began.
Lost For Thousands of Strokes: 'Desert Golfing' Is 'Angry Birds' as Modern Art|Alec Kubas-Meyer|January 2, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Angry Birds at its simplest was the same way, though you wanted to watch things collapse and explode.
Lost For Thousands of Strokes: 'Desert Golfing' Is 'Angry Birds' as Modern Art|Alec Kubas-Meyer|January 2, 2015|DAILY BEAST
For indeed I am not of consequence enough for my master to concern himself, and be angry about such a creature as me.
Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded|Samuel Richardson
Thou must not be angry with me, my mother; only fools get angry at the truth.
A Nobleman's Nest|Ivan Turgenieff
He was so angry at the animal, that he ran after it, seized it, and dashed its life out against a rock.
Filipino Popular Tales|Dean S. Fansler
His cynical aplomb had already disappeared, leaving a tremulous, an angry, but a human being behind.
Peccavi|E. W. Hornung
And as she carried the attempt too far, I got angry, and heating with a charm the prongs of my trident, I marked her on the loins.
The Kath Sarit Sgara|Somadeva Bhatta
British Dictionary definitions for angry
angry
/ (ˈæŋɡrɪ) /
adjective-grieror-griest
feeling or expressing annoyance, animosity, or resentment; enraged
suggestive of angerangry clouds
severely inflamedan angry sore
Derived forms of angry
angrily, adverb
usage for angry
It was formerly considered incorrect to talk about being angry at a person, but this use is now acceptable