Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A strong feeling of displeasure or hostility.
- intransitive verb To make angry; enrage or provoke.
- intransitive verb To become angry.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To grieve; trouble; distress; afflict.
- To make painful; cause to smart; inflame; irritate: as, to
anger an ulcer. Bacon. - To excite to anger or wrath; rouse resentment in.
- Synonyms To irritate, chafe, provoke, vex, enrage, exasperate, infuriate.
- To become angry.
- noun Grief; trouble; distress; anguish.
- noun A revengeful passion or emotion directed against one who inflicts a real or supposed wrong; “uneasiness or discomposure of mind upon the receipt of any injury, with a present purpose of revenge,” Locke; wrath; ire.
- noun An individual fit of anger; an expression of anger, as a threat: in this sense it may be used in the plural.
- noun Pain or smart, as of a sore or swelling. This sense is still retained by the adjective. See
angry , 8. - noun Synonyms Anger, Vexation, Indignation, Resentment, Wrath, Ire, Choler, Rage, Fury, passion, displeasure, dudgeon, irritation, gall, bile, spleen. Vexation is the least forcible of these words, expressing the annoyance and impatient chafing of one whose mood has been crossed, whose expectations have not been realized, etc. Indignation may be the most high-minded and unselfish; it is intense feeling in view of grossly unworthy conduct, whether toward one's self or toward others. The other words denote almost exclusively feeling excited by the sense of personal injury. Anger is a sudden violent feeling of displeasure over injury, disobedience, etc., accompanied by a retaliatory impulse; it easily becomes excessive, and its manifestation is generally accompanied by a loss of self-control. Resentment is the broadest in its meaning, denoting the instinctive and proper recoil of feeling when one is injured, and often a deep and bitter brooding over past wrongs, with a consequent hatred and settled desire for vengeance; it is, in the latter sense, the coolest and most permanent of these feelings. Wrath and ire express sudden feeling of great power, and are often associated with the notion of the superiority of the person: as, the wrath of Jove, the ire of Achilles. They are often the result of wounded pride. Ire is poetic. Wrath has also an exalted sense, expressive of a lofty indignation visiting justice upon wrong-doing. Rage is an outburst of anger, with little or no self-control; fury is even more violent than rage, rising almost to madness. The chief characteristic of choler is quickness to rise; it is irascibility, easily breaking into a high degree of resentful feeling.
- noun An occasional spelling of
angor .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To make painful; to cause to smart; to inflame.
- transitive verb To excite to anger; to enrage; to provoke.
- noun obsolete Trouble; vexation; also, physical pain or smart of a sore, etc.
- noun A strong passion or emotion of displeasure or antagonism, excited by a real or supposed injury or insult to one's self or others, or by the intent to do such injury.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A strong
feeling ofdispleasure ,hostility orantagonism towards someone or something, usually combined with anurge toharm . - noun obsolete
Pain orstinging . - verb transitive To
cause such a feeling of antagonism. - verb intransitive To become
angry .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a strong emotion; a feeling that is oriented toward some real or supposed grievance
- verb become angry
- noun the state of being angry
- noun belligerence aroused by a real or supposed wrong (personified as one of the deadly sins)
- verb make angry
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Of course, a lot of things get said in anger just to lash out and hurt the person at whom the anger is directed.
Beware Solitary Eaters in the Food Court Ulysses 2008
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Of course, a lot of things get said in anger just to lash out and hurt the person at whom the anger is directed.
Archive 2008-09-01 Ulysses 2008
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Hopefully it will spark some more balanced debate, as a professor denied tenure and apparently writing in anger is maybe not the best judge.
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In addition, we purposely made the title anger and enrage the disbelievers.
The Jawa Report 2009
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We are entitled to our anger in response to this oppression: our anger is a message to ourselves that we need to get active and change something in order to survive.
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But a chance encounter with Buddhism shows him the anger is his alone, and never serves any good purpose anyway.
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As much as conservatives would like to believe that all this anger is about national politics and conservative principles.
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At some level this anger is an attempt at intimidation for Democrats to back off their agenda, but at heart it is the product of a poor education.
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So some of the anger is at him and some at the world, but how do we handle it together?
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We are entitled to our anger in response to this oppression: our anger is a message to ourselves that we need to get active and change something in order to survive.
Yet another trans 101, in which Helen tells cis people What’s What 2009
bilby commented on the word anger
"He felt a sudden anger at SheAlmighty. People around him could have been happy. He could have been happy himself. At Leisemeer's restaurant they could all have felt like absolute kings. Or better yet, like gods, for after eating and drinking and receiving royal service, the tableware disappeared, the footmen disappeared, the whole feudal illusion disappeared, and one was out in the carefree Copenhagen night.
Instead one found natural catastrophes. Children mistreated. Kidnappings. Loneliness. Separation of people who love each other.
His anger increased. The problem with anger against God is that it's impossible to go higher in the system to complain."
- 'The Quiet Girl', Peter Høeg.
March 18, 2008