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angry
adj angrier, angriest
    1. Feeling or showing annoyance, resentment, wrath, disapproval, etc.
      Thesaurus: furious, incensed, enraged, mad, irate, infuriated, outraged, rancorous, wrathful, miffed, irascible, splenetic, out of sorts, seeing red (slang).
    2. Irritable, cross, ill-tempered, etc.
      Example: Harry always wears such an angry expression
    3. Said of a wound, rash, etc: red and sore.
    4. Dark and stormy.
      Example: an angry sky, sea, etc
Derivative: angrily
adverb
    In an angry way
      Thesaurus: infuriatingly, heatedly, irately, furiously, fiercely, sharply, grouchily, violently, hotly, bitterly, acidly, testily; Antonym: calmly, quietly, softly.
Idiom: be angry about something
    To feel or express annoyance over it.
Idiom: be angry at something or someone
    To be irritated by or indignant about it or them.
Idiom: be angry with someone or something
    To feel or express displeasure, disappointment, etc towards them or it.
Etymology: 14c: from anger.



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