What does "angry" mean?
Angry: Inflamed and painful, as a sore.
Additional senses
- 2.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.
- 3.Wherefore should God be angry at thy voice Eccles. v.
- 4.4. 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.
- 5.5. Red. [R.] Sweet rose, whose hue, angry and brave. Herbert.
- 6.Sharp; keen; stimulated. [R.] I never ate with angrier appetite. Tennyson.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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