Ang'gry, a.
a. [See ANGER.] 1. Inflamed, as a sore; manifesting inflammation. This serum, being accompanied by the thinner parts of the blood, grows red and angry. Wiseman. 2. Touched with anger; feeling resentment; provoked;— followed generally by with before a person, and at before a thing. Be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither. Gen. xlv. 5. Wherefore should God be angry at thy voice? Eccles. v. 6. 3. Showing anger; wearing the marks of anger. “An angry countenance.” Prov. xxv. 23.
- Hence, red. “Sweet rose, whose hue, angry and brave.” Herbert.
- Exciting; trying. [Obs.]
God had provided a severe and angry education to chastise the forwardness of a young spirit. Bp. Taylor. 6. Stimulated; roused; vigorous. I never ate with angrier appetite. Tennyson. Syn.—Passionate; resentful; irritated; indignant; provoked; hot; raging; furious; tumultuous; wrathful; choleric; inflamed; infuriated.