anger
Syllables: an·gerUK/ˈæŋɡə/
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anger noun: a strong and unpleasant feeling of displeasure, hostility, or antagonism, usually combined with an urge to yell, curse, damage or destroy things, or harm living beings, often stemming from perceived provocation, hurt, threat, insults, unfair or unjust treatment, or an undesired situation.
Noun
anger (countable and uncountable, plural angers)
- A strong and unpleasant feeling of displeasure, hostility, or antagonism, usually combined with an urge to yell, curse, damage or destroy things, or harm living beings, often stemming from perceived provocation, hurt, threat, insults, unfair or unjust treatment, or an undesired situation.
- vent one's anger
- relieve one's anger
- Pain or stinging.
- It heals the Wounds that Sin hath made; and takes away the Anger of the Sore; […]1660, Simon Patrick, Mensa mystica, published 1717, page 322
- I immediately made the Experiment, ſetting the Moxa where the firſt Violence of my Pain began, which was the Joint of the great Toe, and where the greateſt Anger and Soreneſs ſtill continued, [...]1679, William Temple, “An Essay upon the Cure of Gout by Moxa. […]”, in Miscellanea. […], London: […] A. M. and R. R. for Edw[ard] Gellibrand, […], →OCLC, page 209
Verb
anger (third-person singular simple present angers, present participle angering, simple past and past participle angered)
- To cause such a feeling of antagonism in.
- He who angers you conquers you.
- “Poetling, fret thyself not! / I will not one tittle imperil / Thy sorry cockboat; / Nor yet thy poor dear life will I harass / With over-hazardous tossings. / For thou, little poet, ne’er angeredst me; / Thou hast me no least little pinnacle harmed / Of Priamus’ sacrosanct stronghold; / Nor even...1911, Heinrich Heine, translated by John Payne, The Poetical Works of Heinrich Heine: Now First Completely Rendered into English Verse, in Accordance with the Original Forms, volume one, Villon...
- To become angry.
- You anger too easily.
Proper noun capitalized: Anger
Anger
- A surname from French or German.
anger meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
anger in Hindi
- strong feeling of displeasure, hostility or antagonism towards someone or something
- क्रोध krodh, ग़ुस्सा ġussā
anger in Tamil
- strong feeling of displeasure, hostility or antagonism towards someone or something
- கோபம் kōpam
- to become angry
- கோபி kōpi
anger in Marathi
- strong feeling of displeasure, hostility or antagonism towards someone or something
- राग rāg, क्रोध krodh
- to become angry
- रागवणे rāgavṇe
anger in Urdu
- strong feeling of displeasure, hostility or antagonism towards someone or something
- غصہ ġussā, خشم xaśm, طیش taiś
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- anger in Bengali
- রাগ rag, রাগ করা rag kora, রেগে যাওয়া rege jaōẇa
- anger in Telugu
- కోపం kōpaṁ
- anger in Malayalam
- ദേഷ്യം dēṣyaṁ, കോപം kōpaṁ, ക്രോധം krōdhaṁ, ദേഷ്യം പിടിപ്പിക്കുക dēṣyaṁ piṭippikkuka
- anger in Kannada
- ಕೋಪ kōpa
- anger in Punjabi
- ਕ੍ਰੋਧ krodh, ਹਰਖ harakh, ਗ਼ੁੱਸਾ ġussā, ਵਿੱਸ vissa
- anger in Gujarati
- ગુસ્સો gusso
- anger in Odia
- ରଞ୍ଜ୍ rañj, ଚୋଖ cokha, ଉଷ୍ଣ uṣṇa, ମାନ māna
- anger in Sanskrit
- कोप kopa, क्रोध krodha, इरस् iras
- anger in Assamese
- খং khoṅ
- anger in Nepali
- रिस ris
- anger in Tagalog
- galit
- anger in Arabic
- غَضَب ḡaḍab, أَغْضَبَ ʔaḡḍaba, غَضِبَ ḡaḍiba
- anger in Malay
- kemarahan
- anger in Indonesian
- amarah
- anger in Persian
- خشم xašm, غضب ġazab
- anger in Thai
- วิโรธ wí-rôot
- anger in Vietnamese
- mối giận, sự tức giận, làm ai tức giận, nổi giận
Examples of anger in a sentence
- do something in anger
- You need to control your anger.
- When a series of bank failures made this impossible, there was widespread anger, leading to the public humiliation of symbolic figures.2013 June 28, Joris Luyendijk, “Our banks are out of control”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 3, page 21:
Synonyms of anger
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Forms of anger
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | angers |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | angers |
| present participle | angering |
| past participle | angered |
| past | angered |
Origin of anger
From Middle English anger (“grief, pain, trouble, affliction, vexation, sorrow, wrath”), from Old Norse angr, ǫngr (“affliction, sorrow”) (compare Old Norse ang, ǫng (“troubled”)), from Proto-Germanic *angazaz (“grief, sorrow”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂enǵʰ- (“narrow, tied together”). Cognate with Danish anger (“regret, remorse”), Norwegian Bokmål anger (“regret, remorse”), Swedish ånger (“regret”), Icelandic angur (“trouble”), Old English ange, enge (“narrow, close, straitened, constrained, confined, vexed, troubled, sorrowful, anxious, oppressive, severe, painful, cruel”), German Angst (“anxiety, anguish, fear”), Latin angō (“squeeze, choke, vex”), angor (“strangulation; anguish, torment”) (whence the English doublet angor), Albanian ang (“fear, anxiety, pain, nightmare”), Avestan 𐬄𐬰𐬀𐬵 (ązah, “strangulation; distress”), Ancient Greek ἄγχω (ánkhō, “to squeeze, strangle”), Sanskrit अंहस् (aṃhas), अंहु (aṃhu, “anxiety, distress, affliction”, literally “narrowness”). Also compare with English anguish, anxious, quinsy, and perhaps to awe and ugly. The word seems to have originally meant “to choke, squeeze”. The verb is from Middle English angren, angeren, from Old Norse angra....
Words formed from anger
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Questions about anger
- What does anger mean?
- Anger means a strong and unpleasant feeling of displeasure, hostility, or antagonism, usually combined with an urge to yell, curse, damage or destroy things, or harm living beings, often stemming from perceived provocation, hurt, threat, insults, unfair or unjust treatment, or an undesired situation.
- What is anger in Hindi?
- Anger in Hindi is क्रोध (krodh), ग़ुस्सा (ġussā). See Anger meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use anger in a sentence?
- do something in anger
- What part of speech is anger?
- Anger can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce anger?
- Anger is pronounced /ˈæŋɡə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of anger?
- The plural of anger is angers.
Words near anger in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: anger (page history and authors); Anger (page history and authors); اگ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); ગુસ્સો (Gujarati) (page history and authors); ଉତ୍ସବ (Odia) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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