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anger

Syllables: an·gerUK/ˈæŋɡə/

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British/ˈaŋɡə/

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)

  1. 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
  2. (obsolete) 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)

  1. (transitive) 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...
  2. (intransitive) To become angry.
    • You anger too easily.
    Synonyms:
    get angry, bristle, flare

Proper noun capitalized: Anger

Anger

  1. 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:

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Synonyms of anger

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Antonyms

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Forms of anger

Noun
pluralangers
Verb
third-person singular presentangers
present participleangering
past participleangered
pastangered

Past tense of anger: angered

Plural of anger: angers

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....

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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

  1. Angelyne
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  3. Angelynne
  4. Angengo
  5. angeogenic
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  7. anger balloon
  8. anger balloons
  9. anger bubble
  10. anger bubbles
  11. Anger camera

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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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