anger

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Meaning

1. A strong feeling of displeasure, hostility, or antagonism towards someone or something, usually combined with an urge to harm, often stemming from perceived provocation, hurt, or threat.
2. (obsolete) Pain or stinging.

rage

enrage

make angry

get angry

be angry

ira

be furious

hot temper

cause strife

provoke to anger

be wrathful

angry at

be vexed

make someone angry

put out of tune

taking offence

be irate

incite anger

stir up anger

pigue

such as fear

warmth of tem-per

buzz around

make cross

make indignant

make wild

make worth

make wroth

be envaged

woodness

put in a bad mood

bad mood

bad temper

disgruntle

emotion

get mad

get somebody’s goat

lose one’s temper

Frequency

Hyphenated as

an‧ger

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈæŋɡə(ɹ)/

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”), Albanian ang (“fear, anxiety, pain, nightmare”), Avestan 𐬄𐬰𐬀𐬵 (ązah, “strangulation; distress”), Ancient Greek ἄγχω (ánkhō, “I squeeze, strangle”), Sanskrit अंहु (aṃhu, “anxiety, distress”). 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. Compare with Icelandic angra, Norwegian Nynorsk angra, Norwegian Bokmål angre, Swedish ångra, Danish angre.