anger

Meaning

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) A strong and unpleasant feeling of displeasure, hostility, or antagonism towards someone or something, usually combined with an urge to yell, say curse words, and/or physically harm or cause damage or destruction to things or attack or assault living beings, often stemming from perceived provocation, hurt, threat, insults, or unfair or unjust treatment, or a situation not going the way one had desired or planned.
2. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) Pain or stinging.

Verb

1. (transitive) To cause such a feeling of antagonism in.
2. (intransitive) To become angry.

Synonyms

rage

😡

wrath

fury

indignation

enrage

irritate

ire

vex

make angry

angry

😠

resentment

passion

irritation

displeasure

annoy

incense

infuriate

hate

😡

malice

outrage

exasperate

vexation

madden

spite

provoke

hatred

aggravate

pique

exasperation

upset

spleen

temper

annoyance

jealousy

bother

offend

angriness

sorrow

choler

rile

nettle

embitter

impatience

rankle

bitterness

be angry

gall

ira

envy

enmity

Translations

colère

💢

Zorn

💢

Ärger

rabbia

💢

ira

💢

collera

ira

💢

woede

💢

cólera

💢

raiva

💢

rabia

😡

Wut

😡

ira

💢

enojo

💢

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈæŋɡə(ɹ)/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: anger

Cognate with Old Norse: ang

Cognate with Danish: anger

Cognate with Norwegian Bokmål: anger

Cognate with Swedish: ånger

Cognate with Icelandic: angur

Cognate with Old English: ange

Cognate with German: Angst

Cognate with Latin: angō

Cognate with Albanian: ang

Cognate with Avestan: 𐬄𐬰𐬀𐬵

Cognate with Ancient Greek: ἄγχω

Cognate with Sanskrit: अंहु

Cognate with English: anguish

Cognate with Icelandic: angra

Cognate with Norwegian Nynorsk: angra

Cognate with Norwegian Bokmål: angre

Cognate with Swedish: ångra

Cognate with Danish: angre

In summary

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, “I 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. Compare with Icelandic angra, Norwegian Nynorsk angra, Norwegian Bokmål angre, Swedish ångra, Danish angre.

Sentences

Never let the sun go down on your anger .