ANGRY
What does "ANGRY" mean?
Feeling or showing strong displeasure or hostility.
Meanings
- Feeling or showing anger. He fired off an angry email and regretted it by lunch.
- Inflamed and painful, of a wound or sore. The cut had turned an angry red around the edges.
- Suggesting turbulence or menace, of weather or the sea. Angry clouds piled up over the harbour before the storm. figurative
Word origin
From the noun 'anger' plus the adjective suffix '-y'; 'anger' itself traces to Old Norse 'angr', grief or distress.
Remember it
Hidden inside ANGRY is GR - the growl you make before you speak.
A little poem
Red welt on the skin-
the body keeps its own grudge
long after the slap.
haiku
What it teaches
An angry wound and an angry heart heal the same way: leave them alone long enough to close.
Quick facts
What does ANGRY mean?
Feeling or showing strong displeasure or hostility.
Is ANGRY a valid word?
Yes — ANGRY is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is ANGRY?
ANGRY has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does ANGRY come from?
From the noun 'anger' plus the adjective suffix '-y'; 'anger' itself traces to Old Norse 'angr', grief or distress.
What can ANGRY teach us?
An angry wound and an angry heart heal the same way: leave them alone long enough to close.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.