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angry


These words all refer to having strong feelings that make you want to shout at or hurt someone or something.

The most common word for this is angry.


It does no good to get angry at him - it won't change the situation at all.
Are you angry with me?
The news makes me so angry!

One opposite of angry is calm.


Keep calm and carry on.
You're very calm under pressure.

For more opposites of angry, see the article at calm.

mad is a more informal word than angry. In informal US English, you can also use the word sore.


USHe's still sore about the way things turned out.

If you are slightly angry about something that has happened, you can say you are annoyed or irritated.


He was annoyed with her for being late.
I was irritated that he didn't thank me.

You can use the word frustrated when you are annoyed about something that you keep not being able to do or that keeps happening.


He was getting increasingly frustrated by the lack of progress.

If you are extremely angry, you can say you are furious, irate, incensed, or livid.


My boss was furious with me.
Hundreds of irate passengers have complained to the airline.
Incensed fans stormed into the team's training ground.
She was absolutely livid that he didn't tell her sooner.

Apoplectic, incandescent, and beside yourself also mean extremely angry, especially in a way that is very obvious.


She had never seen him so apoplectic.
By the time I got back to my car, I was incandescent with rage.
Beside herself with rage, she threw the plate on the floor.

If someone is very angry, especially if they are not expressing it, you can say that they are fuming or seething.


Marcus was still fuming over the way he had been manoeuvred off the trip.
She drove home from work seething.

In UK English, if you are angry with a child, you would say that you are cross.


UKI'm cross with you for not telling me where you were going.

If people are angry about something because they think it is unfair, then you could informally say they are be up in arms over it.

An angry argument can be described as heated or, in formal contexts, acrimonious.


Things got rather heated between me and my neighbour.
He was involved in an acrimonious dispute with his neighbour.

Related articles


to get angry
to make someone angry
getting angry easily
anger
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