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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Angry \An"gry\, a. [Compar. {Angrier}; superl. {Angriest}.] [See
     {Anger}.]
     1. Troublesome; vexatious; rigorous. [Obs.]
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              God had provided a severe and angry education to


              chastise the forwardness of a young spirit. --Jer.
                                                    Taylor.
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     2. Inflamed and painful, as a sore.
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     3. Touched with anger; under the emotion of anger; feeling
        resentment; enraged; -- followed generally by with before
        a person, and at before a thing.
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              Be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves. --Gen.
                                                    xlv. 5.
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              Wherefore should God be angry at thy voice?
                                                    --Eccles. v.
                                                    6.
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     4. Showing anger; proceeding from anger; acting as if moved
        by anger; wearing the marks of anger; as, angry words or
        tones; an angry sky; angry waves. "An angry countenance."
        --Prov. xxv. 23.
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     5. Red. [R.]
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              Sweet rose, whose hue, angry and brave. --Herbert.
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     6. Sharp; keen; stimulated. [R.]
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              I never ate with angrier appetite.    --Tennyson.
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     Syn: Passionate; resentful; irritated; irascible; indignant;
          provoked; enraged; incensed; exasperated; irate; hot;
          raging; furious; wrathful; wroth; choleric; inflamed;
          infuriated.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  angry
       adj 1: feeling or showing anger; "angry at the weather"; "angry
              customers"; "an angry silence"; "sending angry letters
              to the papers" [ant: {unangry(p)}]
       2: (of the elements) as if showing violent anger; "angry clouds
          on the horizon"; "furious winds"; "the raging sea" [syn: {furious},
           {raging}, {tempestuous}, {wild}]
       3: severely inflamed and painful; "an angry sore"
       [also: {angriest}, {angrier}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  121 Moby Thesaurus words for "angry":
     acid, acrimonious, aggravated, algetic, anarchic, angered, annoyed,
     blustering, blusterous, blustery, bothered, browned off,
     browned-off, bugged, burning, burnt-up, caustic, chafed, chaotic,
     choleric, cloudy, corrosive, cross, cyclonic, dirty, discontented,
     disturbed, enraged, exasperated, feeling evil, festering, fiery,
     foul, frantic, frenzied, fuming, furious, galled, griped, heated,
     hellish, in a temper, incensed, indignant, inflamed, infuriate,
     infuriated, insensate, irascible, irate, ireful, irked, irritable,
     irritated, livid, mad, maddened, miffed, mindless, nettled,
     orgasmic, orgastic, out of humor, out of sorts, out of temper,
     pandemoniac, peeved, perturbed, piqued, pissed, pissed off,
     pissed-off, provoked, put out, raging, rainy, rankling, ravening,
     raving, raw, red, red-faced, resentful, riled, riled up, riley,
     rip-roaring, roiled, ruffled, sensitive, shirty, smarting, sore,
     splenetic, storming, stormy, tempestuous, tender, ticked off,
     tingling, tornadic, troubled, troublous, tumultuous, turbulent,
     typhonic, typhoonish, up in arms, uproarious, upset, uptight,
     vexed, waxy, wild, wild-eyed, worked up, wrathful, wrathy, wroth,
     wrought up, wrought-up
  
  

















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