Anger
Pronunciation
- US IPA: /ˈæŋ.ɡɚ/, /ˈeɪŋ.ɡɚ/
- Rhymes: -æŋɡə(ɹ)
Origin
From Middle English anger ("grief, pain, trouble, affliction, vexation, sorrow, wrath"), from Old Norse angr, Ç«ngr ("affliction, sorrow"), from ang, Ç«ng ("troubled"), from Proto-Germanic *anguz, *angwuz ("narrow, strait"), from Proto-Indo-European *amǵʰ- ("narrow, tied together"). Cognate with Danish anger ("regret, remorse"), Swedish Ã¥nger ("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 angÅ ("squeeze, choke, vex"), Albanian ang ("fear, anxiety, pain, nightmare"), Avestan angra ("destructive"), Ancient Greek ἄγχω (ankhÅ, "I squeeze, strangle"), Sanskrit अंहॠ(aṃhu, "anxiety, distress"). Also compare anguish, anxious, quinsy, and perhaps to awe and ugly. The word seems to have originally meant “to choke, squeezeâ€.
Webster 1913
Full definition of anger
Noun
anger
(countable and uncountable; plural angers)- A strong feeling of displeasure, hostility or antagonism towards someone or something, usually combined with an urge to harm.
- 2013-06-28, Joris Luyendijk, Our banks are out of control, Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic …. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. When a series of bank failures made this impossible, there was widespread anger, leading to the public humiliation of symbolic figures.
- You need to control your anger.
- (obsolete) Pain or stinging.
- It heals the Wounds that Sin hath made; and takes away the Anger of the Sore; ...
- TempleI made the experiment, setting the moxa where ... the greatest anger and soreness still continued.
Synonyms
- (strong feeling of antagonism)