angerとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈæŋɡə(ɹ)/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈæŋɡɚ/
• 韻: -æŋɡə(ɹ)
• ハイフネーション: an‧ger

名詞

anger (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 angers)

1. A strong feeling of displeasure, hostility or antagonism towards someone or something, usually combined with an urge to harm, often stemming from perceived provocation, hurt, or threat.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:anger

   You need to control your anger.

   • 2013 June 28, Joris Luyendijk, “Our banks are out of control”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 3, page 21:

     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.

2. (obsolete) Pain or stinging.
   • 1660, Simon Patrick, Mensa mystica, published 1717, page 322:

     It heals the Wounds that Sin hath made; and takes away the Anger of the Sore; […]

   • 1677 June 28​, William Temple, “An Essay upon the Cure of Gout by Moxa. […]”, in Miscellanea. The First Part. [...], 3rd edition, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], and Awnsham and John Churchill, […], published 1691, →OCLC, page 209:

     I immediately made the Experiment, ſetting the Moxa where the firſt Violence of my Pain began, which was the Joint of the great Toe, and where the greateſt Anger and Soreneſs ſtill continued, [...]

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動詞

anger (三人称単数 現在形 angers, 現在分詞 angering, 過去形および過去分詞形 angered)

1. (transitive) To cause such a feeling of antagonism in.

   Synonyms: enrage, infuriate, annoy, vex, grill, displease, aggravate, irritate

   He who angers you conquers you.

   • 1911, Heinrich Heine, John Payne, transl., The Poetical Works of Heinrich Heine: Now First Completely Rendered into English Verse, in Accordance with the Original Forms, volume one, Villon Society, page 176:

     “Poetling, fret thyself not! / I will not one tittle imperil / Thy sorry cockboat; / Nor yet thy poor dear life will I harass / With over-hazardous tossings. / For thou, little poet, ne’er angeredst me; / Thou hast me no least little pinnacle harmed / Of Priamus’ sacrosanct stronghold; / Nor even the least little lash hast thou singed / Of the eye of my son Polyphemus; / And thee with her counsels protected hath ne’er / The Goddess of Wisdom, Pallas Athené.”

2. (intransitive) To become angry.

   Synonym: get angry (see angry for more)

   You anger too easily.

参照

• “anger”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• Agner, Negar, Regan, areng, grane, range, rangé, regna, renga