angryとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈæŋ.ɡɹi/
• 韻: -æŋɡri

形容詞

angry (comparative angrier, superlative angriest)

1. Displaying or feeling anger.

   His face became angry.

   An angry mob started looting the warehouse.

   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter 5, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., OCLC 222716698:

     Then we relapsed into a discomfited silence, and wished we were anywhere else. But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud, and with such a hearty enjoyment that instead of getting angry and more mortified we began to laugh ourselves, and instantly felt better.

2. (said about a wound または a rash) Inflamed and painful.

   The broken glass left two angry cuts across my arm.

3. (figuratively, said about the elements, like the sky または the sea) Dark and stormy, menacing.

   Angry clouds raced across the sky.

   • 1756, Christopher Smart, “Ode II”, in The Book of the Epodes, translation of original by Horace:

     […] nor dreads he the angry sea […]

使用する際の注意点

• The comparative more angry and the superlative most angry are also occasionally found.

• The sense “feeling anger” is construed with with or at when the object is a person: I’m angry with/at my boss. It is construed with at or about when the object is a situation: I’m angry at/about what he said. When both a person and a situation are given, the latter is construed with for instead: I’m angry with/at my boss for what he said.

同意語

• (displaying anger): mad, enraged, wrathful, furious, apoplectic; irritated, annoyed, vexed, pissed off, cheesed off, worked up, psyched up
• See also Thesaurus:angry

派生語