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feeling or showing or strong resentment (usually followed by at, with, or about):
to be angry at the dean; to be angry about the snub.
expressing, caused by, or characterized by ; wrathful:
angry words.
chiefly new england and midland u.s. inflamed, as a sore; exhibiting inflammation.
(of an object or phenomenon) exhibiting a characteristic or creating a mood -ssociated with or danger, as by color, sound, force, etc.:
an angry sea; the boom of angry guns.
contemporary examples

i refused the blow dry, knowing that would only make my face an angrier red.
inspired by ashley judd, my own ‘puffy face’ saga kelly bergin april 12, 2012

she says her friends and peers are angrier and more jumpy than the people she has met in egypt.
the gaza prison sarah a. topol november 20, 2012

we see representative gary ackerman (my personal hero) getting angrier and angrier at the sec princ-p-ls.
madoff victim reviews new madoff doc alexandra penney august 25, 2011

bigger and angrier demonstrations are likely but they can hopefully remain peaceful.
egypt’s president mubarak plays with fire bruce riedel february 9, 2011

but the longer i stared at the picture, the angrier i got with nixon.
george mcgovern & me mark katz october 20, 2012

historical examples

the koreish grew ever angrier; laid plots, and swore oaths among them, to put mohammed to death with their own hands.
sacred books of the east various

but daedalus, instead of being proud of his nephew, was angrier than before.
cl-ssic myths mary catherine judd

she was angry now, and the longer she thought the angrier she got.
the gold girl james b. hendryx

a voice inside francis took part with the old man, and made him yet angrier.
heather and snow george macdonald

this, of course, only served to make her angrier than before.
billie bradley at three towers hall janet d. wheeler

adjective -grier, -griest
feeling or expressing annoyance, animosity, or resentment; enraged
suggestive of anger: angry clouds
severely inflamed: an angry sore
adj.

late 14c., from anger (n.) + -y (2). originally “full of trouble, vexatious;” sense of “enraged, irate” also is from late 14c. the old norse adjective was ongrfullr “sorrowful,” and middle english had angerful “anxious, eager” (mid-13c.). the phrase angry young man dates to 1941 but was popularized in reference to the play “look back in anger” (produced 1956) though it does not occur in that work.

“there are three words in the english language that end in -gry. two of them are angry and hungry. what is the third?” there is no third (except some extremely obscure ones). richard lederer calls this “one of the most outrageous and time-wasting linguistic hoaxes in our nation’s history” and traces it to a new york tv quiz show from early 1975.