anger
A strong and unpleasant feeling of displeasure, hostility, or antagonism, usually combined with an urge to yell, curse, damage or destroy things, or harm living beings, often stemming from perceived provocation, hurt, threat, insults, unfair or unjust treatment, or an undesired situation.
Noun 1 meaning
A strong and unpleasant feeling of displeasure, hostility, or antagonism, usually combined with an urge to yell, curse, damage or destroy things, or harm living beings, often stemming from perceived provocation, hurt, threat, insults, unfair or unjust treatment, or an undesired situation.
“vent one's anger”
Verb 2 meanings
To cause such a feeling of antagonism in.
“He who angers you conquers you.”
To become angry.
“You anger too easily.”
Etymology
From Middle English anger (“grief, pain, trouble, affliction, vexation, sorrow, wrath”), from Old Norse angr, ǫngr (“affliction, sorrow”) (compare Old Norse ang, ǫng (“troubled”)), from Proto-Germanic *angazaz (“grief, sorrow”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂enǵʰ- (“narrow, tied together”).
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ANGER at a glance
ANGER has 5 letters and scores 6 points in Scrabble (A 1 + N 1 + G 2 + E 1 + R 1) and 8 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #3,397 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with anger
All rhymesOne letter away
- ANGEL6
- AUGER6
- ANKER9
- AGGER7
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