anger

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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”).

Cognate with Danish anger (“regret, remorse”), Norwegian Bokmål anger (“regret, remorse”), Swedish ånger (“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 angō (“squeeze, choke, vex”), Albanian ang (“fear, anxiety, pain, nightmare”), Avestan 𐬄𐬰𐬀𐬵 (ązah, “strangulation; distress”), Ancient Greek ἄγχω (ánkhō, “I squeeze, strangle”), Sanskrit अंहु (aṃhu, “anxiety, distress”). Also compare with English anguish, anxious, quinsy, and perhaps to awe and ugly. The word seems to have originally meant “to choke, squeeze”.

The verb is from Middle English angren, angeren, from Old Norse angra. Compare with Icelandic angra, Norwegian Nynorsk angra, Norwegian Bokmål angre, Swedish ångra, Danish angre.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈæŋɡə(ɹ)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈæŋɡɚ/

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• Rhymes: -æŋɡə(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: an‧ger

Noun

anger (countable and uncountable, plural 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

   vent one's anger

   relieve one's anger

   manage one's anger

   soothe one's anger

   show one's anger

   do something in 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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Verb

anger (third-person singular simple present angers, present participle angering, simple past and past participle 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, translated by John Payne, 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.

Translations

References

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

Anagrams

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

Cornish

Noun

anger m

1. anger (strong feeling of displeasure)

Finnish

Etymology 1

Related to standard ankerias.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑŋːer/,
• Rhymes: -ɑŋːer
• Syllabification^(key): an‧ger

Noun

anger (dialectal)

1. eel

Etymology 2

Related to standard angervo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑŋːer/,
• Rhymes: -ɑŋːer
• Syllabification^(key): an‧ger

Noun

anger (dialectal)

1. plant of the genus Filipendula

References

• “anger”, in Suomen murteiden sanakirja [Dictionary of Finnish Dialects]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, incomplete, continuously updated), Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten keskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2022, →ISSN.

Middle English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old Norse angr, from Proto-Germanic *angazaz.

Alternative forms

• angre, angir, angyr, hanger, angur, aunger, angure

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈanɡər/

Noun

anger (plural angers)

1. Grief, painfulness, or discomfort; a feeling of pain or sadness.
2. A trouble, affliction, or vexation; something that inflicts pain or hardship.
3. Angriness, ire; the state of being angry, enraged, or wrathful.
4. Indignation, spitefulness; the feeling of being wronged or treated unfairly.
5. (rare) Irritableness; the state of being in a foul mood.

Derived terms

• angerly
• angren
• angry

Descendants

• English: anger
• Scots: anger
• Yola: garr (clipped)

References

• “anger, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-04-29.

Etymology 2

Verb

anger

1. Alternative form of angren

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse angr.

Noun

anger m (definite singular angeren) (uncountable)

1. regret, remorse, contrition, repentance, penitence

Related terms

• angre
• bondeanger

References

• “anger” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse angr.

Noun

anger m (definite singular angeren) (uncountable)

1. regret, remorse, contrition, repentance, penitence

Related terms

• angre
• bondeanger

References

• “anger” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Verb

anger

1. present indicative of ange

Anagrams

• genar, regna