different between angry vs bleak

English

Etymology

From Middle English angry; see anger.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æ?.??i/
• Rhymes: -æ??ri

Adjective

angry (comparative angrier, superlative angriest)

1. Displaying or feeling anger.
2. (said about a wound or a rash) Inflamed and painful.

   The broken glass left two angry cuts across my arm.

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

   Angry clouds raced across the sky.

Usage notes

• 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.

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• Anger on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• rangy

Middle English

Alternative forms

• angri, angrye

Etymology

From anger +? -y, from Old Norse angr (“affliction, sorrow”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?an?ri?/

Adjective

angry (superlative angriest)

1. Angry; displaying angriness (usually of actions)
2. Easily annoyed or angered; irous or spiteful.
3. Severe, vexatious, ferocious, painful.

Derived terms

• angrily
• angrynes

Descendants

• English: angry
• Scots: angry

References

• “angr?, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-04-02.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bli?k/
• Rhymes: -i?k

Etymology 1

From Middle English bleke (also bleche > English bleach (“pale, bleak”)), and bleike (due to Old Norse), and earlier Middle English blak, blac (“pale, wan”), from Old English bl?c, bl??, bl?c (“bleak, pale, pallid, wan, livid; bright, shining, glittering, flashing”) and Old Norse bleikr (“pale, whitish”), from Proto-Germanic *blaikaz (“pale, shining”). Cognate with Dutch bleek (“pale, wan, pallid”), Low German blek (“pale”), German bleich (“pale, wan, sallow”), Danish bleg (“pale”), Swedish blek (“pale, pallid”), Norwegian Bokmål bleik, blek (“pale”), Norwegian Nynorsk bleik (“pale”), Faroese bleikur (“pale”), Icelandic bleikur (“pale, pink”).

Adjective

bleak (comparative bleaker, superlative bleakest)

1. Without color; pale; pallid.
   • 1563, John Foxe, Actes and Monuments

     When she came out she looked as pale and as bleak as one that were laid out dead.

2. Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds.
   • 1793, William Wordsworth, Descriptive Sketches

     Wastes too bleak to rear / The common growth of earth, the foodful ear.
3. Unhappy; cheerless; miserable; emotionally desolate.

Synonyms

• (sickly pale): see also Thesaurus:pallid

Derived terms

• bleaken

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English bleke (“small river fish, bleak, blay”), perhaps an alteration (due to English bl?c (“bright”) or Old Norse bleikja) of Old English bl??e (“bleak, blay, gudgeon”); or perhaps from a diminutive of Middle English *bleye (“blay”), equivalent to blay +? -ock or blay +? -kin. See blay.

Noun

bleak (plural bleaks or bleak)

1. A small European river fish (Alburnus alburnus), of the family Cyprinidae.

Synonyms

• ablet
• alburn
• blay

Derived terms

• sunbleak

Translations

References

Anagrams

• Balke, Blake, Kaleb, blake