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angry
English
Etymology
From Middle English angry; see anger.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?æ?.??i/
- Rhymes: -æ??ri
Adjective
angry (comparative angrier, superlative angriest)
- Displaying or feeling anger.
- (said about a wound or a rash) Inflamed and painful.
- The broken glass left two angry cuts across my arm.
- (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)
- Angry; displaying angriness (usually of actions)
- Easily annoyed or angered; irous or spiteful.
- 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.
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frantic
English
Alternative forms
- frantick (obsolete)
- phrantic (chiefly obsolete)
- phrantick (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English frantik, frentik, from Old French frenetique, from Late Latin phreneticus, alteration of phreniticus, from ?????????? (phrenitikós, “mad, suffering from inflammation of the brain”), from ???????? (phrenîtis, “inflammation of the brain”), from ???? (phr?n, “the brain”). Doublet of frenetic.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?f?ænt?k/
- Rhymes: -ænt?k
Adjective
frantic (comparative more frantic, superlative most frantic)
- (archaic) Insane, mentally unstable.
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Matthew XV:
- Master have mercy on my sonne, for he is franticke: and ys sore vexed.
- c. 1599, William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act I, Scene 3,[1]
- If with myself I hold intelligence,
- Or have acquaintance with mine own desires;
- If that I do not dream, or be not frantic—
- As I do trust I am not—then, dear uncle,
- Never so much as in a thought unborn
- Did I offend your Highness.
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Matthew XV:
- In a state of panic, worry, frenzy or rush.
- Extremely energetic
Synonyms
- frenetic, frenzied
Related terms
- frenetic
- phrenitis
- frenzy
Translations
Noun
frantic (plural frantics)
- (archaic) A person who is insane or mentally unstable, madman.
- 1595, George Peele, The Old Wives’ Tale, The Malone Society Reprints, 1908, lines 3-5,[3]
- How nowe fellowe Franticke, what all a mort? Doth this sadnes become thy madnes?
- 1657, Aston Cockayne, The Obstinate Lady, London: Isaac Pridmore, Act V, Scene 3, p. 56,[4]
- […] who but sensless Franticks would have thoughts so poor? My Reason forsakes the government of this weak Frame, and I am fall’n into disorder […]
- 1721, Cotton Mather, diary entry for 16 July, 1721 in Diary of Cotton Mather, 1709-1724, Massachusetts Historical Society Collections, Seventh Series, Volume VIII, Boston: 1912, p. 632,[5]
- The Destroyer, being enraged at the Proposal of any Thing, that may rescue the Lives of our poor People from him, has taken a strange Possession of the People on this Occasion. They rave, they rail, they blaspheme; they talk not only like Ideots but also like Franticks, […]
- 1595, George Peele, The Old Wives’ Tale, The Malone Society Reprints, 1908, lines 3-5,[3]
References
Further reading
- frantic in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- frantic in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- frantic at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- infarct, infract
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