different between angry vs ropeable

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

Alternative forms

• ropable

Etymology

From rope +? -able.

Pronunciation

Adjective

ropeable (comparative more ropeable, superlative most ropeable)

1. Able to be roped and so restrained.
2. (Australia, New Zealand) Angry to the point of needing to be restrained from violent action.
   • 1903, Tom Collins (Joseph Furphy), Such is Life: Being Certain Extracts From The Diary of Tom Collins, 2004, page 19,

     ?On?t ole Martin be ropeable when he sees that fence!

   • 2003, Dal Stivens, Jimmy Brockett: Portrait of a Notable Australian, page 115,

     As soon as I hit the cold air I got even more ropeable. The garage door caught when I was dragging it back and I gave it a God-almighty heave. There was a sharp crack and it came off the hinges.

     I wanted to smash something, tear something apart with my bare hands, aet fire to the bloody house.

   • 2009, Sean Dooley, Cooking with Baz, page 115,

     The phone rang a couple of hours later and it was Di. I have never heard her more ropable in my life; it is the only tongue-lashing I ever remember getting from her and it was excoriating.

   • 2009, Roberta Williams, Roberta Williams: My Life, unnumbered page,

     I was already angry that he had gone out and left me to clean all his shit up but to then find out he had gone off to see his little tart got me even more ropeable.

   • 2011, Christopher Green, New Toddler Taming, page 2,

     As the weeks wore on and the toddler?s tantrums continued, the mother reached her wits? end and the father became ropeable.

Anagrams

• operable