different between impassioned vs angry

English

Alternative forms

• empassioned [16th-18th c.]

Etymology

From impassion +? -ed.

Adjective

impassioned (comparative more impassioned, superlative most impassioned)

1. Filled with intense emotion or passion; fervent.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.9:

     She was empassioned at that piteous act, / With zealous envy of the Greekes cruell fact / Against that nation […]

   • 1839, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby, VI:

     The tears fell fast from the maiden's eyes as she closed her impassioned appeal, and hid her face in the bosom of her sister.

Translations

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.