anger

Example sentences

• "He shouted in anger when he saw the broken window."

  Level A2

• "She tried to control her anger."

  Level A2

• "The decision caused anger in the town."

  Level B1

• "His face was red with anger."

  Level A2

Synonyms and antonyms

Look-alikes and common mistakes

• rage : Rage is very strong anger that is hard to control. Anger can be mild or strong.
• annoyance : Annoyance is a small, short feeling. Anger is deeper and lasts longer.

Word family and forms

Forms: angers, angered, angering

Word partners

Words and phrases that often go with "anger".

• express anger
• control your anger
• a fit of anger
• public anger
• in anger
• full of anger

Origin

Anger came into English in the 1100s from Old Norse angr, which meant sorrow or grief. The word was borrowed from Scandinavian, and at first it meant trouble or pain. Only later did it come to mean the feeling of being cross.

Checked against: Wiktionary, the free dictionary, Dictionary.com.

How to remember it

Anger has the same letters as danger with the d moved: danger starts with d, and anger starts with a.

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