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adjective

as in angry
feeling or showing anger angered residents demanded to know why their street hadn't been plowed three days after the snowstorm

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verb

past tense of anger
as in infuriated
to make angry it's virtually impossible to anger Mrs. Peterson—she's the most easygoing person I've ever known

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Recent Examples of angered
Adjective
The bar has been sparsely attended on what would normally be busy Saturday nights as some angered customers have called for a boycott, according to The Boston Globe. — Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 23 Sep. 2026 Police said the two male juveniles became angered when the other three would not take them to buy marijuana. — Carlos E. Castañeda, CBS News, 20 Jan. 2026 Soon, the faces of the angered New York City citizens around her soften. — Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 15 Aug. 2025
Verb
The ouster of Bela Bajaria from the role that Rice now occupies was messy, and angered many inside and outside of Netflix. — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 17 Oct. 2026 Cotham, previously a Democrat, switched parties in 2023, a move that gave the GOP a veto-proof supermajority in the state House and angered Democrats across North Carolina. — Mary Ramsey, Charlotte Observer, 16 Oct. 2026 The Houthis, angered by an attack on the Sanaa airport under its control and a longstanding blockade on the rebels, declared a blockade of its own against neighboring Saudi Arabia. — ABC News, 16 Oct. 2026 No commercial goods have entered the Gaza Strip for two days, Israeli authorities said Thursday, blaming the suspension on merchants angered by taxes imposed by the militant group Hamas — a claim that Palestinian importers deny. — Sam Metz, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2026 Although the Biennale eventually restored the name, the decision angered China, which claims sovereignty over Taiwan. — Vivienne Chow, ARTnews.com, 29 Sep. 2026 That is, Lamashtu spoke out about something that angered and disgusted the divine patriarch, and she was cast down to earth. — Eleanor Johnson, Harpers Magazine, 22 Sep. 2026 Miceli told police that his daughter had experienced bullying at school, and that he had been angered by having to clean the oil off his porch, prosecutors added. — Caelyn Pender, Mercury News, 22 Sep. 2026 But Trump’s solution, to import 300,000 metric tons of beef and sell it at a reduced cost, angered American ranchers. — Sarah Henry, AZCentral.com, 11 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for angered
  1. angry
  2. infuriated
  3. enraged
  4. outraged
  5. indignant
  6. annoyed
  7. furious
  8. mad
Adjective
  • Protests by high school students angry about dilapidated, understaffed schools have roiled France since mid-September.
    — JOHN LEICESTER, Arkansas Online, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Keeping The Faith So all’s well that ends well, and frantic, for Halfway 2 Jesus, Rock’s 13th album and the follow-up to 2022’s angry, politically charged Bad Reputation.
    — Gary Graff, Billboard, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of angry
Verb
  • Sydney Sweeney is no stranger to starring in a controversial ad — and her latest effort has infuriated female athletes, including Olympians.
    — Jake Kanter, Deadline, 14 Sep. 2026
  • But Marcia was beginning to sound like Marcia on the page, Marcia in those essays that both excited and infuriated her readers.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of infuriated
Adjective
  • And not just any velociraptor, but the enraged dinosaur that pushed franchise champion Rachel Reilly into a volcano, thereby burning the reality TV icon to a crisp in a sea of lava.
    — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Imagine the ripe smell of swamp-wet dogs, the acrid stench of overheated, enraged bear, the slippery warm blood of pack members already lost; the simply insufferable noise and confusion in that dank little hole.
    — Paul Schullery, Outdoor Life, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of enraged
Verb
  • Radicals, outraged at its concessions, wanted to fight and topple the shogunate in favor of imperial rule.
    — Ian Buruma, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026
  • Team member outraged University of Maryland freshman Camryn Bryant is on the club tennis team that is embroiled in the scandal.
    — Mike Hellgren, CBS News, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of outraged
Adjective
  • His tone was reminiscent of the indignant woman in Yamaska who’d unloaded on me while walking her dog.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Oct. 2026
  • The same people who were indignant over Hunter Biden have turned a blind eye to the conflicts of interest rife in this administration.
    — Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of indignant
Verb
  • Returning the sarcasm tends to cause the same problem, with two people annoyed instead of one.
    — Angela Haupt, Time, 14 Oct. 2026
  • Williams is annoyed and wants order while Kirke is hardly paying attention and lugs vases of flowers through her home.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of annoyed
Adjective
  • Before long there were three squad cars with lights flashing parked in the drive, with a furious Grandpa Joe trying to sort out the trouble.
    — Kerry Kennedy, Vanity Fair, 13 Oct. 2026
  • The conflicts are raw and unresolved, and Churchill forces theatergoers to make up their own minds about the characters’ furious dialect.
    — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of furious
Adjective
  • Richard Dawkins, the British evolutionary theorist and author of the groundbreaking best seller The Selfish Gene (1976), among many other books, appears to have gone a bit mad.
    — James Gleick, The New York Review of Books, 17 Oct. 2026
  • Mel Brooks’ comedy The Producers also took a poke at that mad man with Springtime for Hitler.
    — Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of mad

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