A dictionary of family values
an·ger (²ng“g…r) n. 1. A strong feeling of displeasure or hostility. --an·ger v. an·gered, an·ger·ing, an·gers. --tr. 1. To make angry; enrage or provoke. --intr. To become angry: She angers too quickly. [Middle English, from Old Norse angr, sorrow. See angh- below.]
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SYNONYMS: anger, rage, fury, ire, wrath, resentment, indignation. These nouns denote varying degrees of marked displeasure. Anger, the most general, is strong displeasure: suppressed her anger; threw a book in a fit of anger. Rage and fury are closely related in the sense of intense, explosive, often destructive emotion: “Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned” (William Congreve). “Beware the fury of a patient man” (John Dryden). Ire is a term for anger that is frequently encountered in literature: “The best way to escape His ire/Is, not to seem too happy” (Robert Browning). Wrath applies especially to fervid anger that seeks vengeance or punishment, often on an epic scale: rebellious words sure to kindle a parent's wrath; the wrath of God. Resentment refers to ill will and smoldering anger generated by a sense of grievance: The strike can be traced to the personal resentment of the foreman against the factory owner. Indignation is righteous anger at something regarded as being wrongful, unjust, or evil: “public indignation about takeovers causing people to lose their jobs” (Allan Sloan).
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angh-. Important derivatives are: anger, anxious, anguish, angina.
angh-. Tight, painfully constricted, painful. 1. AGNAIL, (HANGNAIL), from Old English ang-nægl, “painful spike (in the flesh),” corn, excrescence (nægl, spike; see nogh-), from Germanic *ang-, compressed, hard, painful. 2. Suffixed form *angh-os-. ANGER, from Old Norse angr, sorrow, grief, from Germanic *angaz. 3. Suffixed form *angh-os-ti-. ANGST1, from Old High German angust, anxiety, from Germanic *angusti-. 4. ANXIOUS, from Latin angere, to strangle, torment. 5. Suffixed form *angh-os-to-. ANGUISH, from Latin angustus, narrow. 6. QUINSY, from Greek ankhein, to squeeze, embrace. 7. ANGINA, from Greek ankhon¶, a strangling. [Pokorny anªh- 42.]
re·sent·ment n. Indignation or ill will felt as a result of a real or imagined grievance. See Synonyms at anger.
* Most material is from the American Heritage Dictionary - 3rd Edition. * | posted by Unknown @ 2/16/2004 04:00:00 PM
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an·ger (²ng“g…r) n. 1. A strong feeling of displeasure or hostility. --an·ger v. an·gered, an·ger·ing, an·gers. --tr. 1. To make angry; enrage or provoke. --intr. To become angry: She angers too quickly. [Middle English, from Old Norse angr, sorrow. See angh- below.]
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SYNONYMS: anger, rage, fury, ire, wrath, resentment, indignation. These nouns denote varying degrees of marked displeasure. Anger, the most general, is strong displeasure: suppressed her anger; threw a book in a fit of anger. Rage and fury are closely related in the sense of intense, explosive, often destructive emotion: “Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned” (William Congreve). “Beware the fury of a patient man” (John Dryden). Ire is a term for anger that is frequently encountered in literature: “The best way to escape His ire/Is, not to seem too happy” (Robert Browning). Wrath applies especially to fervid anger that seeks vengeance or punishment, often on an epic scale: rebellious words sure to kindle a parent's wrath; the wrath of God. Resentment refers to ill will and smoldering anger generated by a sense of grievance: The strike can be traced to the personal resentment of the foreman against the factory owner. Indignation is righteous anger at something regarded as being wrongful, unjust, or evil: “public indignation about takeovers causing people to lose their jobs” (Allan Sloan).
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angh-. Important derivatives are: anger, anxious, anguish, angina.
angh-. Tight, painfully constricted, painful. 1. AGNAIL, (HANGNAIL), from Old English ang-nægl, “painful spike (in the flesh),” corn, excrescence (nægl, spike; see nogh-), from Germanic *ang-, compressed, hard, painful. 2. Suffixed form *angh-os-. ANGER, from Old Norse angr, sorrow, grief, from Germanic *angaz. 3. Suffixed form *angh-os-ti-. ANGST1, from Old High German angust, anxiety, from Germanic *angusti-. 4. ANXIOUS, from Latin angere, to strangle, torment. 5. Suffixed form *angh-os-to-. ANGUISH, from Latin angustus, narrow. 6. QUINSY, from Greek ankhein, to squeeze, embrace. 7. ANGINA, from Greek ankhon¶, a strangling. [Pokorny anªh- 42.]
re·sent·ment n. Indignation or ill will felt as a result of a real or imagined grievance. See Synonyms at anger.
* Most material is from the American Heritage Dictionary - 3rd Edition. * | posted by Unknown @ 2/16/2004 04:00:00 PM
