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angry | an |

As an adjective angry

is displaying or feeling anger.

As a noun an is

favor, grace.

angry

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Displaying or feeling anger.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , passage=Then we relapsed into a discomfited silence, and wished we were anywhere else. But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud, and with such a hearty enjoyment that instead of getting angry and more mortified we began to laugh ourselves, and instantly felt better.}}
  • (said about a wound or a rash) Inflamed and painful.
    • The broken glass left two angry cuts across my arm.
  • Dark and stormy, menacing.
    • Angry clouds raced across the sky.
  • * {{quote-book, 1756, (Christopher Smart), 3= The Book of the Epodes, chapter=Ode II, by=(Horace)
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    Synonyms

    * (displaying anger) mad, enraged, wrathful, furious, apoplectic; irritated, annoyed, vexed, pissed off, cheesed off, worked up, psyched up * See also

    Derived terms

    * angrily * angriness * Angry Young Man

    See also

    * (Anger)

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    an

    English

    (wikipedia an)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Article

    (head)
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2 , passage=Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.}}
  • (UK, non-standard) used in many British regional accents before some words beginning with a pronounced h
    • Usage notes
    * The article (an) is used before vowel sounds and (optionally) before silent aitches, and (a) before consonant sounds. * The various article senses of (a), all are senses of (term).

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) an

    Conjunction

    (English Conjunctions)
  • (archaic) If, so long as.
    • An it please you, my lord.
  • (archaic) as if; as though.
    • Samuel Taylor Coleridge , The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere (Original Version of 1797) 61-64:
    At length did cross an Albatross, Thorough the Fog it came; And an it were a Christian Soul, We hail'd it in God's Name.

    Etymology 3

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The first letter of the Georgian alphabet, (Nuskhuri).

    • Etymology 4

    From the (etyl) preposition an/on.

    Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • In each; to or for each; per.
    • I was only going twenty miles an hour.
    Usage notes
    * This is the same as the word a'' in such contexts, modified because of preceding an unpronounced ''h''. ''The train was speeding along at a mile a minute.
    Synonyms
    * per

    References

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