Anger vs Hurt - What's the difference?
anger | hurt |
A strong feeling of displeasure, hostility or antagonism towards someone or something, usually combined with an urge to harm.
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To cause such a feeling of antagonism.
To become angry.
To be painful.
To cause (a creature) physical pain and/or injury.
To cause (somebody) emotional pain.
To undermine, impede, or damage.
An emotional or psychological hurt (humiliation or bad experience)
* How to overcome old hurts of the past
(archaic) A bodily injury causing pain; a wound or bruise.
* 1605 , Shakespeare, King Lear vii
* John Locke
(archaic) injury; damage; detriment; harm
* Shakespeare
(heraldiccharge) A roundel azure (blue circular spot).
(engineering) A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.
A husk.
As nouns the difference between anger and hurt
is that anger is remorse, regret while hurt is an emotional or psychological hurt (humiliation or bad experience).As a verb hurt is
to be painful.As an adjective hurt is
wounded, physically injured.anger
English
(wikipedia anger)Noun
Our banks are out of control, passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. When a series of bank failures made this impossible, there was widespread anger , leading to the public humiliation of symbolic figures.}}
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- I made the experiment, setting the moxa where the greatest anger and soreness still continued.
Synonyms
* (strong feeling of antagonism) * See alsoDerived terms
() * angerful * angerless * angry * anger management * in angerVerb
(en verb)- Don't anger me.
- You anger too easily.
Synonyms
* (to cause anger) enrage, infuriate; annoy, vex, grill, displease; aggravate, irritate * (to become angry) get angry (see angry for more)References
* * Notes:Anagrams
* ----hurt
English
Verb
- Does your leg still hurt ? / It is starting to feel better.
- If anybody hurts my little brother I will get upset.
- This latest gaffe hurts the MP's reelection prospects still further.
Synonyms
* wound, injureDerived terms
* wouldn't hurt a flySee also
* (l)Noun
(en noun)- I have received a hurt .
- The pains of sickness and hurts all men feel.
- Thou dost me yet but little hurt .