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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Angry \An"gry\, adjective [Compar. {Angrier}; superl. {Angriest}.] [See {Anger}.]
1. Troublesome; vexatious; rigorous. [Obs.]
God had provided a severe and angry education to chastise the forwardness of a young spirit. --Jer. Taylor.
2. Inflamed and painful, as a sore.
3. Touched with anger; under the emotion of anger; feeling resentment; enraged; -- followed generally by with before a person, and at before a thing.
Be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves. --Gen. xlv. 5.
Wherefore should God be angry at thy voice? --Eccles. v. 6.
4. Showing anger; proceeding from anger; acting as if moved by anger; wearing the marks of anger; as, angry words or tones; an angry sky; angry waves. ''An angry countenance.'' --Prov. xxv. 23.
5. Red. [R.]
Sweet rose, whose hue, angry and brave. --Herbert.
6. Sharp; keen; stimulated. [R.]
I never ate with angrier appetite. --Tennyson.
Syn: Passionate; resentful; irritated; irascible; indignant; provoked; enraged; incensed; exasperated; irate; hot; raging; furious; wrathful; wroth; choleric; inflamed; infuriated.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
angry
adjective
1: feeling or showing anger; "angry at the weather"; "angry customers"; "an angry silence"; "sending angry letters to the papers" [ant: {unangry(p)}]
2: (of the elements) as if showing violent anger; "angry clouds on the horizon"; "furious winds"; "the raging sea" [syn: {furious}, {raging}, {tempestuous}, {wild}]
3: severely inflamed and painful; "an angry sore" [also: {angriest}, {angrier}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
121 Moby Thesaurus words for "angry": acid, acrimonious, aggravated, algetic, anarchic, angered, annoyed, blustering, blusterous, blustery, bothered, browned off, browned-off, bugged, burning, burnt-up, caustic, chafed, chaotic, choleric, cloudy, corrosive, cross, cyclonic, dirty, discontented, disturbed, enraged, exasperated, feeling evil, festering, fiery, foul, frantic, frenzied, fuming, furious, galled, griped, heated, hellish, in a temper, incensed, indignant, inflamed, infuriate, infuriated, insensate, irascible, irate, ireful, irked, irritable, irritated, livid, mad, maddened, miffed, mindless, nettled, orgasmic, orgastic, out of humor, out of sorts, out of temper, pandemoniac, peeved, perturbed, piqued, pissed, pissed off, pissed-off, provoked, put out, raging, rainy, rankling, ravening, raving, raw, red, red-faced, resentful, riled, riled up, riley, rip-roaring, roiled, ruffled, sensitive, shirty, smarting, sore, splenetic, storming, stormy, tempestuous, tender, ticked off, tingling, tornadic, troubled, troublous, tumultuous, turbulent, typhonic, typhoonish, up in arms, uproarious, upset, uptight, vexed, waxy, wild, wild-eyed, worked up, wrathful, wrathy, wroth, wrought up, wrought-up
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