angersome
English
Etymology
From anger + -some.
Adjective
angersome (comparative more angersome, superlative most angersome)
- Marked by, or showing anger; angry; wrathful
- 1840, Thomas Hood, Tylney Hall:
- "[...] — there's been summut done to make God Almighty angersome, — mark my words on it."
- 2013, Krishnanand, Sermons in the Storms:
- Unused to commotion and as also being surprised over that day's angersome attitude of her ever good-natured son, the Doctor's mother came and saw things to herself.
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- (chiefly dialectal, Scotland) Causing or arousing anger; vexatious; irritating
- 2015, David Shoemaker, Responsibility from the Margins:
- As a sentiment, then, agential anger evaluates its object as “angersome,” as meriting anger.
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Synonyms
- (marked by anger): wrathsome
Anagrams
- argemones, erga omnes