angrier

adjectiveA2+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #9,408 of 15,258leans spoken

Angrier means more filled with anger than before, or than somebody else. The temperature has gone up.

It is the comparative of angry, and it follows the ordinary rule for short adjectives ending in a consonant and y, which change to i before -er. Angry, angrier, angriest. It takes than for the comparison, and about or with for the cause. There is a common construction in getting angrier and angrier, which describes a slow build rather than an explosion, and it is one of the standard ways English shows a rising temper.

Definitions of angrier

1adjectiveangrierMore angry than before or than someone else.A2+
“The longer he waited the angrier he became.”

Where it comes from

Middle English
angry
English
angry
English, today
angrier

angry comes from Middle English angry. From Middle English angry, equivalent to anger + -y; see anger.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in A Man Called Ove, Word Building

First appears in chapter 23 of A Man Called Ove.

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angrier in the wild

The first one is more pop-based and melodic, the second angrier with a more punk/hard rock sound.
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The demonstrations were angrier and more violent than those during the February Revolution months earlier.
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However, with their new angrier and more raw sound, the band escaped from critics that stated that Radio 4 were a carbon copy of The Clash.
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