(a) Angry, irate; angry (with sb., sth., oneself); also in fig. context; (b) inordinately angry, furious; violently enraged; visibly angry; crazed with rage; wode ~ [see also wod(e adv. (b)]; (c) given to anger, easily enraged, irascible [sometimes difficult to distinguish from (a)]; also, fierce, bold; (d) vexed, perturbed; dismayed, displeased [sometimes difficult to distinguish from (a)]; also, apprehensive, sad; ~ or blithe, saught (wel-paied) or ~, etc.; (e) of a pair or group of persons or kingdoms: angrily at odds, mutually angry; also in fig. context [quot. c1390]; ~ togeder; (f) of an animal or a bird: angry; also, physically disturbed, distressed; also, fierce, hostile; ~ togeder, angrily at odds; (g) in prov. expressions and conventional comparisons; also, as noun: an angry person [1st quot.].

Of God, Christ, or a pagan god: righteously irate, displeased; wrathful; full of wrath (against sb.); greatly displeased (with someone’s actions); vengeable ~; wode ~.

(a) Of a feeling, passion, or state of mind: characterized by wrathfulness or vengefulness (against sb.); (b) of a natural phenomenon: characterized by turbulence, violence, or harshness; (c) of deeds, expectations: perverse, evil; ~ hele [see wrother-hele n.]; (d) of an occasion: unfortunate; also of astrological influences: unpropitious; o ~ time, in an evil hour.

As surname.