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Ärger — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • anger noun A strong feeling of displeasure or hostility, often triggered by feeling wronged or threatened.
  • annoyance noun A feeling of mild irritation, or the thing that causes it.
  • chafe noun Warmth produced by rubbing against something.
  • choler noun Another word for yellow bile.
  • grievance noun A formal complaint, especially about unfair treatment at work.
  • hassle noun A source of trouble, bother, or minor annoyance.
  • ire noun Intense anger; wrath, especially the kind provoked by a specific offense.
  • irritation noun A feeling of annoyance or slight anger.
  • nuisance noun A minor annoyance or source of inconvenience.
  • trouble noun A difficult, worrying, or dangerous situation or problem.
  • vexation noun The act of annoying or irritating someone, or a particular case of this.
  • worse adj More bad; of lower quality, more severe, or less desirable, than something already bad.
  • wrath noun Intense anger, often with a desire for revenge.

Senses

Ärger is used for these senses in English:

  • anger A strong and unpleasant feeling of displeasure, hostility, or antagonism towards someone or something, usually combined with an urge to yell, say curse words, and/or physically harm or cause damage or destruction to things or attack or assault living beings, often stemming from perceived provocation, hurt, threat, insults, or unfair or unjust treatment, or a situation not going the way one had desired or planned.
  • annoyance (uncountable) The psychological state of being annoyed or irritated.
  • chafe (archaic, countable, uncountable) Vexation; irritation of mind; rage.
  • choler Anger or irritability.
  • grievance (uncountable) Feelings of being wronged; outrage; resentment, bitterness or anger.
  • hard feelings (idiomatic) Resentment, anger.
  • ire Great anger; wrath; keen resentment.
  • irritation A condition of morbid excitability or oversensitiveness of an organ or part of the body; a state in which the application of ordinary stimuli produces pain or excessive or vitiated action.

anger — full definition

  1. noun A strong feeling of displeasure or hostility, often triggered by feeling wronged or threatened.
  2. verb To make someone feel angry.
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