unangry

English

Etymology

un- + angry

Adjective

unangry (comparative more unangry, superlative most unangry)

  1. Not angry.
    • 1718, Nicholas Rowe (translator), Lucan’s Pharsalia Translated into English Verse, London: T. Johnson, 1720, Book I, p. 47,
      Or did thy glowing beams O Phœbus, shine
      Malignant in the Lion’s scorching Sign,
      Wide o’er the World consuming fires might roll,
      And Heav’n be seen to flame from pole to pole:
      Thro’ peaceful Orbits these unangry glide.
    • 1930, Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Chapter 7, p. 84,
      His eyes had become unangry and wary.
    • 1938, R. K. Narayan, The Dark Room, Chapter 6,
      She would have given anything to lighten her mind of its burdens and to be able to think of her husband without suspicion. Just a word from him would do, just an unangry word; even a lie, a soothing lie.
    • 2003, Cai Emmons, His Mother’s Son, New York: Harcourt, Chapter 26, p. 291,
      “I think it’s anger, Jana.” (Cooper says this in such an exquisitely unangry way.) “Anger at you.”

Derived terms

  • unangrily

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