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,^[1]

     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, chapter 7, in The Maltese Falcon‎^[2], New York: Alfred A. Knopf, page 84:

     His eyes had become unangry and wary.

   • 1938, R. K. Narayan, chapter 6, in The Dark Room‎^[3]:

     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, chapter 26, in His Mother’s Son‎^[4], New York: Harcourt, page 291:

     “I think it’s anger, Jana.” (Cooper says this in such an exquisitely unangry way.) “Anger at you.”

Derived terms

• unangrily

Anagrams

• Nyungar