Anger vs. Mad — What's the Difference?

Anger, also known as wrath or rage, is an intense emotional state involving a strong uncomfortable and non-cooperative response to a perceived provocation, hurt or threat.A person experiencing anger will often experience physical effects, such as increased heart rate, elevated blood pressure, and increased levels of adrenaline and noradrenaline. Some view anger as an emotion which triggers part of the fight or flight response.

Mentally ill; insane

A strong feeling of annoyance, displeasure, or hostility

Very enthusiastic about someone or something

Fill (someone) with anger; provoke anger in

Very angry

A strong feeling of displeasure or hostility.

Great; remarkable

To make angry; enrage or provoke.

Very; extremely

To become angry

Make (someone) mad

A strong feeling of displeasure, hostility or antagonism towards someone or something, usually combined with an urge to harm, often stemming from perceived provocation, hurt, or threat.

Angry; resentful

(obsolete) Pain or stinging.

Mentally deranged

(transitive) To cause such a feeling of antagonism in.

Characteristic of mental derangement

(intransitive) To become angry.

Temporarily or apparently deranged by violent sensations, emotions, or ideas

Trouble; vexation; also, physical pain or smart of a sore, etc.

Lacking restraint or reason; foolish

A strong passion or emotion of displeasure or antagonism, excited by a real or supposed injury or insult to one's self or others, or by the intent to do such injury.

Feeling or showing strong liking or enthusiasm

To make painful; to cause to smart; to inflame.

Marked by a lack of restraint, especially by extreme excitement, confusion, or agitation

To excite to anger; to enrage; to provoke.

Exhibiting uncharacteristic aggressiveness, especially as a result of rabies, spongiform encephalopathy, or another neurological disease. Used of animals

A strong emotion; a feeling that is oriented toward some real or supposed grievance

Excellent; wonderful

The state of being angry

Abundant; great

Belligerence aroused by a real or supposed wrong (personified as one of the deadly sins)

To make or become mad; madden.

Make angry;

Extremely; very

Become angry;

Insane; crazy, mentally deranged.

Angry, annoyed.

Bizarre; incredible.

Wildly confused or excited.

Extremely foolish or unwise; irrational; imprudent.

Extremely enthusiastic about; crazy about; infatuated with; overcome with desire for.

(of animals) Abnormally ferocious or furious; or, rabid, affected with rabies.

Intensifier, signifying abundance or high quality of a thing; very, much or many.

(of a compass needle) Having impaired polarity.

Intensifier; to a large degree; extremely; exceedingly; very; unbelievably.

To be or become mad.

To madden, to anger, to frustrate.

Disordered in intellect; crazy; insane.

Excited beyond self-control or the restraint of reason; inflamed by violent or uncontrollable desire, passion, or appetite; as, to be mad with terror, lust, or hatred; mad against political reform.

Proceeding from, or indicating, madness; expressing distraction; prompted by infatuation, fury, or extreme rashness.

Extravagant; immoderate.

Furious with rage, terror, or disease; - said of the lower animals; as, a mad bull; esp., having hydrophobia; rabid; as, a mad dog.

Angry; out of patience; vexed; as, to get mad at a person.

Having impaired polarity; - applied to a compass needle.

To make mad or furious; to madden.

To be mad; to go mad; to rave. See Madding.

An earthworm.

Roused to anger;

Affected with madness or insanity;

Marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion;

Very foolish;