irate


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i·rate

 (ī-rāt′, ī′rāt′)
adj.
Full of or characterized by extreme anger; enraged. See Synonyms at angry.

[Latin īrātus, past participle of īrāscī, to be angry, from īra, anger; see eis- in Indo-European roots.]

i·rate′ly adv.
i·rate′ness n.
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irate

(aɪˈreɪt)
adj
1. incensed with anger; furious
2. marked by extreme anger: an irate letter.
[C19: from Latin īrātus enraged, from īrascī to be angry]
iˈrately adv
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i•rate

(aɪˈreɪt, ˈaɪ reɪt)

adj.
1. angry; enraged.
2. arising from or characterized by anger: an irate letter.
[1830–40; < Latin īrātus=īr(a) anger, ire + -ātus -ate1]
i•rate′ly, adv.
i•rate′ness, n.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj.1.irate - feeling or showing extreme anger; "irate protesters"; "ireful words"
angry - feeling or showing anger; "angry at the weather"; "angry customers"; "an angry silence"; "sending angry letters to the papers"
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irate

adjective angry, cross, furious, angered, mad (informal), provoked, annoyed, irritated, fuming (informal), choked, pissed (Brit., Austral., & N.Z. slang), infuriated, incensed, enraged, worked up, exasperated, indignant, pissed off (taboo slang), livid, riled, up in arms, incandescent, hacked off (U.S. slang), piqued, hot under the collar (informal), wrathful, fit to be tied (slang), as black as thunder He was so irate he almost threw me out of the place.
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irate

adjective
Full of or marked by extreme anger:
Idioms: fit to be tied, foaming at the mouth, in a rage, in a towering rage.
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Translations
غاضِب، مُتَهَيِّج غَضَباً
zlostný
vred
reiîur, æfur
dusmīgsnikns
kızgın öfkeli

irate

[aɪˈreɪt] ADJindignado, furioso
he got very iratese indignó mucho, se puso furioso
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irate

[aɪˈreɪt] adjcourroucé(e)
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

irate

adjzornig; crowdwütend
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irate

[aɪˈreɪt] adjirato/a, infuriato/a
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

irate

(aiˈreit) adjective
angry.
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References in classic literature ?
He locked with Nelson in the cockpit of the Reindeer, and in the mix-up barely escaped being brained by an iron bar wielded by irate French Frank--irate because a two-handed man had attacked a one- handed man.
The waiter who was busy with a party of engineers dining in the dining hall, came several times with an irate countenance in answer to her summons, and could not avoid carrying out her orders, as she gave them with such gracious insistence that there was no evading her.
He was a sneak and a thief, a mischief-maker, a fomenter of trouble; and irate squaws told him to his face, the while he eyed them alert and ready to dodge any quick-flung missile, that he was a wolf and worthless and bound to come to an evil end.
It is so!' He added an affirmatory nod, and continued to gaze upon me with a kind of irate solemnity, holding his substantial stick between his knees, with his hands clasped upon its head.
But, when I had paid for about a dozen chickens that he had killed; and had dragged him, growling and kicking, by the scruff of his neck, out of a hundred and fourteen street fights; and had had a dead cat brought round for my inspection by an irate female, who called me a murderer; and had been summoned by the man next door but one for having a ferocious dog at large, that had kept him pinned up in his own tool-shed, afraid to venture his nose outside the door for over two hours on a cold night; and had learned that the gardener, unknown to myself, had won thirty shillings by backing him to kill rats against time, then I began to think that maybe they'd let him remain on earth for a bit longer, after all.
"I peg of you yourself not to mix in vot is not your business!" suddenly replied the irate colonel.
I never saw him irate except when David was still sceptical, but then he would say quite warningly "He says it is true, so it must be true." This brings me to that one of his qualities, which at once gratified and pained me, his admiration for myself.
Thus, the pair of lovers could be jarred apart by misunderstood motives, by accident of fate, by jealous rivals, by irate parents, by crafty guardians, by scheming relatives, and so forth and so forth; they could be reunited by a brave deed of the man lover, by a similar deed of the woman lover, by change of heart in one lover or the other, by forced confession of crafty guardian, scheming relative, or jealous rival, by voluntary confession of same, by discovery of some unguessed secret, by lover storming girl's heart, by lover making long and noble self-sacrifice, and so on, endlessly.
They all went as meekly as sheep; the small lads fled from the house precipitately, but the three elder ones only retired to the next room, and remained there hoping for a chance to explain and apologise, and so appease the irate young lady, who had suddenly turned the tables and clattered them about their ears.
Jaggers suddenly became most irate. "Now, I warned you before," said he, throwing his forefinger at the terrified client, "that if you ever presumed to talk in that way here, I'd make an example of you.
I agree heartily with her disgust at the epithets employed in her hearing, and towards an invalid, by the irate skipper.
He was irate and defiant; and Tom, though he espoused his father's quarrels and shared his father's sense of injury, was not without some of the feeling that oppressed Maggie when Mr.