Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- adj. Extremely angry; enraged. See Synonyms at angry.
- adj. Characterized or occasioned by anger: an irate phone call.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- adj. Extremely angry; wrathful; enraged.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adj. Angry; incensed; enraged.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Excited to anger; made angry; enraged; incensed.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adj. feeling or showing extreme anger
Etymologies
Examples
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Sowell lamented the decline of politicians, but he ignored the parallel decline in irate sufferering humanity.
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By some estimates, as many as half of all flights contain an "irate" of one kind or another, from counter pounders to worse.
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The Obama supporter claims President Clinton became "irate" and may have even touched his face during a confrontation afterwards.
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Mr. Lugo-Galicia reports that he was "irate," and launched recriminations against his closest confidants saying, "they lied to me, they deceived me."
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"He came to our hotel last night, kind of irate," I said, after a moment.
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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.
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Volpe was reportedly "irate," and he and Wiese argued at the desk; Wiese had never liked Volpe.
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The AMWU says the Australian workers were "irate" after being told last week they had been retrenched.
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Alasdair Pal, the 20-year-old theology student who edits the Tab, said he had been contacted by an "irate" Cambridge press officer urging him to remove the story from the website.
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While I am probably one of those you are "irate" with because I see a need for our own oil.
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