Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Full of or characterized by extreme anger; enraged. synonym: angry.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Excited to anger; made angry; enraged; incensed.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Recent Angry; incensed; enraged.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Extremely angry; wrathful; enraged.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective feeling or showing extreme anger

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

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

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From Latin iratus ("angered, angry"), from irasci ("to be angry"), from ira ("anger, wrath").

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Examples

  • Sowell lamented the decline of politicians, but he ignored the parallel decline in irate sufferering humanity.

    Matthew Yglesias » Sowell’s Coup 2007

  • By some estimates, as many as half of all flights contain an "irate" of one kind or another, from counter pounders to worse.

    Flying Wildly Out Of Control 2008

  • The Obama supporter claims President Clinton became "irate" and may have even touched his face during a confrontation afterwards.

    CNN Transcript Feb 18, 2008 2008

  • Mr. Lugo-Galicia reports that he was "irate," and launched recriminations against his closest confidants saying, "they lied to me, they deceived me."

    Showdown at Fort Tiuna 2007

  • "He came to our hotel last night, kind of irate," I said, after a moment.

    Grave Surprise Harris, Charlaine 2006

  • 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.

    The Tenant of Wildfell Hall 2002

  • Volpe was reportedly "irate," and he and Wiese argued at the desk; Wiese had never liked Volpe.

    Incident in the 70th Precinct Brenner, Marie 1997

  • The AMWU says the Australian workers were "irate" after being told last week they had been retrenched.

    AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories 2010

  • 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.

    The Guardian World News Matthew Weaver 2010

  • While I am probably one of those you are "irate" with because I see a need for our own oil.

    The Tech Report: News 2010

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