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
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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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.
Grave Surprise Harris, Charlaine 2006
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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.
Incident in the 70th Precinct Brenner, Marie 1997
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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.
The Guardian World News Matthew Weaver 2010
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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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