irate

irate

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aɪˈɹeɪt/, /ˈaɪɹeɪt/
• Rhymes: -eɪt

Adjective

irate (comparative irater, superlative iratest)

1. Extremely angry; wrathful; enraged.

Synonyms

• furious
• infuriated
• sore
• See also Thesaurus:angry

Related terms

• irascible
• irately
• irateness
• ire

Translations

extremely angry

Catalan: irat Dutch: woedend (nl), ziedend (nl) Finnish: raivostunut (fi) French: furieux (fr), en colère (fr) German: wütend (de), erzürnt (de), rasend (de)

Ido: iracinta (io) Italian: irato Russian: разъярённый (ru) (razʺjarjónnyj) Spanish: encolerizado (es)

References

• irate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• irate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• irate at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Artie, Tiare, raite, retia, terai

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Italian

Adjective

irate f pl

1. Feminine plural of adjective irato.

Anagrams

• ratei, reati, reità, tiare

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Latin

Adjective

īrāte

1. vocative masculine singular of īrātus

References

• irate in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press