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English
Etymology
From Latin īrātus (“angered, angry”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from īrāscor (“to be angry”), from īra (“anger, wrath”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
irate (comparative more irate or irater, superlative most irate or iratest)
- Extremely angry; wrathful; enraged.
- Synonyms: furious, infuriated, sore; see also Thesaurus:angry
Translations
extremely angry
- Bulgarian: яростен (bg) (jarosten), гневен (bg) (gneven)
- Catalan: irat
- Dutch: woedend (nl), ziedend (nl)
- Finnish: raivostunut (fi)
- French: furieux (fr), en colère (fr)
- Galician: irado m, colérico m, furioso m
- German: wütend (de), erzürnt (de), rasend (de)
- Hungarian: dühös (hu), feldühödött (hu), dühödt (hu), felháborodott (hu), felbőszült (hu), haragos (hu)
- Ido: iracinta (io)
- Italian: irato (it)
- Latin: īrātus
- Romanian: furios (ro) m
- Russian: разъярённый (ru) (razʺjarjónnyj)
- Slovak: rozzúrený, zúrivý (sk), zúriaci
- Spanish: encolerizado (es), airado (es), iracundo (es)
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References
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E Smith, editors (1911), “irate”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
- “irate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “irate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Anagrams
Italian
Adjective
irate f pl
- feminine plural of irato
Anagrams
Latin
Pronunciation
Adjective
īrāte
- vocative masculine singular of īrātus
References