The irate colonel . . . stood speechless. --Thackeray.
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Mr. Jaggers suddenly became most irate. --Dickens. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
IRATE — Ecran principal iRATE Radio iRATE est un logiciel libre sous la licence publique générale GNU qui permet de télécharger de la musique libre (Creative Commons, Licence Art Libre) sous format MP3. Il est programmé en java, compilé avec GCJ … Wikipédia en Français
irate — irate; irate·ly; irate·ness; … English syllables
Irate — Irate, Ignatius de J., geb. 1635 zu Biscaya in Spanien, Landschaftsmaler; st. 1685 daselbst … Pierer's Universal-Lexikon
irate — (adj.) 1838, from L. iratus angry, enraged, violent, furious, pp. of irasci grow angry, from ira anger (see IRE (Cf. ire)) … Etymology dictionary
irate — *angry, wrathful, wroth, mad, indignant, acrimonious Analogous words: provoked, exasperated, nettled, irritated (see IRRITATE): incensed, infuriated, enraged (see ANGER vb) Contrasted words: *forbearing, tolerant, clement, lenient, indulgent,… … New Dictionary of Synonyms
irate — [adj] angry angered, annoyed, blown a gasket*, enraged, exasperated, fuming, furious, incensed, indignant, infuriated, irritated, livid, mad, piqued, provoked, riled, steamed*, ticked off*, up in arms*, worked up*, wrathful, wroth; concepts… … New thesaurus
irate — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ extremely angry. DERIVATIVES irately adverb. ORIGIN Latin iratus, from ira anger … English terms dictionary
irate — [ī rāt′, ī′rāt΄] adj. [L iratus < irasci, to be angry < ira, IRE] angry; wrathful; incensed irately adv. irateness n … English World dictionary
iRATE — Ecran principal iRATE Radio iRATE est un logiciel libre sous la licence publique générale GNU qui permet de télécharger de la musique libre (Creative Commons, Licence Art Libre) sous format MP3. Il est programmé en java, compilé avec GCJ, et… … Wikipédia en Français
irate — [[t]aɪre͟ɪt[/t]] ADJ GRADED If someone is irate, they are very angry about something. The owner was so irate he almost threw me out of the place... She then wrote an extremely irate letter to the New Statesman about me. Syn: incensed, furious … English dictionary
