irate

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] 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

• Bulgarian: яростен (bg) (jarosten), гневен (bg) (gneven)
• Catalan: irat
• Dutch: woedend (nl), ziedend (nl)
• Finnish: raivostunut (fi)
• French: furieux (fr), en colère (fr)
• German: wütend (de), erzürnt (de), rasend (de)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Ido: iracinta (io)
• Italian: irato (it)
• Russian: разъярённый (ru) (razʺjarjónnyj)
• Spanish: encolerizado (es)

References

• “irate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “irate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “irate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• Artie, Tiare, raite, retia, terai

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Italian

Adjective

irate f pl

1. (deprecated template usage) Feminine plural of adjective irato.

Anagrams

• ratei, reati, reità, tiare

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Latin

Adjective

(deprecated template usage) īrāte

1. vocative masculine singular of īrātus

References

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