Irate

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Irate \I*rate"\, a. [L. iratus, fr. irasci to be angry. See
     {Ire}.]
     Angry; incensed; enraged. [Recent]
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           The irate colonel . . . stood speechless. --Thackeray.


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           Mr. Jaggers suddenly became most irate.  --Dickens.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  irate
       adj : feeling or showing extreme anger; "irate protesters";
             "ireful words" [syn: {ireful}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  21 Moby Thesaurus words for "irate":
     angered, angry, browned-off, choleric, cross, incensed, indignant,
     ireful, livid, mad, pissed, pissed-off, riled up, sore, ticked off,
     waxy, worked up, wrathful, wrathy, wroth, wrought-up