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- Dictionaryirate/ʌɪˈreɪt/
adjective
- 1. feeling or characterized by great anger: "a barrage of irate letters"
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adjective. us / ɑɪˈreɪt / Add to word list. very angry: We’ve been getting some irate calls from customers. (Definition of irate from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of irate. irate. Nor do we wish to conjure up a vision of an irate park keeper hounding the general public. From the. Hansard archive.
1. : roused to ire. an irate taxpayer. 2. : arising from anger. irate words. irately adverb. irateness noun. Synonyms. angered. angry. apoplectic. ballistic. cheesed off [ chiefly British] choleric. enraged. foaming. fuming. furious. hopping. horn-mad. hot. incensed. indignant. inflamed. enflamed.
adjective. us / ɑɪˈreɪt / Add to word list. very angry: We’ve been getting some irate calls from customers. (Definition of irate from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of irate. irate. They tend to get irate over things that other people let go pretty easy. From CNN.
adjective. angry; enraged: an irate customer. Synonyms: provoked, irritated, furious. Antonyms: calm. arising from or characterized by anger: an irate letter to the editor. irate. / aɪˈreɪt / adjective. incensed with anger; furious. marked by extreme anger. an irate letter.
Definition of irate adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
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.
When cartoon characters are irate, they're so mad that smoke comes out of their ears. The first syllable of irate is ir for ire, related to the Greek word oistros which means "thing causing madness." An irate investor might sell all his or her stock in a company.
