infuriating

Thân thiện

The customer found the long wait and lack of updates infuriating.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Causing intense anger or extreme annoyance: Describes something or someone that provokes a powerful feeling of irritation, frustration, or rage.

Usage

• The word "infuriating" is used to describe situations, behaviors, or characteristics that are profoundly annoying or anger-inducing. It emphasizes a strong emotional reaction.
• It is commonly used attributively (before a noun) or predicatively (after a linking verb like "is" or "was").

Examples

• Adjective:
  • The constant delays were absolutely infuriating.
  • She has an infuriating habit of interrupting people.
  • It is infuriating when technology fails at the worst possible moment.

Advanced Usage

• "to find something infuriating": To experience something as a source of great anger.
  • I find his lack of punctuality completely infuriating.
• Used to intensify a description of frustration.
  • The infuriating simplicity of the solution made him even angrier.

Variants and Related Words

• Infuriate (verb): To make someone extremely angry.
  • His comments infuriated the entire team.
• Infuriatingly (adverb): In a manner that causes great anger.
  • The system is infuriatingly slow.

Synonyms

• Exasperating: Intensely irritating.
• Maddening: Driving to the point of madness or fury.
• Gallling: Causing annoyance due to perceived injustice or insolence.
• Vexing: Causing annoyance, worry, or perplexity.

Antonyms

• Pleasing: Giving a sense of happy satisfaction.
• Delightful: Causing great pleasure.
• Soothing: Having a calming, pacifying effect.

Idioms and Phrases

• The last straw (that is infuriating): The final problem in a series that causes one to lose patience.
  • His rude email was the infuriating last straw.
• To add insult to (infuriating) injury: To make a bad situation even worse, often in a way that feels disrespectful.
  • After losing my wallet, the infuriating taxi fare home added insult to injury.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. extremely annoying or displeasing
   • his cavelier curtness of manner was exasperating
   • I've had an exasperating day
   • her infuriating indifference
   • the ceaseless tumult of the jukebox was maddening

Từ đồng nghĩa

• exasperating
• maddening
• vexing