irate

/ai'reit/

Thân thiện

A customer speaks with an irate manager at the service counter.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Feeling or showing extreme anger: Describes a state of being very angry, often visibly so, with intense displeasure or rage.

Usage

• The word "irate" is used to describe a person, their mood, or their behavior when they are extremely angry. It often implies that the anger is outwardly visible or expressed. It is more formal than "angry" and stronger than "annoyed."

Examples

• Adjective:
  • The manager had to deal with an irate customer who had been waiting for an hour.
  • She became irate when she discovered the mistake in the report.
  • His irate tone made everyone in the room uncomfortable.

Advanced Usage

• "Irate at/about/over something": This structure is used to specify the cause of the extreme anger.
  • The residents were irate at the city council's decision to close the park.
  • He was irate over the constant delays.

Variants and Related Words

• Ire (n): A literary or formal word for anger.
  • The policy stirred public ire.
• Ireful (adj): Full of ire; angry. This is a less common synonym.
  • He shot her an ireful glance.

Synonyms

• Furious: Very angry, often involving violent energy or action.
• Incensed: Very angry, often because of something unjust or offensive.
• Enraged: Filled with rage; violently angry.
• Livid: Extremely angry (informal); can also mean furiously angry.

Antonyms

• Calm: Not showing or feeling nervousness, anger, or other strong emotions.
• Pleased: Feeling or showing pleasure and satisfaction.
• Contented: Happy and satisfied.

Idioms and Phrases

• To vent one's ire: To express one's anger openly.
  • He vented his ire on his poor assistant.
• To be in a state of high dudgeon: To be angry and offended (more formal/archaic, similar in intensity to being irate).
  • She left the meeting in a state of high dudgeon.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. feeling or showing extreme anger
   • irate protesters
   • ireful words

Từ đồng nghĩa

• ireful