irate

From Latin īrātus (“angered, angry”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from īrāscor (“to be angry”), from īra (“anger, wrath”).

• IPA^(key): /aɪˈɹeɪt/, /ˈaɪɹeɪt/

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• Rhymes: -eɪt

irate (comparative more irate or irater, superlative most irate or iratest)

1. Extremely angry; wrathful; enraged.

   Synonyms: furious, infuriated, sore; see also Thesaurus:angry

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “irate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “irate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “irate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• Artie, Tiare, raite, retia, terai

• IPA^(key): /iˈra.te/
• Rhymes: -ate
• Hyphenation: i‧rà‧te

irate f pl

1. feminine plural of irato

• -itare, itera, ratei, reati, reità, tiare

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [iːˈraː.tɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [iˈraː.t̪e]

īrātē (comparative īrātius, superlative īrātissimē)

1. angrily

īrāte

1. vocative masculine singular of īrātus

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