i‧rate/ˌaɪˈreɪt◂/ adjective [date : 1800-1900; Language : Latin; Origin : iratus, from ira; ⇨ ire] extremely angry, especially because you think you have been treated unfairly SYN furious: ▪ an irate customer
adjective EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A good telephone voice can do much to improve the temper of irate or unhappy callers. ▪ Nevertheless irate parents clogged hearings devoted to the school budget to attack the middle school changes. ▪ On several occasions she has been hurried through them by impatient attorneys and by irate psychopaths on their way to methadone-maintenance clinics. ▪ Round a dark corner with an irate husband behind you. ▪ Those irate fans, however, may be mollified if the committee continues to deal consistently with all such offenders.
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