IRATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does irate mean? 

• IRATE (adjective)
  The adjective IRATE has 1 sense:

1. feeling or showing extreme anger

  Familiarity information: IRATE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IRATE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Feeling or showing extreme anger

Synonyms:

irate; ireful

Context example:

ireful words

Similar:

angry (feeling or showing anger)

 Context examples 

This information seemed to have a mollifying effect, and the irate young man favored Martin with a measuring stare.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

"Did you expect a present, Miss Eyre? Are you fond of presents?" and he searched my face with eyes that I saw were dark, irate, and piercing.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He was a sneak and a thief, a mischief-maker, a fomenter of trouble; and irate squaws told him to his face, the while he eyed them alert and ready to dodge any quick-flung missile, that he was a wolf and worthless and bound to come to an evil end.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The kicker to this story was that the man who printed these fraudulent checks called me a few days later, irate that the bank pulled back my money, causing the bogus checks to bounce.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Thus, the pair of lovers could be jarred apart by misunderstood motives, by accident of fate, by jealous rivals, by irate parents, by crafty guardians, by scheming relatives, and so forth and so forth; they could be reunited by a brave deed of the man lover, by a similar deed of the woman lover, by change of heart in one lover or the other, by forced confession of crafty guardian, scheming relative, or jealous rival, by voluntary confession of same, by discovery of some unguessed secret, by lover storming girl's heart, by lover making long and noble self-sacrifice, and so on, endlessly.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)