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IREFUL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does ireful mean?
• IREFUL (adjective)
The adjective IREFUL has 1 sense:
1. feeling or showing extreme anger
Familiarity information: IREFUL used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Feeling or showing extreme anger
Synonyms:
irate; ireful
Context example:
ireful words
Similar:
angry (feeling or showing anger)
Context examples
It makes me ireful to think o' them.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
He had a dark face, with stern features and a heavy brow; his eyes and gathered eyebrows looked ireful and thwarted just now; he was past youth, but had not reached middle-age; perhaps he might be thirty-five.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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