irate

adjective

/aɪˈreɪt/

/aɪˈreɪt/, /ˈaɪreɪt/

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very angry極其憤怒的；暴怒的
- irate customers憤怒的顧客
- an irate phone call怒氣沖沖的電話
- She sounded extremely irate.她聽起來非常生氣。
Synonyms angry
angry
- mad
- indignant
- cross
- irate
These words all describe people feeling and/or showing anger.
- angry feeling or showing anger:
  Please don’t be angry with me.請别生我的氣。
  Thousands of angry demonstrators filled the square.廣場上聚滿了成千上萬的憤怒示威者。
- mad [not before noun] (informal, especially North American English) angry:
  He got mad and walked out.他大動肝火，憤然離去。
  She’s mad at me for being late.我遲到了，她非常生氣。
  Mad is the usual word for ‘angry’ in informal American English. In British English, the phrase ‘go mad’ means ‘become very angry’: Dad’ll go mad when he sees what you’ve done. ‘Go mad’ can also mean ‘go crazy’ or ‘get very excited’.
- indignant feeling or showing anger and surprise because you think that you or somebody else has been treated unfairly:
  She was very indignant at the way she had been treated.她對自己受到的待遇大爲光火。
- cross (especially British English, rather informal) rather angry or annoyed:
  I was quite cross with him for being late.我因他遲到而十分生氣。
  This word is often used by or to children.
- irate very angry:
  irate customers憤怒的顧客
  an irate letter言辭激憤的信
  Irate is not usually followed by a preposition: She was irate with me/about it.
Patterns
- angry/mad/indignant/cross about/at something
- angry/cross with somebody (for doing something)
- angry/mad/indignant/cross that …
- to get angry/mad/cross
- to make somebody angry/mad/cross
Topics Feelingsc2
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
Irate is used with these nouns:
customer
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Word Originmid 19th cent.: from Latin iratus, from ira ‘anger’.

BNC: 18773 COCA: 16784

irate adj.
⇨ angry

BNC: 18773 COCA: 16784

irate

Feeling very or extremely angry: furious, irate, seething...

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