irate Definition
irate (ī rāt′, ī′rāt′)
irate Related Forms
irate′·ly adverb
irate′·ness noun
irate Synonyms
irate Usage Examples
Adjective complement with noun phrase
- make: He took a sudden right turn, Which made the choir irate.
- get: Sorry about that, but I get so f****** irate sometimes.
Modifies a noun
- motorist: An irate motorist who's car has been clamped can become abusive or at the very worst violent.
- fan: In 2000, the CBBC message board was flooded with irate fans wanting to know why Zoe's departure was not explained on screen.
- citizen: You can also its irate citizens take their claims.
- passenger: I had irate passengers waiting for over an hour for their luggage.
- farmer: Sam'l Mann himself flushed proudly over the effect his show once had on an irate farmer.
- customer: Below are a few guidelines to help you develop your own personal strategy for dealing with irate customers.
Modifying Another Word
- rather: Unfortunately, on the first night at T1 speeds, I got a rather irate phone call from my up stream provider.
- very: The Devil could not get out and was very irate!
- so: It makes me so irate to hear people talk about the bonding you get during nursing.
- increasingly: And then the auction house might not send you anything despite, in our case, several increasingly irate phone calls.
- quite: If a sperm is wasted, God gets quite irate.
- particularly: And if the customer is particularly irate you can get on with something else while they rant.
Used with adjective complement
- get: Are you getting irate with other people over apparently trivial matters?
- become: Discussions continued with people becoming very irate this lead to comments being personally directed at a Community Councilor.
- sound: You sound irate, but surely the tale illustrates how... How well loved I am in Ireland, aye.

