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i⋅rate

  [ahy-reyt, ahy-reyt]
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–adjective
1. angry; enraged: an irate customer.
2. arising from or characterized by anger: an irate letter to the editor.
Origin:
1830–40; < L īrātus ptp. of īrāscī to be angry, get angry; see irascible, -ate 1

Related forms:
i⋅rate⋅ly, adverb
i⋅rate⋅ness, noun

Synonyms:
1. furious, irritated, provoked.

Antonyms:
1. calm.
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i·rate   (ī-rāt', ī'rāt')   
adj.  
  1. Extremely angry; enraged. See Synonyms at angry.
  2. Characterized or occasioned by anger: an irate phone call.

[Latin īrātus, past participle of īrāscī, to be angry, from īra, anger; see eis- in Indo-European roots.]
i·rate'ly adv., i·rate'ness n.
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Irate

I*rate"\, a. [L. iratus, fr. irasci to be angry. See Ire.] Angry; incensed; enraged. [Recent]

The irate colonel . . . stood speechless. --Thackeray.

Mr. Jaggers suddenly became most irate. --Dickens.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : irate
Spanish: furioso,
German: zornig,
Japanese: 怒った
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irate 
1838, from L. iratus "angry, enraged, violent, furious," pp. of irasci "grow angry," from ira "anger" (see ire).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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