noun
intense anger; wrath.
Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English < Old French < Latin īra anger
1250–1300; Middle English < Old French < Latin īra anger
Related forms
ire·less, adjective
Synonyms
fury, rage, choler, spleen.
fury, rage, choler, spleen.
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Ire.
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ire (aɪə) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| literary anger; wrath | |
| [C13: from Old French, from Latin īra] | |
| 'ireful | |
| —adj | |
| 'irefully | |
| —adv | |
| 'irefulness | |
| —n | |
| 'ireless | |
| —adj | |
| Ire. | |
| —abbreviation for | |
| Ireland | |
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Word Origin & History
ire
c.1300, from O.Fr. ire (11c.), from L. ira "anger, wrath, rage," from PIE base *eis-, forming various words denoting "passion" cf. Gk. hieros "filled with the divine, holy," oistros "gadfly," originally "thing causing madness;" Skt. esati "drives on," yasati "boils;" Avestan aesma "anger").
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American Heritage
Abbreviations & Acronyms
| Ire. Ireland |
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Example sentences
It also, as you know, got up the ire of some of my colleagues.
But diesel also emits more carcinogenic particles, earning the ire of campaigners for cleaner urban air.
The plan failed on both counts-but ignited riots among students and ire among parents and lecturers.
So the real test will be how the particle physics community responds, whether with spittle-flecked ire or reasoned argument.
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