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infuriating

[ in-fyoor-ee-ey-ting ]

adjective

  1. causing or tending to cause anger or outrage; maddening:

    His delay is infuriating.



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Other Words From

  • in·furi·ating·ly adverb

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Word History and Origins

Origin of infuriating1

First recorded in 1880–85; infuriat(e) + -ing 2

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Example Sentences

Their reward: what is possibly the most infuriating series finale of the new millennium.

Those crazy nominations were always infuriating, but also a little fun.

She is a marvelously complicated, funny, infuriating, and in some ways deeply admirable character.

No matter how infuriating this is, it is neither a unique case nor a new phenomenon.

Watching this incompetence is infuriating, and the view security cameras show from inside the mall is horrific.

It is, you may be interested to hear, a dreary and infuriating business.

He stopped short, drawing himself up and preening in the way that was half infuriating and half pathetic.

Prices rose and rose—with an infuriating effect upon the wage-earner.

The shop steward was a goad, annoying, perhaps even infuriating, but tolerable.

The Japanese are perfectly infuriating to one with a definite object and precious time.

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