irate
adjective /aɪˈreɪt/
/aɪˈreɪt/, /ˈaɪreɪt/
- very angry
极其愤怒的;暴怒的 - irate customers
愤怒的顾客 - an irate phone call
怒气冲冲的电话 - She sounded extremely irate.
她听起来非常生气。
Synonyms angryangryTopics Feelingsc2- mad
- indignant
- cross
- irate
- angry feeling or showing anger:
- Please don’t be angry with me.
请别生我的气。 - Thousands of angry demonstrators filled the square.
广场上聚满了成千上万的愤怒示威者。
- Please don’t be angry with me.
- mad [not before noun] (informal, especially North American English) angry:
- He got mad and walked out.
他大动肝火,愤然离去。 - She’s mad at me for being late.
我迟到了,她非常生气。
- He got mad and walked out.
- 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.
她对自己受到的待遇大为光火。
- She was very indignant at the way she had been treated.
- cross (especially British English, rather informal) rather angry or annoyed:
- I was quite cross with him for being late.
我因他迟到而十分生气。
- I was quite cross with him for being late.
- irate very angry:
- irate customers
愤怒的顾客 - an irate letter
言辞激愤的信
- irate customers
- 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
Collocations DictionaryIrate is used with these nouns:- customer
词源mid 19th cent.: from Latin iratus, from ira ‘anger’. - irate customers