Infuriate vs Angry - What's the difference?
infuriate | angry |
To make furious or mad with anger; to enrage
Enraged, furious.
* 1929 , (Frederic Manning), The Middle Parts of Fortune , Vintage 2014, p. 336:
*:‘A'll not leave thee,’ said Weeper in an infuriate rage.
* Thomson
Displaying or feeling anger.
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(said about a wound or a rash) Inflamed and painful.
Dark and stormy, menacing.
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As adjectives the difference between infuriate and angry
is that infuriate is enraged, furious while angry is displaying or feeling anger.As a verb infuriate
is to make furious or mad with anger; to enrage.infuriate
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Verb
(infuriat)Synonyms
* See alsoAdjective
(en adjective)- (Milton)
- Inflamed beyond the most infuriate wrath.
angry
English
Adjective
(er)- The broken glass left two angry cuts across my arm.
- Angry clouds raced across the sky.
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