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Irate vs Angry - What's the difference?

irate | angry |

Angry is a synonym of irate.



As adjectives the difference between irate and angry

is that irate is extremely angry; wrathful; enraged while angry is displaying or feeling anger.

irate

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Extremely angry; wrathful; enraged.

    • Synonyms

    * furious * infuriated * sore * See also

    Related terms

    * irascible * irately * irateness * ire

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    angry

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Displaying or feeling anger.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , passage=Then we relapsed into a discomfited silence, and wished we were anywhere else. But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud, and with such a hearty enjoyment that instead of getting angry and more mortified we began to laugh ourselves, and instantly felt better.}}
  • (said about a wound or a rash) Inflamed and painful.
    • The broken glass left two angry cuts across my arm.
  • Dark and stormy, menacing.
    • Angry clouds raced across the sky.
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    Synonyms

    * (displaying anger) mad, enraged, wrathful, furious, apoplectic; irritated, annoyed, vexed, pissed off, cheesed off, worked up, psyched up * See also

    Derived terms

    * angrily * angriness * Angry Young Man

    See also

    * (Anger)

    Anagrams

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