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Irritate vs Furious - What's the difference?

irritate | furious |

As a verb irritate

is (lb) to provoke impatience, anger, or displeasure.

As an adjective furious is

transported with passion or fury; raging; violent.

irritate

English

Verb

(irritat)
  • (lb) To provoke impatience, anger, or displeasure.
  • *
  • *:Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.
  • (lb) To introduce irritability or irritation in.
  • (lb) To cause or induce displeasure or irritation.
  • (lb) To induce pain in (all or part of a body or organism).
  • (lb) To render null and void.
  • :(Archbishop Bramhall)

    • Synonyms

    * provoke * rile

    Antonyms

    * please

    Related terms

    * irritation * irritative * irritatory

    See also

    * exasperate * peeve * disturb English intransitive verbs English transitive verbs ----

    furious

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Transported with passion or fury; raging; violent.
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    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part. Thus outraged, she showed herself to be a bold as well as a furious virago. Next day she found her way to their lodgings and tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head.}}
  • Rushing with impetuosity; moving with violence.

    • Derived terms

    * fast and furious * furiousness