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Irritated vs Infuriate - What's the difference?

irritated | infuriate |

As verbs the difference between irritated and infuriate

is that irritated is (irritate) while infuriate is to make furious or mad with anger; to enrage.

As adjectives the difference between irritated and infuriate

is that irritated is experiencing a feeling of irritation while infuriate is enraged, furious.

irritated

English

Verb

(head)
  • (irritate)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Experiencing a feeling of irritation.
  • (pathology) Inflamed and painful.

    • Synonyms

    * (experiencing a feeling of irritation) (l)

    infuriate

    English

    Verb

    (infuriat)
  • To make furious or mad with anger; to enrage

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • 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.
    • (Milton)
  • * Thomson
    • Inflamed beyond the most infuriate wrath.
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