different between impassioned vs irate

English

Alternative forms

• empassioned [16th-18th c.]

Etymology

From impassion +? -ed.

Adjective

impassioned (comparative more impassioned, superlative most impassioned)

1. Filled with intense emotion or passion; fervent.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.9:

     She was empassioned at that piteous act, / With zealous envy of the Greekes cruell fact / Against that nation […]

   • 1839, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby, VI:

     The tears fell fast from the maiden's eyes as she closed her impassioned appeal, and hid her face in the bosom of her sister.

Translations

English

Etymology

From Latin ?r?tus (“angered, angry”), from irasci (“to be angry”), from ira (“anger, wrath”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a???e?t/, /?a??e?t/
• Rhymes: -e?t

Adjective

irate (comparative irater, superlative iratest)

1. Extremely angry; wrathful; enraged.

   Synonyms: furious, infuriated, sore; see also Thesaurus:angry

Related terms

Translations

References

• irate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• irate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• irate at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Artie, Tiare, raite, retia, terai

Italian

Adjective

irate f pl

1. feminine plural of irato

Anagrams

• ratei, reati, reità, tiare

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /i??ra?.te/, [i???ä?t??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /i?ra.te/, [i????t??]

Adjective

?r?te

1. vocative masculine singular of ?r?tus

References

• irate in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press