ire
/ˈʌɪə
/noun [mass noun]
Anger: the plans provoked the ire of conservationists...
- It's his behaviour that makes me bristle with ire and irritation.
- Jaspers's emphasis on the importance of form over the content of psychopathology provokes the authors' ire.
- Exercising their ire at the moment is the police, with their aggressive attitude towards gun use.
Synonyms
anger, rage, fury, wrath, hot temper, outrage, temper, crossness, spleen;
annoyance, exasperation, irritation, vexation, displeasure, chagrin, pique;
indignation, resentment
literary choler
Derivatives
ireful
/ adjective ...- Mr. Rochester was a princely and heroic master, and, despite his ireful frown and brusque, moody manner, Jane felt at ease in his presence.
- Yet another ireful king, Cyrus of Persia, destroyed the river Gyndes because one of his horses drowned in it.
- Their ambivalent ireful mood is a manifestation of the ouroboric primal affect, self-envy.
Origin
Middle English: via Old French from Latin ira.
Rhymes
- spaceband
- space bar
- space blanket
- space-borne
- space-bound
- space cabin
- space cadet
- space cake
- space capsule
- space chamber
- space charge
- bring someone out
- bring someone round (or around)
- bring someone/thing down
- bring someone/thing into line
- bring someone/thing to bay
- bring someone/thing to mind
- bring someone/thing to their/its knees
- bring someone to book
- bring someone to heel
- bring someone to justice
- bring someone to their (or come to one's) senses
- bring someone up
- bring something about
- bring something back