ireful

1. 1.

   feeling or showing extreme anger

   “irate protesters”

   “ireful words”

   Synonymsirate

   Similarangry

Questions about ireful

What does ireful mean?

ireful means "feeling or showing extreme anger".

How many syllables are in ireful?

ireful has 3 syllables: i-re-ful. The stress falls on "i".

What is another word for ireful?

Close synonyms include irate. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ireful a common word?

ireful is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.