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say it: rahyld
riled is an adjective meaning "aroused to impatience or anger". It carries one recorded sense.
aroused to impatience or anger
“made an irritated gesture”
“feeling nettled from the constant teasing”
“peeved about being left out”
“felt really pissed at her snootiness”
“riled no end by his lies”
“roiled by the delay”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for riled come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.