dict_dl/en_MerriamWebster/ire_MW.json

{
  "ire":{
    "antonyms":[
      "delight",
      "pleasure"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": intense and usually openly displayed anger":[],
      "Ireland":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Noun",
      "He directed his ire at the coworkers who reported the incident.",
      "the patronizing comment from the snooty waiter roused her ire",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "The release of the final chapter of the report has been delayed as it was initially set to be handed over to Ramaphosa and released to the public last week, raising the ire of main opposition party Democratic Alliance. \u2014 Mogomotsi Magome, ajc , 22 June 2022",
      "Nostalgia for Soviet times stirs the ire of local right-wing nationalists such as Vasyl Vovkunovich, once a political ally of Hungarian nationalists in the final days of the Soviet Union. \u2014 New York Times , 16 June 2022",
      "Maines famously told a London crowd in 2003 the band did not support the U.S. invasion of Iraq and was ashamed then-President George W. Bush was from Texas, triggering the ire of the country music genre's more conservative artists and fans. \u2014 Rory Appleton, The Indianapolis Star , 14 June 2022",
      "The trailer, owned by Houston resident Dr. Ramesh Kapur, had sat at the busy intersection since May 2021, garnering citations and the ire of local residents for its state of disrepair in a prominent location. \u2014 Dan Carson, Chron , 7 June 2022",
      "Those blue-state policies earned the ire of the Trump administration. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 2 June 2022",
      "Those blue-state policies earned the ire of the Trump administration. \u2014 Dino Grandoni, Anchorage Daily News , 2 June 2022",
      "But that approach has also earned him the ire of some Second Amendment advocates, some of whom ran ads against him during his 2014 primary. \u2014 Michael Scherer, Washington Post , 28 May 2022",
      "Chief executives at some of the largest companies by revenue have been awarded a median $20 million in total compensation, according to a mid-April report by Equilar, and some earned far more\u2014often to the ire of their investors. \u2014 Maria Aspan, Fortune , 27 May 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "14th century, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin ira ; perhaps akin to Greek oistros gadfly, frenzy":"Noun"
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8\u012br",
      "\u02c8\u012b(-\u0259)r"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for ire Noun anger , ire , rage , fury , indignation , wrath mean an intense emotional state induced by displeasure. anger , the most general term, names the reaction but by itself does not convey cause or intensity. tried to hide his anger ire , more frequent in literary contexts, suggests an intense anger, often with an evident display of feeling. cheeks flushed with ire rage and fury suggest loss of self-control from violence of emotion. shook with rage could not contain his fury indignation stresses righteous anger at what one considers unfair, mean, or shameful. a comment that caused general indignation wrath is likely to suggest a desire or intent to punish or get revenge. I feared her wrath if I was discovered",
    "synonyms":[
      "anger",
      "angriness",
      "birse",
      "choler",
      "furor",
      "fury",
      "indignation",
      "irateness",
      "lividity",
      "lividness",
      "mad",
      "madness",
      "mood",
      "outrage",
      "rage",
      "spleen",
      "wrath",
      "wrathfulness"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-063028",
    "type":[
      "abbreviation",
      "adjective",
      "noun",
      "transitive verb"
    ]
  },
  "ireful":{
    "antonyms":[
      "delight",
      "pleasure"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": intense and usually openly displayed anger":[],
      "Ireland":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Noun",
      "He directed his ire at the coworkers who reported the incident.",
      "the patronizing comment from the snooty waiter roused her ire",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "The release of the final chapter of the report has been delayed as it was initially set to be handed over to Ramaphosa and released to the public last week, raising the ire of main opposition party Democratic Alliance. \u2014 Mogomotsi Magome, ajc , 22 June 2022",
      "Nostalgia for Soviet times stirs the ire of local right-wing nationalists such as Vasyl Vovkunovich, once a political ally of Hungarian nationalists in the final days of the Soviet Union. \u2014 New York Times , 16 June 2022",
      "Maines famously told a London crowd in 2003 the band did not support the U.S. invasion of Iraq and was ashamed then-President George W. Bush was from Texas, triggering the ire of the country music genre's more conservative artists and fans. \u2014 Rory Appleton, The Indianapolis Star , 14 June 2022",
      "The trailer, owned by Houston resident Dr. Ramesh Kapur, had sat at the busy intersection since May 2021, garnering citations and the ire of local residents for its state of disrepair in a prominent location. \u2014 Dan Carson, Chron , 7 June 2022",
      "Those blue-state policies earned the ire of the Trump administration. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 2 June 2022",
      "Those blue-state policies earned the ire of the Trump administration. \u2014 Dino Grandoni, Anchorage Daily News , 2 June 2022",
      "But that approach has also earned him the ire of some Second Amendment advocates, some of whom ran ads against him during his 2014 primary. \u2014 Michael Scherer, Washington Post , 28 May 2022",
      "Chief executives at some of the largest companies by revenue have been awarded a median $20 million in total compensation, according to a mid-April report by Equilar, and some earned far more\u2014often to the ire of their investors. \u2014 Maria Aspan, Fortune , 27 May 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "14th century, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin ira ; perhaps akin to Greek oistros gadfly, frenzy":"Noun"
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8\u012br",
      "\u02c8\u012b(-\u0259)r"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for ire Noun anger , ire , rage , fury , indignation , wrath mean an intense emotional state induced by displeasure. anger , the most general term, names the reaction but by itself does not convey cause or intensity. tried to hide his anger ire , more frequent in literary contexts, suggests an intense anger, often with an evident display of feeling. cheeks flushed with ire rage and fury suggest loss of self-control from violence of emotion. shook with rage could not contain his fury indignation stresses righteous anger at what one considers unfair, mean, or shameful. a comment that caused general indignation wrath is likely to suggest a desire or intent to punish or get revenge. I feared her wrath if I was discovered",
    "synonyms":[
      "anger",
      "angriness",
      "birse",
      "choler",
      "furor",
      "fury",
      "indignation",
      "irateness",
      "lividity",
      "lividness",
      "mad",
      "madness",
      "mood",
      "outrage",
      "rage",
      "spleen",
      "wrath",
      "wrathfulness"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-233632",
    "type":[
      "abbreviation",
      "adjective",
      "noun",
      "transitive verb"
    ]
  },
  "Ireton":{
    "type":[
      "biographical name"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      "Henry 1611\u20131651 English soldier and politician":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8\u012b(-\u0259)r-t\u1d4an"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-182336"
  }
}