Difference between Irate and Angry

IRATE vs ANGRY: ADJECTIVE

Having a menacing aspect; threatening.
Feeling or showing anger; incensed or enraged.
Severely inflamed and painful
(of the elements) as if showing violent anger
Feeling or showing anger
Indicative of or resulting from anger.
Inflamed and painful.
Troublesome; vexatious; rigorous.
Inflamed and painful, as a sore.
Touched with anger; under the emotion of anger; feeling resentment; enraged; -- followed generally by with before a person, and at before a thing.
Showing anger; proceeding from anger; acting as if moved by anger; wearing the marks of anger
Red.
Sharp; keen; stimulated.
Displaying or feeling anger.
Dark and stormy, menacing.

Causing grief or trouble; troublesome; vexatious; trying.
Feeling grief or trouble; grieved; troubled; vexed.
Feeling or showing anger or resentment (with or at a person, at or about a thing): said of persons.
Characterized by or manifesting anger; wrathful: as, an angry look or mood; angry words; an angry reply.
Bearing the marks of anger; having the appearance of being in anger; frowning; fierce: as, an angry countenance; angry billows.
Having the color of the face of one who is in anger; red.
= Syn. 3, 4, 5. Indignant, incensed, passionate, resentful, irritated, wrathful, irate, hot, raging, furious, stormy, choleric, inflamed, tumultuous.
In medicine, inflamed, as a sore; exhibiting inflammation.
Sharp; keen; vigorous.

Heated, Wrathful, Seething, Mad, Upset, Pissed, Outraged, Furious, Fuming, Irritated, Livid, Incensed, Enraged, Ireful, Angry

Irascible, Wrathful, Maddened, Provoked, Huffy, Mad, Angered, Infuriated, Outraged, Livid, Furious, Incensed, Indignant, Enraged, Irate

Heated, Wrathful, Seething, Mad, Upset, Pissed, Outraged, Furious, Fuming, Irritated, Livid, Incensed, Enraged, Ireful, Angry

Irascible, Wrathful, Maddened, Provoked, Huffy, Mad, Angered, Infuriated, Outraged, Livid, Furious, Incensed, Indignant, Enraged, Irate

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At the very least, Craig Smith was irate.
Hendrick got off by paying the irate Dr.
The next day an irate husband challenges them.
Ernie somehow kept the irate deliverymen at bay.
To be perfectly honest, I was pretty irate.
Role play scenarios dealing with an irate customer?
Delay that bus, and the riders get irate.
An irate person will only commit irate actions, and sometimes you may say things that you regret later.
To which I respnded with irate sadness and irate confusion How dare she place God where they need not be?

In this sense, angry exchange helps in most cases to move the plot forward because angry emotion provides important drive for selfexpression and action.
Do you believe that, as the president has said, Mueller is an angry Democrat leading other angry Democrats in a witch hunt?
Visions of angry saints and an angry Christ tormented him; he believed he was damned to HELL.
You sound extremely angry and angry people do not make wise decisions nor say wise things.
When someone is angry and complains, it is easy to become angry yourself.
LIWC angry words were moderately positively correlated with angry language, as expected.
When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred.
Godly people are angry when God is angry.
Bartleby is also angry, angry at being deprived.
Ibrahim would say to them: Verily, my Lord is today angry as He had never been angry before and would never be angry afterwards.