Word Meanings - IREFUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Full of ire; angry; wroth. "The ireful bastard Orleans." Shak. -- Ire"ful*ly, adv.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of IREFUL)

• Angry
• Wrathful
• irate
• resentful
• ireful
• incensed
• furious
• irascible
• choleric
• moody
• nettled
• touchy
• sullen
• piqued
• excited
• provoked
• raging
• chafed
• hasty
• hot
• exasperated
• indignant
• passionate

Related words: (words related to IREFUL)

• RAGULED; RAGGULED
  Notched in regular diagonal breaks; -- said of a line, or a bearing having such an edge.
• NETTLER
  One who nettles. Milton.
• RAGE
  1. Violent excitement; eager passion; extreme vehemence of desire, emotion, or suffering, mastering the will. "In great rage of pain." Bacon. He appeased the rage of hunger with some scraps of broken meat. Macaulay. Convulsed with a rage of grief.
• EXCITO-MOTION
  Motion excited by reflex nerves. See Excito-motory.
• RAGLAN
  A loose overcoat with large sleeves; -- named from Lord Raglan, an English general.
• INCENSIVE
  Tending to excite or provoke; inflammatory. Barrow.
• EXCITABLE
  Capable of being excited, or roused into action; susceptible of excitement; easily stirred up, or stimulated.
• CHAFFERY
  Traffic; bargaining. Spenser.
• EXCITING
  Calling or rousing into action; producing excitement; as, exciting events; an exciting story. -- Ex*cit"ing*ly, adv. Exciting causes , those which immediately produce disease, or those which excite the action of predisposing causes.
• RAGAMUFFIN
  The long-tailed titmouse. (more info) 1. A paltry or disreputable fellow; a mean which. Dryden. 2. A person who wears ragged clothing.
• EXCITATION
  The act of producing excitement ; also, the excitement produced. (more info) 1. The act of exciting or putting in motion; the act of rousing up or awakening. Bacon.
• EXCITABILITY
  The property manifested by living organisms, and the elements and tissues of which they are constituted, of responding to the action of stimulants; irritability; as, nervous excitability. (more info) 1. The quality of being readily excited;
• IREFULNESS
  Wrathfulness. Wyclif.
• RAGHUVANSA
  A celebrated Sanskrit poem having for its subject the Raghu dynasty.
• CHAFER
  1. One who chafes. 2. A vessel for heating water; -- hence, a dish or pan. A chafer of water to cool the ends of the irons. Baker.
• INCENSION
  The act of kindling, or the state of being kindled or on fire. Bacon.
• RAGIOUS
  Raging; furious; rageful. -- Ra"gious*ness, n.
• PIQUET
  See PICKET
• INCENSOR
  A kindler of anger or enmity; an inciter.
• EXCITATOR
  A kind of discarder.
• TETRAGYNIA
  A Linnæan order of plants having four styles.
• PHRAGMOCONE
  The thin chambered shell attached to the anterior end of a belemnite.
• MOORAGE
  A place for mooring.
• OUTRAGEOUS
  Of the nature of an outrage; exceeding the limits of right, reason, or decency; involving or doing an outrage; furious; violent; atrocious. "Outrageous weeping." Chaucer. "The most outrageous villainies." Sir P. Sidney. "The vile, outrageous
• COMPASSIONATELY
  In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon.
• CORAL-RAG
  See CORALLIAN
• INTERAGENT
  An intermediate agent.
• VORAGINOUS
  Pertaining to a gulf; full of gulfs; hence, devouring. Mallet.
• ACCOURAGE
  To encourage.
• ALTARAGE
  1. The offerings made upon the altar, or to a church. 2. The profit which accrues to the priest, by reason of the altar, from the small tithes. Shipley.
• PARAGRAPH
  1. Originally, a marginal mark or note, set in the margin to call attention to something in the text, e. g., a change of subject; now, the character Note: This character is merely a modification of a capital P (the initial of the word paragraph),
• DRAG LINE; DRAG ROPE
  A guide rope.
• DISCOURAGING
  Causing or indicating discouragement. -- Dis*cour"a*ging*ly, adv.
• PENDRAGON
  A chief leader or a king; a head; a dictator; -- a title assumed by the ancient British chiefs when called to lead other chiefs. The dread Pendragon, Britain's king of kings. Tennyson.
• VIRAGINITY
  The qualities or characteristics of a virago.
• PARAGRAPHER
  A writer of paragraphs; a paragraphist.