ire

[ahyuh r] /aɪər/
noun
1.
intense anger; wrath.
Origin
1250-1300; Middle English < Old French < Latin īra anger
Related forms
ireless, adjective
Synonyms
fury, rage, choler, spleen.

Ire.

1.
Ireland.
Examples from the web for ire
  • The threat of pulling such a well-known and widely used therapy has sparked ire of many patients and advocates.
  • His belief in a possible link between intelligence and race and gender has long provoked the ire of myriad critics.
  • F acing environmentalists' ire, fast-food franchises switched from polystyrene burger boxes to cardboard several years back.
  • So the real test will be how the particle physics community responds, whether with spittle-flecked ire or reasoned argument.
  • That's actually true, but not because no politician dares risk the ire of the shadow government that controls the saucer fleet.
  • But according to someone at the dinner party, she was directing her ire at her brother's handling of the crisis.
  • It also, as you know, got up the ire of some of my colleagues.
  • Up until now, the premier did not want to face voter ire if possible.
  • He was famous for his ability to manipulate tribal rivalries to direct popular ire away from his office.
  • Users whose listings are flagged off the site get no hint as to what they may have done to attract ire.
British Dictionary definitions for ire

ire

/aɪə/
noun
1.
(literary) anger; wrath
Derived Forms
ireful, adjective
irefully, adverb
irefulness, noun
ireless, adjective
Word Origin
C13: from Old French, from Latin īra

Ire.

abbreviation
1.
Ireland
Word Origin and History for ire
n.

c.1300, from Old French ire "anger, wrath, violence" (11c.), from Latin ira "anger, wrath, rage, passion," from PIE root *eis-, forming various words denoting "passion" cf. Greek hieros "filled with the divine, holy," oistros "gadfly," originally "thing causing madness;" Sanskrit esati "drives on," yasati "boils;" Avestan aesma "anger").

Old English irre in a similar sense is from an adjective irre "wandering, straying, angry," cognate with Old Saxon irri "angry," Old High German irri "wandering, deranged," also "angry;" Gothic airzeis "astray," and Latin errare "wander, go astray, angry" (see err (v.)).

Related Abbreviations for ire

Ire.

Ireland