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ireful

[ahyuhr-fuhl] / ˈaɪər fəl /
ADJECTIVE
furious
Synonyms
WEAK
bent bent out of shape beside oneself boiling browned off bummed out corybantic crazed demented desperate enraged fierce fit to be tied foaming at the mouth frantic frenetic frenzied fuming hacked hopping mad in a towering rage incensed infuriated insane irate irrational livid maddened maniac rabid rage raging smoking steamed unreasonable up in arms vehement vicious violent wrathful

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It makes me ireful to think o’ them.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

He did not give back a step before her ireful figure.

From Counsel for the Defense by Chapman, Charles M.

When her ireful mood had worn itself away, she got up with the stiffness of the mind's depression intensifying the body's chill, and made her way swiftly toward home.

From Country Neighbors by Brown, Alice

Cadmus' house they wail; With beating hands their tresses tear, and robes; And highly Juno blame, as one unjust: Too ireful for the hapless sister's fault.

From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by Howard, J. J.

She left the bower; and as he stept To and fro in ireful mood, A stranger from the chamber came, And close behind him stood.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 by Various