it's infuriating
it's very irritating
TRANSLATION
infuriating = äußerst ärgerlich to infuriate = jmd. zur Weißglut bringen, rasend machen --- GOOGLE INDEX infuriating: approximately 1,000,000 Google hits
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The INFURIATING ring of someone else's mobile phone ruins many visits to the cinema or theatre.
(BBC)
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We spend a fortune each year on clearing rubbish from our streets and it INFURIATES residents when they see sofas and mattress dumped on the pavement.
(The Guardian)
(BBC)
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We spend a fortune each year on clearing rubbish from our streets and it INFURIATES residents when they see sofas and mattress dumped on the pavement.
(The Guardian)
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infuriating
adjective
- making one extremely angry and impatient
(Compact Oxford English Dictionary)
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Who's mad at who?
The popular composer Jacques Francois Halevy was once infuriated to discover that an organ-grinder had stationed himself outside his home - and was playing tunes from Rossini's Barber of Seville.
At last, Halevy went outside and confronted the man. "I will give you one louis d'or," he offered, "if you will go around to Rossini's house and play one of my tunes beneath his window."
The organ-grinder smiled. "But, monsieur," he replied. "M. Rossini has paid me two louis to play his music beneath yours!"
Etymology: from the Italian infuriato, from the Middle Latin infuriatus, the past participle of infuriare "to madden," from the Latine in furia "in a fury".
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SYNONYMS
annoying, aggravating, exasperating, irritating, maddening
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"It infuriates me when passengers use mobile phones in trains!"
adjective
- making one extremely angry and impatient
(Compact Oxford English Dictionary)
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Who's mad at who?
The popular composer Jacques Francois Halevy was once infuriated to discover that an organ-grinder had stationed himself outside his home - and was playing tunes from Rossini's Barber of Seville.
At last, Halevy went outside and confronted the man. "I will give you one louis d'or," he offered, "if you will go around to Rossini's house and play one of my tunes beneath his window."
The organ-grinder smiled. "But, monsieur," he replied. "M. Rossini has paid me two louis to play his music beneath yours!"
Etymology: from the Italian infuriato, from the Middle Latin infuriatus, the past participle of infuriare "to madden," from the Latine in furia "in a fury".
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SYNONYMS
annoying, aggravating, exasperating, irritating, maddening
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"It infuriates me when passengers use mobile phones in trains!"
