infuriating

adjective

in·​fu·​ri·​at·​ing in-ˈfyu̇r-ē-ˌā-tiŋ How to pronounce infuriating (audio)
: causing feelings of extreme anger
an infuriating delay
infuriating arrogance
Oakes was entitled to a certain amount of gloating, but there could be no doubt that his way of telling a story was downright infuriating.P. G. Wodehouse
Always provocative, sometimes infuriating, this collection reminds us that the purpose of art is not to confirm and coddle but to provoke and confront.Jill Nelson
"I'm not obliged to love you," he says, his eyes glittering coldly with an infuriating lack of passion.Lisa Schwarzbaum
He has an infuriating (and admirable) disregard for what people think of him.Cynthia Crossen
infuriatingly adverb
an infuriatingly slow process
A true college town can be infuriatingly insular. Peter Fish

Examples of infuriating in a Sentence

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Spotify For some of us, few things are more infuriating than a gadget that stops working due to a software change. Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 5 Sep. 2024 Her perhaps most infuriating trait, as with so many moms, is her constant need to always be right. Marianne Eloise, Vulture, 11 May 2024 Entrenched business and political leaders, for whom journalism has often been an infuriating nuisance, cannot be counted on to save it, especially not in large cities, which is where newspapers are in the most trouble. Peter Osnos, Foreign Affairs, 1 Jan. 2010 This façade of Instagram being the cool new way for teens to chat is more infuriating than Nick’s not getting his boyfriend a one-month-anniversary present. Bella Arnold, Vulture, 8 Aug. 2023 Fortunately, no Tesla owners showed up for an infuriating glimpse of these early days of share-and-share-alike. IEEE Spectrum, 2 Aug. 2023 One of the most infuriating problems is that insurance companies are widely ignoring federal law. Maria Aspan, Fortune, 28 June 2023 The most infuriating part of watching Holmes be treated with the dignity Black folks rarely receive was watching Neely be vilified on the same timeline, knowing that there are no second chances for the countless Black people judged on sight as abnormal. Kathleen Newman-Bremang, refinery29.com, 26 May 2023 The most infuriating — and scariest — thing about the beatdown of Nichols is how rote the brutality seems. Paul Butler, Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2023

Word History

First Known Use

1702, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of infuriating was in 1702

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“Infuriating.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/infuriating. Accessed 8 Dec. 2024.

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