INFURIATING Synonyms: 107 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

Definition of infuriating

as in enraging

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verb

present participle of infuriate

as in angering

to make angry the quarterback's stupid mistake infuriated the coach

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Recent Examples of infuriating

Adjective

This is an infuriating bait-and-switch case compounded by a gross disregard for public health and safety. — Christopher Elliott, Mercury News, 6 July 2026 Bannon may be the first person to perceive it as the frequency of all suffering, something inescapable and infuriating. — Alex Robert Ross, Pitchfork, 24 June 2026

Verb

Several public employers are infuriating workers by ending coverage for GLP-1 drugs for weight loss. — Bob Herman, STAT, 18 Aug. 2026 Georgia prosecutors have charged Deja Coleman, his mother, with second-degree murder, infuriating child safety advocates who say that hot car deaths are nearly always accidental and tragic. — Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 15 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for infuriating

Recent Examples of Synonyms for infuriating

Adjective

Antibiotic overuse remains common for other conditions of later life, too, including the kind of urinary tract infections that cause no troublesome symptoms and upper respiratory infections that are typically viral, not bacterial.

— Paula Span, Miami Herald, 17 Sep. 2026
In Bad Apples, Maria ends up accidentally taking and locking her troublesome student, Danny, in her home following a series of questionable decisions and a desperate moment.

— Rebecca Aizin, PEOPLE, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of troublesome

Verb

North Carolina and Bill Belichick got zero, no doubt enraging girlfriend Jordon Hudson.

— Greg Cote August 2, Miami Herald, 2 Aug. 2026
Before the agreement was announced, Israeli forces struck in Beirut, enraging Trump, who has publicly expressed his fury with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

— Tal Shalev, CNN Money, 15 June 2026

Definition of enraging

Adjective

For general appreciators, the series’ excesses and redundancies are likely to be frustrating, as are its frequent lack of focus and general sense of over-sanitization.

— Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 17 Sep. 2026
Indeed, Infiniti’s wide-eyed portrait of a prodigy is equal parts inspired and frustrating.

— Matt Donnelly, Variety, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of frustrating

Verb

Rebecca regrets angering Matthijs (Matteo van der Grijn) after putting his daughter in the middle of a heated discussion around the possibility of Matthijs moving to London.

— Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 9 Sep. 2026
Two go-their-own-way Democrats bucked the party on a routine procedural vote, angering colleagues and raising a red flag about potential party divisions to come.

— Lisa Mascaro, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of angering

Adjective

Repeatedly taking your shoes off and on is time-consuming and exasperating.

— R. Eric Thomas, Mercury News, 22 Aug. 2026
So much for the rational part of an exasperating season that marked the first time since 2014 that the Chiefs failed to make the playoffs.

— Vahe Gregorian July 31, Kansas City Star, 31 July 2026

Definition of exasperating

Verb

Kids in all three countries loved learning dances from TikTok and annoying their siblings.

— Ryan Lenora Brown, Christian Science Monitor, 12 Aug. 2026
Of course, this would depend on whether the managers choose to pick their strongest teams in what for some is a meaningless, even annoying extra fixture, for squads who just want to go home.

— Eduardo Tansley, New York Times, 18 July 2026

Definition of annoying

Adjective

This whole maddening episode is the perfect convergence of every possible form of college football dysfunction.

— Stewart Mandel, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
Read more about the maddening limbo some patients have found themselves in while trying to get the first major pancreatic cancer breakthrough in decades.

— Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of maddening

Verb

The textured surface made whisking things like custard or béchamel irritating as the whisk repeatedly snagged on the textured surface.

— Wilder Davies, Bon Appetit Magazine, 17 Sep. 2026
Customers no longer receive generic, irritating blasts, instead experiencing highly contextual, proactive and genuinely helpful brand interactions that adapt to their real-time needs.

— Pratik Bhadra, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2026

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