enraging
/ɛnɹˈeɪdʒɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.20 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Causing one to become enraged; infuriating.
Example Sentences
- "I know nothing more enraging than to be shown into a charming-looking room, with a beautiful great cupboard, and a gallant chest of drawers, that seem to promise us ample breathing-room for one's things , and to discover half the space we were so very gleefully looking forward to appropriating is already taken up by all sorts and conditions of household plenishing, or of last year's garments, or even the garments of the year before."
- "Most enraging to the peasants was the tax he forcibly levied on irrigation water from the Mansŏk-po reservoir ."
- "For many, Nkrumah's inability (or unwillingness) to address the challenges facing Ga communities represented a new, more enraging form of failure and government neglect, particularly given the power Ga residents had long leveraged in shaping the politics of Accra as both a town and colonial capital."
Inflected Forms
more enraging (comparative)
most enraging (superlative)