iracund
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Characterized by anger; caused by anger; wrathful
Example Sentences
- "Dryasdust knows only that these Preussen were a strong-boned, iracund herdsman-and-fisher people; highly averse to be interfered with, in their religion especially."
- "And the 'steal Injun hoss!' iterated and reiterated by a dozen voices, and always with the most iracund emphasis, enabled Roland to form a proper conception of the sense in which his enemies held that offence, as well as of the great merits and wide-spread fame of his new ally, whose voice gad thrown the red-men into such a ferment."
- "She thought the man in the ticket booth looked charmingly rotund and friendly (in reality he was a lazy, iracund man), the light rain flowed down drainpipes and dripped off the roof like the water of a baptism, where all, and not just the baby, were blessed by God."
- "Nor does he [Dante] extract any other example of iracund murder or harm from the hundreds of cases available to him from Ajax, Achilles—nay, from Cain—down to his time."
Etymology
From Latin iracundus.
Inflected Forms
more iracund (comparative)
most iracund (superlative)