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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD IRACUND

From Latin īrācundus, from īra anger.
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PRONUNCIATION OF IRACUND

iracund  [ˈaɪərəˌkʌnd] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF IRACUND

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Iracund is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES IRACUND MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of iracund in the English dictionary

The definition of iracund in the dictionary is easily angered.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH IRACUND


bandh
bʌnd
bund
bʌnd
Bundelkhand
ˌbʌndəlˈkʌnd
cummerbund
ˈkʌməˌbʌnd
defund
diːˈfʌnd
fund
fʌnd
gunned
ɡʌnd
Jharkhand
ˈdʒɑːkʌnd
moribund
ˈmɒrɪˌbʌnd
refund
rɪˈfʌnd
rotund
rəʊˈtʌnd
secund
sɪˈkʌnd
shunned
ʃʌnd
stunned
stʌnd
sunned
sʌnd
superfund
ˈsuːpərˌfʌnd
tund
tʌnd
tunned
tʌnd
unsunned
ʌnˈsʌnd
verecund
ˈvɛrɪˌkʌnd

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE IRACUND

iracundity
iracundulous
irade
Irak
Iraki
Iran
Iran-Iraq War
Irangate
Iranian
Iraq
Iraqi
IRAS
irascibility
irascible
irascibleness
irascibly
irate
irately
irateness

WORDS THAT END LIKE IRACUND

all-around
around
background
bound
compound
Dortmund
fall to the ground
fecund
found
ground
hound
infecund
into the ground
jocund
pound
round
rubicund
sound
to the ground
underground

Synonyms and antonyms of iracund in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «iracund» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF IRACUND

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The translations of iracund from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «iracund» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

iracund
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

iracund
570 millions of speakers

English

iracund
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

iracund
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

iracund
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

iracund
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

iracund
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

iracund
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

iracund
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Iracund
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

iracund
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

iracund
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

iracund
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Iracund
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

iracund
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

iracund
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

इराकुंड
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

iracund
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

iracund
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

iracund
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

iracund
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

iracund
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

iracund
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

iracund
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

iracund
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

iracund
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of iracund

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «IRACUND»

The term «iracund» is used very little and occupies the 178.568 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «IRACUND» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about iracund

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «IRACUND»

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The Chambers Dictionary
\RAabbrev: Irish Republican Army. iracund i rj-kund. adj inclined to become angry, easily angered. — n iracund ity — adj iracund ulous somewhat iracund. [L iracundus, from ira anger] irade i-ra de, (hist) n a written decree of the Sultan of ...
Allied Chambers, 1998
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Origins: A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English
See IRAK. irascible,whence irascibility; irate;iracund, ire. —oestrus, whence theadjj oestrous, oestrual. 1. Līra(s andrīr), anger, becomesOF ire,adopted by E; hence Shakespeare's ireful.L īra has adj īrācundus, with cundus a var of the suffix  ...
Eric Partridge, 2006
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Inductive Latin course for beginners
Qa-i, who, he who. m. qu-ne, who, she who. f. quo-d, n. which, that which or what. just-ws, just-a, $ust-um,just. iracund-us, iracund-a, iracund-um, passionate. si, if nam, 17,18 The demonstrative Pronoun, hie, kaec, 19,20 The relative Pronoun, ...
William Brownrigg Smith, 1856
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History of Friedrich 2. of Prussia, Called Frederick the ...
Dryasdust knows only that these Preussen were a strong-boned, iracund herdsmamandfisher-people; highly averse to be interfered with, in their religion especially. Famous otherwise, through all the centuries, for the amber they had been ...
‎1858
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The Works of Thomas Carlyle
[997 knows only that these Preussen were a strong-boned, iracund herdsman- and-fisher people ; highly averse to be interfered with, in their religion especially. Famous otherwise, through all the centuries, for the amber they' had been used to ...
Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill, 2010
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History of Friedrich II. Of Prussia, Frederick the Great ...
Dryasdust knows only thatthese PREUSSEN were a strongboned,iracund herdsmanandfisher people;highly averse tobeinterferedwith, intheir religion especially. Famous otherwise, throughall the centuries, forthe AMBER they had been ...
David Widger
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The Scrabble Word-Building Book: Updated Edition
IRACUND -; - IRK birk, dirk, IRADE tirade; irades kirk, mirk; irks IRADES tirades; - IRKED -; - IRATE pirate; irater IRKING -; - IRATEST -; - IRKS birks, dirks, IRATEST -; - kirks, mirks; - IRE cire, fire, IRKSOME -; - fire, tire, wire, IROKO -; irokos mire, ...
‎2007
8
History of Friedrich II of Prussia
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. Famous otherwise, through all the centuries, for the amber they had been ...
Thomas Carlyle, 1870
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History of Friedrich the Second called Frederick the Great
... or Dryasdust knows not what ; very probably a sprinkling of Swedish Goths, from old time, chiefly along the coasts. Dryasdust knows only that these Preussen were a strong-boned, iracund herdsman-and-fisher people, highly averse to being ...
Thomas Carlyle, 1858
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Gallic War
... (Gen. ips- I us ; Dat. ipsi), pron. demonstr. [for is-pse ; fr. is ; suffix pse] Self, very . — As Subst. of all persons and both numbers : Myself, yourself, etc. iracund-Ia, ise. f. [Iracund- us, "wrathful"] (" The state, or condition, of the iracund- us"; hence)  ...
Julius Caesar, John Tahourdin White, 1888

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «IRACUND»

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