Other forms: infuriated, infuriating, infuriates
To infuriate is to make somebody extremely angry. It infuriates me, infuriated by the delay, an infuriating habit.
The adjective is the commonest form, and infuriating is reserved for the small persistent things rather than the large ones. The Latin behind it is fury, so the word means quite literally to put a fury into somebody.
1verbinfuriateTo make somebody extremely angry.
“It infuriates me when people talk loudly on the phone in the cinema.”
infuriate is an angering.
Medieval Latin infuriare means to enrage, from Latin furia, rage or fury.
Italian
infuriato
Latin
furia — rage, fury, frenzy
Medieval Latin
infuriātus — enraged
English, today
infuriate
Built from
1667; Medieval Latin infuriātus (“enraged”), perfect passive participle of infuriō (“to enrage”) (see -ate), from Latin furia (“rage, fury, frenzy”); perhaps via Italian infuriato.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA