Other forms: ires
Ire is anger, in a formal or literary sense. Draw his ire, raise the ire of, the ire of the public.
It survives mostly in headlines, where it is short and dramatic, and in the phrase to draw somebody's ire. The related adjective irate is far more common in ordinary speech than the noun is.
1nounireAnger, in a formal or literary sense.
“Her rude reply only increased his ire.”
ire is an anger.
Old French ire comes from Latin ira, anger, the root of irate and irascible.
Old English
īre
Middle English
ire
English, today
ire
Built from
From Middle English ire, yre, from Old English īre, ȳre, īr, ȳr, shortened form of īren (“iron”). More at iron.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA