enraging
English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]enraging (comparative more enraging, superlative most enraging)
- Causing one to become enraged; infuriating.
- 1888, Jane Ellen Panton, From Kitchen to Garret: Hints for Young Householders, page 146:
- 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.
- 2012, Jinwung Kim, A History of Korea, page 301:
- Most enraging to the peasants was the tax he forcibly levied on irrigation water from the Mansŏk-po reservoir .
- 2023, Stephen Marr, Patience Mususa, DIY Urbanism in Africa: Politics and Practice, page 100:
- 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.
Derived terms
[edit]Verb
[edit]enraging
- present participle and gerund of enrage