irritable

irritable
Synonyms and related words:
aggressive, agitable, all nerves, allergic, anaphylactic, apprehensive, bad-tempered, bearish, bellicose, belligerent, bickering, bitchy, cankered, cantankerous, choleric, churlish, combative, crabbed, crabby, cranky, cross, cross-grained, crotchety, crusty, cussed, delicate, disagreeable, disputatious, divisive, dyspeptic, edgy, emotional, emotionally unstable, empathetic, empathic, eristic, eruptive, excitable, explosive, factional, factious, fearful, feisty, fractious, fretful, frightened, goosy, grouchy, gruff, high-mettled, high-spirited, high-strung, highly emotional, huffish, huffy, hyperesthetic, hyperpathic, hypersensitive, ill-humored, ill-tempered, impatient, inflammable, irascible, itchy, litigious, mean, mettlesome, moody, nerves on edge, nervous, nervy, on edge, ornery, overrefined, oversensible, oversensitive, overstrung, overtender, panicky, partisan, passible, peevish, perturbable, perverse, pettish, petulant, pindling, polarizing, polemic, prickly, pugnacious, quarrelsome, querulous, raspy, refined, responsive, sensitive, short-tempered, shrewish, skittish, snappish, snappy, spiteful, spleeny, splenetic, startlish, supersensitive, sympathetic, tactful, temperamental, tender, testy, tetchy, thin-skinned, ticklish, touchy, ugly, uneasy, volcanic, waspish, whiny, wrangling

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  • irritable — [ iritabl ] adj. • 1757; « irritant » 1520; lat. irritabilis 1 ♦ Biol. Susceptible de réagir à un stimulus. Toute matière vivante est irritable. ⇒ excitable. 2 ♦ (1829) Cour. Prompt à se mettre en colère, qu un rien irrite. ⇒ chatouilleux,… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • irritable — irritable, fractious, peevish, snappish, waspish, petulant, pettish, huffy, fretful, querulous apply to persons or to their moods or dispositions in the sense of showing impatience or anger without due or sufficient cause. Irritable implies… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • Irritable — Ir ri*ta*ble, a. [L. irritabilis: cf. F. irritable. See {Irritate}.] [1913 Webster] 1. Capable of being irritated. [1913 Webster] 2. Very susceptible of anger or passion; easily inflamed or exasperated; as, an irritable temper. [1913 Webster]… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • irritable — adjetivo 1. (ser / estar) Que se irrita o tiende a irritarse o enfadarse con facilidad: Tiene un carácter muy irritable. Estás muy irritable últimamente, ¿se puede saber qué te ocurre? …   Diccionario Salamanca de la Lengua Española

  • irritable — [ir′i tə bəl] adj. [L irritabilis < irritare, to IRRITATE] 1. easily annoyed or provoked; fretful 2. Med. excessively or pathologically sensitive to a stimulus 3. Physiol. able to respond to a stimulus irritability n. irritableness irritably… …   English World dictionary

  • irritable — (adj.) 1660s, from Fr. irritable and directly from L. irritabilis easily excited, from irritare (see IRRITATE (Cf. irritate)). Related: Irritably …   Etymology dictionary

  • irritable — index fractious, froward, petulant, querulous, sensitive (easily affected) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • irritable — [adj] bad tempered, crabby annoyed, bearish, brooding, cantankerous, carping, choleric, complaining, contentious, crabbed, cross, crotchety, disputatious, dissatisfied, dyspeptic, easily offended, exasperated, fiery, fractious, fretful, fretting …   New thesaurus

  • irritable — ► ADJECTIVE 1) easily annoyed or angered. 2) Medicine abnormally sensitive. DERIVATIVES irritability noun irritableness noun irritably adverb …   English terms dictionary

  • irritable — (i rri ta bl ) adj. 1°   Qui s irrite facilement. Homme irritable. Un esprit irritable. 2°   Qui est vivement affecté par les impressions reçues, tant au physique qu au moral. Tempérament irritable. Il a le genre nerveux très irritable.… …   Dictionnaire de la Langue Française d'Émile Littré

  • IRRITABLE — adj. des deux genres T. de Physiologie. Susceptible d irritation, de contraction. Les muscles sont irritables.   Il se dit aussi en parlant De la disposition à éprouver très vivement les impressions qu on reçoit. Il est d un tempérament fort… …   Dictionnaire de l'Academie Francaise, 7eme edition (1835)

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