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Antonyms for irritable
Grammar : Adj |
Spell : ir-i-tuh-buhl |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈɪr ɪ tə bəl |
Definition of irritable
Origin :- 1660s, from French irritable and directly from Latin irritabilis "easily excited," from irritare (see irritate). Related: Irritably.
- adj bad-tempered, crabby
- It will be guessed that Mr. Chalmers Payne was in an irritable frame of mind.
- Extract from : « Quaint Courtships » by Various
- Casanova, however, had suddenly grown distrait and irritable.
- Extract from : « Casanova's Homecoming » by Arthur Schnitzler
- You shall not complain of an inattentive or an irritable auditor.
- Extract from : « Vivian Grey » by Earl of Beaconsfield, Benjamin Disraeli
- Ninian joined them on the following day, very cheerless and irritable.
- Extract from : « Changing Winds » by St. John G. Ervine
- Recollect that he is suffering under his wound, which has made him irritable.
- Extract from : « The Pirate and The Three Cutters » by Frederick Marryat
- I cannot afford to be irritable and captious, nor to waste all my time in attacks.
- Extract from : « Essays, Second Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- And now when he was irritable and angry with the children, she did not even look at him reproachfully.
- Extract from : « The Great Hunger » by Johan Bojer
- The very mention of the theme is sure to render him irritable and unhappy.
- Extract from : « Roland Cashel » by Charles James Lever
- Do you know, child, that we have got into a most irritable tone with each other?
- Extract from : « Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume I. » by Charles James Lever
- And is it not more than hard for a hasty, peevish, irritable dog like myself?
- Extract from : « Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume II. » by Charles James Lever
Synonyms for irritable
- annoyed
- bearish
- brooding
- cantankerous
- carping
- choleric
- complaining
- contentious
- crabbed
- cross
- crotchety
- disputatious
- dissatisfied
- dyspeptic
- easily offended
- exasperated
- fiery
- fractious
- fretful
- fretting
- gloomy
- grouchy
- grumbling
- hasty
- hot
- huffy
- hypercritical
- ill-humored
- irascible
- moody
- morose
- out of humor
- oversensitive
- peevish
- petulant
- plaintive
- prickly
- querulous
- quick-tempered
- resentful
- sensitive
- snappy
- snarling
- surly
- tense
- testy
- touchy
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