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

Example sentences :

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

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