Irritable

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Easily irritated or annoyed.
  • adj. Pathology Abnormally sensitive to a stimulus.
  • adj. Physiology Capable of responding to stimuli.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Capable of being irritated.
  • adj. Easily exasperated or excited.
  • adj. Responsive to stimuli.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Capable of being irritated.
  • adj. Very susceptible of anger or passion; easily inflamed or exasperated.
  • adj. Endowed with irritability; susceptible of irritation; capable of being excited to action by the application of certain stimuli.
  • adj. Susceptible of irritation; unduly sensitive to irritants or stimuli. See Irritation, n., 3.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Susceptible to mental irritation; liable to the excitement of anger or passion; irascible; petulant.
  • Susceptible to physical irritation; capable of being stimulated to action by external agency; liable to contract, shrink, become inflamed, etc., when excited or stimulated: as, irritable nerves; an irritable wound.
  • Specifically, in physiology and botany, possessing the property of irritability.
  • Responding quickly to a stimulus; sensitive; impressible.
  • Synonyms Passionate, etc. (see irascible); fretful, peevish.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. capable of responding to stimuli
  • adj. easily irritated or annoyed
  • adj. abnormally sensitive to a stimulus
  • Equivalent
    Cross Reference
    irascible    excitable   
    Variant
    irritation   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    irascible    touchy    excitable    fretful    peevish   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    petulant    restless    morose    surly    impatient    resentful    quarrelsome    uneasy    jealous    discontented