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 Definitions of irritable  [ˈɪr ɪ tə bəl]  

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Definition of 'irritable' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (adj.) irritable
easily irritated or annoyed; readily excited to impatience or anger.

2.  irritable
Biol. able to be excited to a characteristic action or function by the application of a stimulus.

3.  irritable
Pathol. abnormally excitable or sensitive to stimulation.

Etymology:  (1655–65; < L)

Definition of 'irritable' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (adj) cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peevish, peckish, pettish, petulant, scratchy, testy, tetchy, techy
easily irritated or annoyed
"an incorrigibly fractious young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen"

2. (adj) irritable
abnormally sensitive to a stimulus

3. (adj) excitable, irritable
capable of responding to stimuli


Definition of 'irritable' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (adjective) irritable
easily annoyed
tired and irritable


Definition of 'irritable' Webster Dictionary 

1. (adj) irritable
capable of being irriated

2. (adj) irritable
very susceptible of anger or passion; easily inflamed or exasperated; as, an irritable temper

3. (adj) irritable
endowed with irritability; susceptible of irritation; capable of being excited to action by the application of certain stimuli

4. (adj) irritable
susceptible of irritation; unduly sensitive to irritants or stimuli. See Irritation, n., 3


Translation of 'irritable' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: easily annoyed
He was in an irritable mood.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: geïrriteerde Arabic flag Arabic: سَريع الغَضَب Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: раздразнителен
Brazilian flag Brazilian: irritável Czech flag Czech: popudlivý German flag German: reizbar
Danish flag Danish: irritabel Greek flag Greek: ευερέθιστος Spanish flag Spanish: irritable
Estonian flag Estonian: ärritatud Farsi flag Farsi: زود رنج Finnish flag Finnish: ärtyisä
French flag French: irritable Hebrew flag Hebrew: עַצבָּנִי Hindi flag Hindi: चिड़चिड़ा, क्रोधी
Croatian flag Croatian: razdražljiv Hungarian flag Hungarian: ingerlékeny Indonesian flag Indonesian: mudah kesal
Icelandic flag Icelandic: uppstökkur Italian flag Italian: irritabile Japanese flag Japanese: いらいらした
Korean flag Korean: 성급한 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: irzlus Latvian flag Latvian: uzbudināms; ātri aizkaiti
Malay flag Malay: mudah jengkel Dutch flag Dutch: prikkelbaar Norwegian flag Norwegian: irritabel,ømfintlig
Polish flag Polish: drażliwy Persian flag Persian: زود رنج Pashto flag Pashto: ژر خوا بدى كيدونكى
Portuguese flag Portuguese: irritável Romanian flag Romanian: iritabil Russian flag Russian: раздражительный
Slovak flag Slovak: popudlivý, nedotklivý Slovenian flag Slovenian: razdražljiv Serbian flag Serbian: razdražljiv
Swedish flag Swedish: lättretlig, irritabel Thai flag Thai: ขี้โมโห Turkish flag Turkish: çabuk kızar, öfkesi burnu
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 易激怒的 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: дражливий, дратівливий Urdu flag Urdu: چڑچڑا
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: bực tức Chinese flag Chinese: 易激怒的

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