Crossword clues for irritable
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Irritable \Ir"ri*ta*ble\, a. [L. irritabilis: cf. F. irritable. See Irritate.]
Capable of being irritated.
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Very susceptible of anger or passion; easily inflamed or exasperated; as, an irritable temper.
Vicious, old, and irritable.
--Tennyson. (Physiol.) Endowed with irritability; susceptible of irritation; capable of being excited to action by the application of certain stimuli.
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(Med.) Susceptible of irritation; unduly sensitive to irritants or stimuli. See Irritation, n., 3.
Syn: Excitable; irascible; touchy; fretful; peevish.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1660s, from French irritable and directly from Latin irritabilis "easily excited," from irritare (see irritate). Related: Irritably.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Capable of being irritated. 2 Easily exasperated or excited. 3 Responsive to stimuli.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "irritable".
She frequently complained of headache, and when she was exceedingly irritable and violent all the athetoid movements would be intensified.
Perhaps a dozen more such lines as the following would reduce the most irritable of critics to a state of inaction.
Most physiologists believe that in irritable plants the excitement is transmitted along, or in close connection with, the fibrovascular bundles.
Over the course of the following two weeks, Magali became increasingly irritable, not asking things of Hota so much as giving orders and expressing her displeasure when he was slow to obey.
In all diseases involving the female reproductive organs, with which there is usually associated an irritable condition of the nervous system, it is unsurpassed as a remedy.
Prior to the development of the spasmodic affection, there is usually a period in which the sufferer notes a want of appetite, languidness, with disinclination towards mental or bodily pursuits, headache, restlessness, pains in the limbs and joints, with irritable temper and weakness of memory.
Battles in boardrooms made him irritable, and he found them endlessly boring.
She wanted to forget, and to make him forget, the months of irritable jangling and sharp discussions, the months of cold aloofness and indifference and to remember only that he was her own dear Comus as in the days of yore, before he had grown from an unmanageable pickle into a weariful problem.
The hardships and annoyances that we endured made everybody else cross and irritable.
In those days Sir Orlando was unhappy and irritable, doubtful of further success as regarded the Coalition, but quite resolved to put the house down about the ears of the inhabitants rather than to leave it with gentle resignation.
When Ivor Glantz had returned six weeks ago from an extended lecture tour of South and Central America, explaining his new bacteriological techniques to major universities, he had been tired and irritable and aching for rest.
Notwithstanding his concessions, he blamed Sidney for the girl's leaving home, and, as his mood grew more irritable, the more hopeless it seemed that Clara would return, he nursed the suspicion of treacherous behaviour on Sidney's part.
As there is nothing more irritable than the feelings of a culinary artist, I was expecting a sharp answer.
Most of the admissions were in a state of shock, and while some of them were silent and uncaring of what was happening around them there were several who were restless and irritable.
It was nearing ten o’clock and the aproned waiters were growing irritable.