irritable
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3.7
- adjective
- /ˈɪrɪtəbl/
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irritable
- And what is it to become irritable or angry with people?
- become irritable
- moody and irritable
- feel irritable
I feel like I'm tired, I'm irritable, you know, not sleeping.
- I feel like I'm tired, I'm irritable, you know, not sleeping.
- So a form of depression people often don't recognize is irritable depression, Right?
- I like this sense of incompleteness and restless, irritable discontent.
- I like not being droopy and and irritable in the morning when I want some coffee.
- They do not do solitude and can get quite irritable if they have to spend time alone.
- And so we're tense and irritable and upset.
- You might you might think, but people also do become very irritable when they fast.
- They tend to in some cases be irritable.
- Like I feel tense all over and just irritable.
- I always know I'm REM sleep deprived when I'm irritable.
- I could, I'm, I can get irritable.
- I mean, it was Moody, but I, I was an insomniac, highly, highly irritable, very distractible.
- And so if I'm peevish or irritable, then, well, that's not good.
- You'll just notice that their mood gets bad, they're irritable, they're sad, they cry much easier than they normally do.
- And there I find the opposite when I don't do that kind of thing, I'm much more irritable.
- OK, A lot of people say, yeah, but this person can be really irritable and you go, OK, oh, they're irritable in different settings.
Examples
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They do not do solitude and can get quite irritable if they have to spend time alone.
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And so if I'm peevish or irritable, then, well, that's not good.
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Some individuals become irritable when they are sick and may be hard to please.
Academic text (2015) -
If we wake him up in the middle of the night, he'll be irritable.
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And so we're tense and irritable and upset.
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The ten directors now sitting in the conference room were irritable and impatient.
Fiction book (1990) -
When she wasn't sleeping, she was very irritable.
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Instead, Masters was agitated and irritable, much to the chagrin of the rest of the crew.
Fiction book (1991) -
Then that feeds back up to your central nervous system and you're anxious or you're irritable for no real reason.
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When he is hungry, he becomes irritable and snaps at everyone around him.
Synonyms
117
4.2
Easily annoyed and upset when tired or hungry
97
2.8
Quickly annoyed when having to wait
76
1.7
Easily annoyed and in a bad mood
32
7.2
Easily annoyed and quick to get angry
24
5.4
Feeling easily annoyed and in a bad mood
22
8.5
Being bad-tempered and stubborn, often hard to deal with
19
8.2
Acting easily annoyed and impatient about small things
19
3.9
Easily annoyed and often in a bad mood
18
9.6
Quick to become annoyed and show a bad mood
11
6.7
Annoyed or a little angry about something small
6
8.8
Often in a bad mood and easily annoyed by small things
5
8.6
Quick to become angry, often at small things
5
7.8
Quick to get annoyed by small things
4
4.2
Quick to get angry or easily annoyed
4
5.7
Easily annoyed and quick to get angry
3
3.5
Quick to get angry or annoyed
1
6.0
To become angry quickly and easily
1
5.6
Quick to become annoyed or upset
1
9.1
Being easily annoyed and quick to feel offended
1
8.1
Being easily annoyed by small things
1
9.9
Easily annoyed and quick to complain about small things
Becoming easily annoyed and acting in a bad-tempered way
Quick to get annoyed about small things
Easily annoyed by small things
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
3
3.7
A common condition that causes belly pain and changes in toilet habits, often after stress
How Irritable
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word irritable comes from the Latin irritare, meaning 'to excite' or 'to provoke', and it shares the same root as irritate. So, an irritable person is easy to 'provoke' or annoy, which explains why they get upset over small things.