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IRRITABLE

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Dictionary entry overview: What does irritable mean?

• IRRITABLE (adjective)
The adjective IRRITABLE has 3 senses:

1. easily irritated or annoyed
2. abnormally sensitive to a stimulus
3. capable of responding to stimuli

Familiarity information: IRRITABLE used as an adjective is uncommon.

Dictionary entry details

• IRRITABLE (adjective)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Easily irritated or annoyed

Synonyms:

petulant; tetchy; irritable; testy; techy; peevish; pettish; scratchy; cranky; peckish; nettlesome; fractious

Context examples:

an incorrigibly fractious young man / not the least nettlesome of his countrymen

Similar:

ill-natured (having an irritable and unpleasant disposition)

Sense 2

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Meaning:

Abnormally sensitive to a stimulus

Similar:

sensitive (responsive to physical stimuli)

Domain category:

pathology (the branch of medical science that studies the causes and nature and effects of diseases)

Sense 3

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Meaning:

Capable of responding to stimuli

Synonyms:

excitable; irritable

Similar:

sensitive (responsive to physical stimuli)

Domain category:

physiology (the branch of the biological sciences dealing with the functioning of organisms)

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