Irritable
['ɪrɪtəb(ə)l] or ['ɪrɪtəbl]
Definition
(a.) Capable of being irriated.
(a.) Very susceptible of anger or passion; easily inflamed or exasperated; as, an irritable temper.
(a.) Endowed with irritability; susceptible of irritation; capable of being excited to action by the application of certain stimuli.
(a.) Susceptible of irritation; unduly sensitive to irritants or stimuli. See Irritation, n., 3.
Typist: Ursula
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Irascible, fretful, testy, touchy, peevish, pettish, waspish, snappish, choleric, splenetic, captious, petulant, excitable, hot, peppery, passionate, fiery.[2]. Susceptible (to the influence of a stimulus).
Checker: Wayne
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See HASTY]
Typed by Doreen
Examples
- How subtle her influence was, she seemed to start his irritable attention into her direction exclusively, in one minute. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- She is not often so inconsiderate, so irritable. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I found her a furrowed, grey-haired woman, grave with solitude, stern with long affliction, irritable also, and perhaps exacting. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Perhaps his temper is irritable at times. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Why, you said just now his was worse than mine, said Fred, more irritable than usual. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- If the excited and irritable populace knew I was here, I should be torn to pieces. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- You make me so irritable, sleeping there peacefully when you know perfectly well that the world is filled with sorrow. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Irritable he was; one heard thatas he apostrophized with vehemence the awkward squad under his orders. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The tall, thin man in his crumpled clothes was unnerved and irritable as a boy, finding himself on the brink of this social function. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He was irritable to madness, he could not rest, his daughters seemed to be destroying him. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Those who have used such preparations freely, know that a child usually becomes fretful and irritable between doses, and can be quieted only by larger and more frequent supplies. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Papa has been more irritable lately. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Country practitioners used to be an irritable species, susceptible on the point of honor; and Mr. Wrench was one of the most irritable among them. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Will could not say just what he thought, but he became irritable. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I have been out of order lately, and I am afraid I am a little irritable. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- He became insanely irritable, with moods of inaction. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He was always nervous and irritable before action. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- He was a Franciscan of Oxford, and a very typical Englishman indeed, irritable, hasty, honest, and shrewd. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He was irritable, and she was spirited. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Were you unusually restless and irritable? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- In Birkin's face was a little irritable tension, a sharp knitting of the brows, keen and difficult. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- But she is so irritable and of such a barbarousness that I do not know if she will do it. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- His drinking continued, about which we sometimes quarrelled; for, when a little intoxicated, he was very irritable. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Mr. Wrench, generally abstemious, often drank wine rather freely at a party, getting the more irritable in consequence. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- My temper is irritable at times too. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I feel strongly on this subject, sir,' said the irritable old gentleman, drawing off his gloves. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
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