Modifying Another Word

• rather: Although he seems a rather irritable fellow, I am willing to persevere with him for your sake, my dear lady.

• very: He was very irritable, bad-tempered, " she told AFP.

• so: I was on my own with all four children all morning and was so irritable, poor things.

• often: When children don't get enough sleep they are often irritable and unable to cope with stress.

• unusually: If you wake up with a headache and feel unusually irritable, measure your blood sugar at about 3am.

• extremely: A young player with a head injury may be extremely irritable or fretful or may cry constantly.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• make: Beneficial smells to driving include peppermint and cinnamon, which improve concentration levels as well as making drivers less irritable.

• get: Naturally feels a world better than before however can get a bit irritable, recovery better, coping mechanism improved.

Modifies a noun

• syndrome: Impact of irritable bowel syndrome on quality of life.

• bowel: She could suffer from a kind of irritable bowel - brought on by stress.

• bladder: Recent research shows that this condition of ' irritable bladder ' is not part of the normal aging process.

• symptom: Ask most women and they will agree that the most common and irritable symptom of menopause are hot flashes.

• mood: No man likes to be dogged, and in the very irritable mood in which I then was the sight of Mdlle.

• disease: Results There were 155 cases of irritable bowel disease, with 152 definite or probable cases.

Used with adjective complement

• feel: Tue 14th Jan - Feeling somewhat irritable with such a big class.

• become: About half of all babies who have the vaccine may become irritable, about 1:20 may get a mild fever.

• get: Iâm not enjoying being away from work, Iâm getting irritable looking for things to do, anything!

• have: People who think they have Irritable Bowel Syndrome may have undiagnosed coeliac disease.

• seem: They may also seem irritable, tearful or agitated.

• call: In fact, there's a thing called Irritable Man Syndrome.