Irritable Definition

ĭrĭ-tə-bəl
adjective
Easily annoyed or provoked.
Webster's New World
In an ill humor; bad-tempered; peevish.
Webster's New World
Excessively or pathologically sensitive to a stimulus.
Webster's New World
Able to respond to a stimulus.
Webster's New World
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Origin of Irritable

  • French irritable from Latin irrītābilis from irrītāre to irritate

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From French irritable, from Latin irritabilis

    From Wiktionary

Irritable Sentence Examples

  • His temper was irritable, his habits penurious and solitary.

  • It was the weather that made her so irritable.

  • She is never fretful or irritable, and I have never seen her impatient with her playmates because they failed to understand her.

  • He could, never forgive Gustavus for having forestalled the revolution, and his morbidly irritable and suspicious temper saw slights and insults in the most innocent conjunctures.

  • He grew still more irritable, and it was Princess Mary who generally bore the brunt of his frequent fits of unprovoked anger.

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