Irritable definitions

ĭr'ĭ-tə-bəl
The definition of irritable is someone who is cranky, or who has the tendency to be grumpy and get mad easily.

A woman who is very pregnant, has raging hormones and gets really mad at everything all the time is an example of someone who would be described as irritable.

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Easily irritated or annoyed.
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Abnormally or excessively sensitive to a stimulus.

Irritable bladder.

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Capable of responding to a stimulus. Used of an organism.
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Easily annoyed or provoked.
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In an ill humor; bad-tempered; peevish.
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Excessively or pathologically sensitive to a stimulus.
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Able to respond to a stimulus.
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Easily irritated or annoyed.
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Abnormally or excessively sensitive to a stimulus.

Irritable bladder.

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Capable of responding to a stimulus. Used of an organism.
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Capable of being irritated.
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Easily exasperated or excited.
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Responsive to stimuli.
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Origin of irritable

French irritable from Latin irrītābilis from irrītāre to irritate

Sentence Examples

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

  • 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.

  • In the cough of phthisis minute doses are of service, but in this particular disease morphine is frequently better replaced by codeine or by heroin, which checks irritable coughs without the narcotism following upon the administration of morphine.

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