Irritable Synonyms and Antonyms

ĭrĭ-tə-bəl
Having or showing a bad temper
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. cranky
  2. peevish
  3. petulant
  4. testy
  5. cantankerous
  6. irascible
  7. fretful
  8. cross
  9. fractious
  10. excitable
  11. grouchy
  12. querulous
  13. crabbed
  14. ill-tempered
  15. choleric
  16. disagreeable
  17. annoyed
  18. captious
  19. surly
  20. snappish
  21. touchy
  22. tense
  23. grumpy
  24. quick-tempered
  25. moody
  26. splenetic
  27. waspish
  28. crabby
  29. snappy
  30. short-tempered
  31. sensitive
  32. tetchy
  33. huffy
  34. bad-tempered
  35. high-strung
  36. contentious
  37. disputatious
  38. resentful
  39. fretting
  40. carping
  41. hypercritical
  42. out of humor
  43. bearish
  44. easily offended
  45. glum
  46. complaining
  47. brooding
  48. atrabilious
  49. dissatisfied
  50. plaintive
  51. bilious
  52. snarling
  53. grumbling
  54. gloomy
  55. ill-natured
  56. morose
  57. fidgety
  58. nasty
  59. crotchety
  60. curmudgeonly
  61. hypersensitive
  62. dyspeptic
  63. ill-humored
  64. edgy
  65. churlish
  66. gruff
  67. fiery
  68. short
  69. shrewish
  70. nettlesome
  71. sulky
  72. sullen
  73. crusty
  74. having a short fuse
  75. thin-skinned
  76. impatient
  77. pickle-pussed
  78. ugly
  79. sour-bellied
  80. ornery
  81. peckish
  82. mean
  83. pettish
  84. spleeny
  85. scratchy
  86. techy
Antonyms:
  1. pleasant
  2. happy
  3. good-humored
  4. agreeable
  5. cheerful
  6. good-natured
  7. nice

Words Related to Irritable

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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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