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Another word for irritable

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Adjective

  1. Having or showing a bad temper

    Idioms:
    See also:

    attitude

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Another word for irritable

Modifier
  1. See also:

    quarrelsome

    excitable

    critical

    Antonyms:

Synonym Study

  • Cranky and cross suggest moods in which one cannot be easily pleased or satisfied, cranky because of stubborn notions or whims, and cross because of ill humor
  • Touchy applies to one who is acutely irritable or sensitive and is too easily offended
  • Splenetic suggests a peevish moroseness in one quick to vent his malice or spite
  • Irascible and choleric are applied to persons who are hot-tempered and can be roused to a fit of anger at the slightest irritation
  • Irritable implies quick excitability to annoyance or anger, usually resulting from emotional tension, restlessness, physical indisposition, etc.
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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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