 irritable |
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| 1. | [ adjective ] easily irritated or annoyed | |
| Synonyms: | peevish fractious testy peckish pettish petulant nettlesome tetchy techy cranky | |
| Examples: | "an incorrigibly fractious young man" "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen" |
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| Related terms: | ill-natured | |
| 2. | [ adjective ] (pathology) abnormally sensitive to a stimulus | |
| Related terms: | pathology sensitive | |
| 3. | [ adjective ] (physiology) capable of responding to stimuli | |
| Synonyms: | excitable | |
| Related terms: | physiology sensitive | |
| Similar spelling: |
irritably irritability |
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