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synonyms for irritable

  • annoyed
  • contentious
  • exasperated
  • fractious
  • petulant
  • prickly
  • resentful
  • surly
  • testy
  • bearish
  • brooding
  • cantankerous
  • carping
  • choleric
  • complaining
  • crabbed
  • cross
  • crotchety
  • disputatious
  • dissatisfied
  • dyspeptic
  • easily offended
  • fiery
  • fretful
  • fretting
  • gloomy
  • grouchy
  • grumbling
  • hasty
  • hot
  • huffy
  • hypercritical
  • ill-humored
  • irascible
  • moody
  • morose
  • out of humor
  • oversensitive
  • peevish
  • plaintive
  • querulous
  • quick-tempered
  • sensitive
  • snappy
  • snarling
  • tense
  • touchy
See also synonyms for: irritableness / irritably

antonyms for irritable

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  • happy
  • pleasant
  • cheerful
  • nice
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How to use irritable in a sentence

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Normally even-keeled, he was irritable and short-tempered, including with her son — and Huddleston’s soon-to-be stepson — Allan Osborn.
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As the day approached, my daughter grew more and more irritable.
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He became irritable, distressed, and anxious—struggled hard to get the needful sum together, struggled and strove; but failed.
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As, during the whole pepper-harvest, they feed wholly on this stimulant, they become exceedingly irritable.
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There was also a moral reaction, and the boy became capricious, irritable, and unlike his former self.
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There are few greater annoyances of life than an irritable woman, rendered doubly morose by the infirmities of years.
MADAME ROLAND, MAKERS OF HISTORYJOHN S. C. ABBOTT
The Colonel, who was suffering from an attack of rheumatic gout, was more irritable than usual.
THE CROMPTONSMARY J. HOLMES
He drove with a sort of irritable feverishness, until Henri leaned over and touched him on the shoulder.
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It was Tanqueray who kept on looking at him with clear, contemplative eyes under brows no longer irritable.
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