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UK
/ˈɪɹɪtəbəl/
]
[ US /ˈɪɹətəbəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈɪɹətəbəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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easily irritated or annoyed
not the least nettlesome of his countrymen
an incorrigibly fractious young man - capable of responding to stimuli
- abnormally sensitive to a stimulus
How To Use irritable In A Sentence
- Jo was tired, irritable, and depressed.
- Otherwise this irritable maunderer would have known that, everything else apart, I am heartily tired of the responsibilities of youth under any such constant surveillance. Jurgen A Comedy of Justice
- Thus, according to the Chinese, people in whom the liver is too full of blood and hence hard and congested, will be naturally irritable.
- The same drug given intravenously prevents the postprandial increase in sigmoid segmenting pressure activity in patients with irritable bowel syndrome.
- Trigger points are discrete, focal, hyperirritable spots located in a taut band of skeletal muscle.
- Among these herbaceous plants we find at intervals the Avicennia tomentosa, the Scoparia dulcis, a frutescent mimosa with very irritable leaves, * and particularly cassias, the number of which is so great in South America, that we collected, in our travels, more than thirty new species. Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
- Lack of testosterone leaves men bad-tempered, emotional, depressed and suffering from Irritable Male Syndrome, scientist Gerald Lincoln told BBC radio's recently.
- It also might help with problems such as irritable bowel and poor digestion. The Sun
- But, indeed, nature herself seemed to have been his vintner, and at his birth charged him so thoroughly with an irritable, brandy-like disposition, that all subsequent potations were needless.
- Three types of people live an unlivable life: those who are overly compassionate, overly irritable, or overly sensitive.