Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Easily irritated or annoyed.
- adj. Pathology Abnormally sensitive to a stimulus.
- adj. Physiology Capable of responding to stimuli.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Susceptible to mental irritation; liable to the excitement of anger or passion; irascible; petulant.
- Susceptible to physical irritation; capable of being stimulated to action by external agency; liable to contract, shrink, become inflamed, etc., when excited or stimulated: as, irritable nerves; an irritable wound.
- Specifically, in physiology and botany, possessing the property of irritability.
- Responding quickly to a stimulus; sensitive; impressible.
- Synonyms Passionate, etc. (see irascible); fretful, peevish.
Wiktionary
- adj. Capable of being irritated.
- adj. Easily exasperated or excited.
- adj. Responsive to stimuli.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Capable of being irritated.
- adj. Very susceptible of anger or passion; easily inflamed or exasperated.
- adj. (Physiol.) Endowed with irritability; susceptible of irritation; capable of being excited to action by the application of certain stimuli.
- adj. (Med.) Susceptible of irritation; unduly sensitive to irritants or stimuli. See Irritation, n., 3.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. capable of responding to stimuli
- adj. easily irritated or annoyed
- adj. abnormally sensitive to a stimulus
Etymologies
- irritate + -able (Wiktionary)
- French irritable, from Latin irrītābilis, from irrītāre, to irritate. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Anne Crank: Diary of a Young Girl - increasingly irritable from the combination of cabin fever and puberty, Anne begins to write bitter rants against those who share the attic with her.”
“Yet people are quick to label irritable or angry people as “bad children” or “bad people.””
“It buzzed in short, irritable circles before settling back to its feeding spot.”
“The song had ceased from his lips; but Mary was irritable from a burnt hand and a grandchild whose stomach refused to digest properly diluted cows 'milk.”
“French teacher, loving children, wanting in dignity, broken in English, irritable in disposition; a sensitive young stranger, fresh from home, charming in innocence, sad with thoughts of a dear mother; a poor, frightened kitten, are all objects for boys 'cruelty to gloat over.”
“In popular use, the term dyspeptic still refers to an irritable and fragile psychological state.”
“In children and adolescents, this may be characterized as an irritable mood.”
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“And she's now developed a condition, sometimes called irritable bladder syndrome.”
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Bad Mood
If you're gonna feel this way, you might as well enjoy it.
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