Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act of irritating.
- n. The condition of being irritated; vexation: honked the horn with irritation at the delay.
- n. A source of irritation.
- n. Pathology A condition of inflammation, soreness, or irritability of a bodily organ or part.
- n. Physiology The elicitation of activity or response in an animal or plant organ or tissue.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of irritating, or the state of being irritated; impatient or angry excitement; provocation; exasperation.
- n. Stimulation; incitement; a stirring up to activity.
- n. In physiology, the act of evoking some action, or change of state, in a muscle, nerve, or other living tissue, by some chemical, physical, or pathological agent; the state or action thus evoked.
Wiktionary
- n. The act of irritating, or exciting, or the state of being irritated; excitement; stimulation, usually of an undue and uncomfortable kind; especially, excitement of anger or passion; provocation; annoyance; anger.
- n. The act of exciting, or the condition of being excited to action, by stimulation; -- as, the condition of an organ of sense, when its nerve is affected by some external body; esp., the act of exciting muscle fibers to contraction, by artificial stimulation; as, the irritation of a motor nerve by electricity; also, the condition of a muscle and nerve, under such stimulation.
- n. A condition of morbid excitability or oversensitiveness of an organ or part of the body; a state in which the application of ordinary stimuli produces pain or excessive or vitiated action.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of irritating, or exciting, or the state of being irritated; excitement; stimulation, usually of an undue and uncomfortable kind; especially, excitement of anger or passion; provocation; annoyance; anger.
- n. (Physiol.) The act of exciting, or the condition of being excited to action, by stimulation; -- as, the condition of an organ of sense, when its nerve is affected by some external body; esp., the act of exciting muscle fibers to contraction, by artificial stimulation; ; also, the condition of a muscle and nerve, under such stimulation.
- n. (Med.) A condition of morbid excitability or oversensitiveness of an organ or part of the body; a state in which the application of ordinary stimuli produces pain or excessive or vitiated action.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a sudden outburst of anger
- n. the neural or electrical arousal of an organ or muscle or gland
- n. the psychological state of being irritated or annoyed
- n. the act of troubling or annoying someone
- n. an uncomfortable feeling of mental painfulness or distress
- n. unfriendly behavior that causes anger or resentment
- n. (pathology) abnormal sensitivity to stimulation
Etymologies
- From Latin irritatio, from irritare ("to excite") (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Where a woman is not allowed to show a certain irritation with such a question?”
“And yet, whenever I ceased struggling for sleep, and lighted the lamp and read, my skin irritation decreased.”
“Devil be damned!" was the next, uttered in irritation and anger.”
“Of particular irritation is the notion that many undergraduates now come to the library to relax, meet and text friends, and play on laptops, rather than to read books.”
“Flush the skin for 15 minutes with soap and water then apply a lotion or cream if the irritation is still present.”
“The main thrust of my irritation comes from the fact that this was marketed in Previews as the issue that would tell us what Noh-Varr has been doing.”
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“Davis thinks the Wizard may also suffer from skin irritation -- he noticed a bit of a rash during Arenas's cleanshaven days.”
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“But until we address it, we need to be prepared for a great deal of irritation from a great many people.”
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“What I do deny, quite forcefully and with extreme irritation, is that this disaster is, in any way, shape, or form, the work of God.”
“Rant on tangentially connected subject: My biggest irritation is that the book has endnotes rather than footnotes - this is just about tolerable if the endnotes are mere citations of sources, but if as in this book they contain substantial nuggets of additional fact, it is bizarre to bury them hundreds of pages away, and a huge disservice to both writer and reader on the part of the publisher.”
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