irritability

irritability is a 12-letter English word with 6 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The state or quality of being irritable; quick excitability; petulance; fretfulness; as, irritability of temper. Face value is 17 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

12 letters · Scrabble 17 · Words With Friends 18 · 6 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The state or quality of being irritable; quick excitability; petulance; fretfulness; as, irritability of temper.
2. noun. A natural susceptibility, characteristic of all living organisms, tissues, and cells, to the influence of certain stimuli, response being manifested in a variety of ways, -- as that quality in plants by which they exhibit motion under suitable stimulation; esp., the property which living muscle processes, of responding either to a direct stimulus of its substance, or to the stimulating influence of its nerve fibers, the response being indicated by a change of form, or contraction; contractility.
3. noun. A condition of morbid excitability of an organ or part of the body; undue susceptibility to the influence of stimuli. See Irritation, n., 3.
4. noun. a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger

   "his temper was well known to all his employees"

   Synonyms: biliousness, peevishness, pettishness, snappishness, surliness, temper

5. noun. excessive sensitivity of an organ or body part

   Synonyms: excitability

6. noun. an irritable petulant feeling

   Synonyms: choler, crossness, fretfulness, fussiness, peevishness, petulance

Synonyms

biliousness, peevishness, pettishness, snappishness, surliness, temper, excitability, choler, crossness, fretfulness, fussiness, petulance

Common word forms

irritabilities

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