irritable

irritable is a 9-letter English word with 7 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Capable of being irriated. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

9 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 13 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Capable of being irriated.
2. adjective. Very susceptible of anger or passion; easily inflamed or exasperated; as, an irritable temper.
3. adjective. Endowed with irritability; susceptible of irritation; capable of being excited to action by the application of certain stimuli.
4. adjective. Susceptible of irritation; unduly sensitive to irritants or stimuli. See Irritation, n., 3.
5. adjective. easily irritated or annoyed

   "an incorrigibly fractious young man"

   "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen"

   Synonyms: cranky, fractious, nettlesome, peckish, peevish, pettish, petulant, scratchy, techy, testy, tetchy

6. adjective. capable of responding to stimuli

   Synonyms: excitable

7. adjective. abnormally sensitive to a stimulus

Synonyms

cranky, fractious, nettlesome, peckish, peevish, pettish, petulant, scratchy, techy, testy, tetchy, excitable

Common word forms

irritableness

Words from these letters

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