irritation

irritation is a 10-letter English word with 10 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

10 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 11 · 10 senses

Definitions

1. noun. 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.
2. noun. 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.
3. noun. 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.
4. noun. the act of troubling or annoying someone

   Synonyms: annoyance, annoying, vexation

5. noun. unfriendly behavior that causes anger or resentment

   Synonyms: aggravation, provocation

6. noun. an uncomfortable feeling of mental painfulness or distress

   Synonyms: discomfort, soreness

7. noun. a sudden outburst of anger

   "his temper sparked like damp firewood"

   Synonyms: pique, temper

8. noun. the neural or electrical arousal of an organ or muscle or gland

   Synonyms: excitation, innervation

9. noun. the psychological state of being irritated or annoyed

   Synonyms: annoyance, botheration, vexation

10. noun. (pathology) abnormal sensitivity to stimulation

    "any food produced irritation of the stomach"

Synonyms

annoyance, annoying, vexation, aggravation, provocation, discomfort, soreness, pique, temper, excitation, innervation, botheration

Common word forms

irritations

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