If people who smoke are deprived of their cigarettes, they get nervous and irritable.
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Irritable
//ˈɪɹɪtəbl̩//
Synonyms for "irritable" (217 found)
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Related words (108)
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70 translations across 28 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- δύσκολος adj (easily exasperated or excited)
Bulgarian
3 entries- раздразнителен adj (capable of being irritated)
- сприхав adj (easily exasperated or excited)
- чувствителен adj (responsive to stimuli)
Catalan
2 entries- irritable adj (capable of being irritated)
- irritable adj (easily exasperated or excited)
Esperanto
2 entries- incitebla adj (capable of being irritated)
- incitiĝema adj (capable of being irritated)
Finnish
4 entries- herkkä adj (responsive to stimuli)
- herkkänahkainen adj (responsive to stimuli)
- kärttyinen adj (easily exasperated or excited)
- kärttyisä adj (easily exasperated or excited)
French
3 entries- irritable adj (capable of being irritated)
- irritable adj (easily exasperated or excited)
- irritable adj (responsive to stimuli)
German
3 entries- reizbar adj (capable of being irritated)
- reizbar adj (easily exasperated or excited)
- reizbar adj (responsive to stimuli)
Hebrew
1 entries- רָגִיז adj (easily exasperated or excited)
Hungarian
1 entries- ingerlékeny adj (easily exasperated or excited)
Irish
3 entries- colgach adj (easily exasperated or excited)
- drisíneach adj (easily exasperated or excited)
- greannaitheach adj (capable of being irritated)
Kabuverdianu
2 entries- iradu adj (capable of being irritated)
- iradu adj (easily exasperated or excited)
Latin
2 entries- stomachōsus adj (easily exasperated or excited)
- ācriculus adj (easily exasperated or excited)
Macedonian
4 entries- надразлив adj (capable of being irritated)
- надразлив adj (easily exasperated or excited)
- надразлив adj (responsive to stimuli)
- раздразлив adj (capable of being irritated)
Māori
4 entries- amowheke adj (capable of being irritated)
- kiriweti adj (capable of being irritated)
- mānehenehe adj (capable of being irritated)
- pukukino adj (capable of being irritated)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- irritabel adj (capable of being irritated)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- irritabel adj (capable of being irritated)
Ottoman Turkish
4 entries- تتیز adj (capable of being irritated)
- تتیز adj (easily exasperated or excited)
- خرچین adj (capable of being irritated)
- خرچین adj (easily exasperated or excited)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- brumsch adj (easily exasperated or excited)
Romanian
1 entries- iritabil adj (capable of being irritated)
Russian
2 entries- раздражи́тельный adj (capable of being irritated)
- раздражительный adj (easily exasperated or excited)
Scots
1 entries- carnaptious adj (capable of being irritated)
Scottish Gaelic
4 entries- crosta adj (capable of being irritated)
- crosta adj (easily exasperated or excited)
- dranndanach adj (capable of being irritated)
- gruamach adj (capable of being irritated)
Slovak
1 entries- prchký adj (capable of being irritated)
Spanish
2 entries- irritable adj (capable of being irritated)
- irritable adj (easily exasperated or excited)
Tagalog
1 entries- talusaling adj (responsive to stimuli)
Turkish
4 entries- aksi adj (capable of being irritated)
- aksi adj (easily exasperated or excited)
- huysuz adj (capable of being irritated)
- huysuz adj (easily exasperated or excited)
Ukrainian
1 entries- дратівли́вий adj (easily exasperated or excited)
Zazaki
1 entries- rıkın (diq) adj (easily exasperated or excited)
Sample sentences
11 total sentences available.
I'm really irritable lately. My favorite soccer team is in a slump.
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They are all irritable.
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To have more than one problem before him at one time makes him irritable, upset and exasperated.
Source: tatoeba (847250)
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