Synonyms for Irritating

Synonyms for "irritating" (90 found)

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Closest matches (18)

irritative pestiferous acerbic acid acrid aggravating aggravative annoying asperous astringent biting bitter bothering bothersome caustic chafing

Adjective(2 words)

annoying bothersome

Strong matches (27)

contentious cutting disturbing escharotic exasperating exasperative fretting galling grating grinding harassing harsh importunate importune inconvenient irking irksome irritant keen mordant

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niggling nose tickling nose-tickling

Adjective(3 words)

galling irritative nettlesome

Adjective(1 words)

obnoxious

Related words (45)

Related word relations

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5 relation types

Synonyms

2 entries

irritative pestiferous

derived

4 entries

irritainment irritatingly nonirritating unirritating

form of

1 entries

irritate

related to

7 entries

annoyance excite irritate irritation pain response stimulate

similar

4 entries

disagreeable stimulative uncomfortable

Translations

24 translations across 21 languages.

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Azerbaijani

1 entries

qıcıqlandırıcı adj (causing irritation, annoyance or pain)

Bikol Central

1 entries

makaurag adj (causing irritation, annoyance or pain)

Catalan

1 entries

irritant adj (causing irritation, annoyance or pain)

Dutch

1 entries

irritant adj (causing irritation, annoyance or pain)

Esperanto

1 entries

iritanta adj (causing irritation, annoyance or pain)

Finnish

2 entries

harmittava adj (causing irritation, annoyance or pain)
ärsyttävä adj (causing irritation, annoyance or pain)

French

1 entries

énervant adj (causing irritation, annoyance or pain)

Galician

1 entries

irritante adj (causing irritation, annoyance or pain)

Greek

1 entries

εκνευριστικός adj (causing irritation, annoyance or pain)

Latin

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molestus adj (causing irritation, annoyance or pain)

Māori

1 entries

hīrawerawe adj (causing irritation, annoyance or pain)

Norwegian

2 entries

irritende adj (causing irritation, annoyance or pain)
irriterende adj (causing irritation, annoyance or pain)

Polish

1 entries

irytujący adj (causing irritation, annoyance or pain)

Russian

1 entries

раздража́ющий adj (causing irritation, annoyance or pain)

Spanish

1 entries

irritante adj (causing irritation, annoyance or pain)

Swedish

2 entries

irriterande adj (causing irritation, annoyance or pain)
irriterande adj (Stimulates or exciting a response)

Tagalog

1 entries

nakakainis adj (causing irritation, annoyance or pain)

Thai

1 entries

คาย adj (causing irritation, annoyance or pain)

Tày

1 entries

cài coọc adj (causing irritation, annoyance or pain)

Ukrainian

1 entries

дратівли́вий adj (causing irritation, annoyance or pain)

Vietnamese

1 entries

ngứa adj (causing irritation, annoyance or pain)

Sample sentences

14 total sentences available.

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He is a very irritating critic of others.

Source: tatoeba (274690)

Far from irritating my skin it was better than before I used it.

Source: tatoeba (327913)

I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere.

Source: tatoeba (549628)

Since there are usually multiple websites on any given topic, I usually just click the back button when I arrive on any webpage that has pop-up advertising. I just go to the next page found by Google and hope for something less irritating.

Source: tatoeba (954270)

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