irritate

English

Etymology

From Latin irritatus, past participle of irritare (“to excite, irritate, incite, stimulate”)

Pronunciation

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Verb

irritate (third-person singular simple present irritates, present participle irritating, simple past and past participle irritated)

1. (transitive) To provoke impatience, anger, or displeasure.
2. (transitive) To introduce irritability.
3. (intransitive) To cause or induce displeasure or irritation.
4. (transitive) To induce pain in (all or part of a body or organism).
5. (obsolete) To render null and void.

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Synonyms

• provoke
• rile

Antonyms

• please

Related terms

• irritation
• irritative
• irritatory

Translations

to cause or induce displeasure or irritation

• Bengali: জ্বালাতন করা (bn)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 激怒 (cmn) (jīnù), 刺激 (cmn) (cìjī)

• Czech: dráždit (cs)
• Dutch: irriteren (nl)
• Esperanto: agaci (eo)
• Finnish: ärsyttää (fi), vituttaa (fi), nyppiä (fi), tympiä (fi), harmittaa (fi), vaivata (fi)
• French: agacer (displeasure)

• German: reizen (de)
• Italian: irritare (it)
• Polish: drażnić (pl), rozdrażniać (pl)
• Portuguese: irritar (pt)
• Romanian: irita (ro), enerva (ro), agasa (ro), sâcâi (ro)
• Russian: раздражать (ru) (razdražát')
• Turkish: kızdırmak (tr), öfkelendirmek (tr), sinirlendirmek (tr), sinir etmek (tr), sinirini bozmak (tr), gıcık etmek (tr), tahriş etmek (tr), kaşındırmak (tr)

See also

• exasperate
• peeve
• disturb

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Italian

Adjective

irritate f pl

1. feminine plural of irritato

Verb

irritate

1. second-person plural present tense of irritare
2. second-person plural imperative of irritare
3. feminine plural past participle of irritare

Anagrams

• arteriti
• atterrii
• irretita
• ritirate
• tiritera
• triterai

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Latin

Verb

irrītāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of irrītō