Thesaurus:irritable
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English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]Sense: easily annoyed or irritated
[edit]Synonyms
[edit]- atrabilious
- bad-tempered
- bilious
- bitchy (vulgar, colloquial)
- brainish
- cantankerous
- carnaptious (UK dialect, Ireland)
- crabbit (Scotland)
- crabby
- cranky
- crotchety
- dyspeptic
- edgy (dated)
- fantoddish
- fiery
- fretful
- grumpy
- grotchy (fandom slang)
- grouchy
- hissy
- hot-livered (archaic)
- hot-tempered
- hotheaded
- huffy
- humpy
- ill-natured
- ill-tempered
- irascible
- irritable
- out of sorts
- ornery (chiefly US)}
- peevish [⇒ thesaurus]
- pettish
- petulant
- prickly
- quick-tempered
- querulous
- raspy
- ratty (originally Britain, informal)
- short-tempered
- snappish
- snappy
- snippety
- snippish
- snippy
- snitchy
- splenetic
- stressy
- surly
- testy
- tetchy
- tetty (obsolete)
- thin-skinned
- thorny
- touchy
- twitchy (figuratively)
- umbrageous (figuratively)
- waspish
Antonyms
[edit]Hyponyms
[edit]Hypernyms
[edit]Various
[edit]See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “825. Excitability” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “901. Irascibility” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “irritable” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.