irritating

English

Pronunciation

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Adjective

irritating (comparative more irritating, superlative most irritating)

1. Causing irritation, annoyance or pain.

   irritating bureaucracy

   irritating music

   irritating person

   irritating sounds

2. Stimulating or exciting a response.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:annoying

Derived terms

• irritainment
• irritatingly
• nonirritating
• unirritating

Translations

causing irritation, annoyance or pain

• Azerbaijani: qıcıqlandırıcı
• Bikol:

  Central Bikol: makaurag

• Catalan: irritant (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: ^{(please verify)} 煩 / 烦 (zh) (fán), ^{(please verify)} 令人討厭 / 令人讨厌 (lìngrén tǎoyàn)

• Dutch: irritant (nl)
• Esperanto: iritanta
• Finnish: ärsyttävä (fi), harmittava (fi)
• French: énervant (fr)
• Galician: irritante (gl)
• Greek: εκνευριστικός (el) (eknevristikós)
• Latin: molestus
• Māori: hīrawerawe
• Norwegian: irritende, irriterende (no)
• Polish: irytujący (pl)
• Russian: раздража́ющий (ru) (razdražájuščij)
• Spanish: irritante (es)
• Swedish: irriterande (sv)
• Tagalog: nakakainis
• Tày: cài coọc
• Thai: คาย (th) (kaai)
• Ukrainian: дратівли́вий (drativlývyj)
• Vietnamese: ngứa (vi)

Stimulates or exciting a response

• Swedish: irriterande (sv)

Verb

irritating

1. present participle and gerund of irritate