irritative

English

Etymology

irritate +‎ -ive

Adjective

irritative (comparative more irritative, superlative most irritative)

1. serving to excite or irritate

   an irritative agent

2. accompanied with, or produced by, increased action or irritation

   an irritative fever

   • 1794–1796, Erasmus Darwin, Zoonomia; or, The Laws of Organic Life, volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC:

     For the irritative ideas of the apparent motions of objects are now excited by irritation from internal stimulus

Noun

irritative (plural irritatives)

1. Any substance causing irritation; an irritant.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “irritative”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

French

Adjective

irritative

1. feminine singular of irritatif

Italian

Adjective

irritative

1. feminine plural of irritativo

Anagrams

• irritatevi, ritiratevi