irritable

/ˈɪɹɪtəbl̩/

Etymology Borrowed from French irritable, from Latin irritabilis.

Synonyms

63 terms

atrabilious, bad-tempered, bilious, bitchy, brainish, cantankerous, carnaptious, choleric, crabbit, crabby, cranky, crotchety, dyspeptic, edgy, fantoddish, fiery, fractious, fretful, grumpy, grotchy, grouchy, hissy, hot-livered, hot-tempered, hotheaded, huffy, humpy, ill-natured, ill-tempered, irascible, irritable, liverish, out of sorts, ornery (chiefly US)}, peevish, pettish, petulant, prickly, quick-tempered, querulous, raspy, ratty, short-tempered, snappish, snappy, snippety, snippish, snippy, snitchy, splenetic, stressy, surly, temperamental, testy, tetchy, tetty, thin-skinned, thorny, touchy, twitchy, umbrageous, volatile, waspish

Antonyms

calm, imperturbable, serene

Derived terms

hyperirritable, inirritable, irritability, irritable bowel syndrome, irritable heart, irritable male syndrome, irritableness, irritably, nonirritable, superirritable, unirritable

Related terms

like a bear with a sore head, on edge, combative, quarrelsome

Hypernyms

enthusiastic, passionate

Hyponyms

hyperirritable, snarkcastic