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English
Etymology
Borrowed from French irritable, from Latin irritabilis.
Pronunciation
Adjective
irritable (comparative more irritable, superlative most irritable)
- Capable of being irritated.
- Easily exasperated or excited.
an irritable old man
- (medicine) Responsive to stimuli.
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Translations
capable of being irritated
- Bulgarian: раздразнителен (bg) (razdraznitelen)
- Catalan: irritable (ca)
- Esperanto: incitebla, incitiĝema
- Finnish: ärtyvä (fi)
- French: irritable (fr)
- German: reizbar (de)
- Irish: greannaitheach
- Kabuverdianu: iradu
- Macedonian: раздразлив (razdrazliv), надразлив (nadrazliv)
- Maori: āritarita, kiriweti, pukukino, ārita, amowheke, whanewhane, mānehenehe
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: irritabel
- Nynorsk: irritabel
- Ottoman Turkish: تتیز (titiz), خرچین (hırçın)
- Romanian: iritabil (ro)
- Russian: раздражи́тельный (ru) (razdražítelʹnyj)
- Scots: carnaptious
- Scottish Gaelic: crosta, gruamach, dranndanach
- Slovak: prchký
- Spanish: irritable (es)
- Turkish: hırçın (tr), huysuz (tr), aksi (tr)
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easily exasperated or excited
Catalan
Pronunciation
Adjective
irritable m or f (masculine and feminine plural irritables)
- irritable
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Danish
Adjective
irritable
- definite of irritabel
- plural of irritabel
French
Adjective
irritable (plural irritables)
- irritable
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Norwegian Bokmål
Adjective
irritable
- definite singular of irritabel
- plural of irritabel
Norwegian Nynorsk
Adjective
irritable
- definite singular of irritabel
- plural of irritabel
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin irrītābilis. Cognate with English irritable.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /iriˈtable/
- Rhymes: -able
- Syllabification: i‧rri‧ta‧ble
Adjective
irritable m or f (masculine and feminine plural irritables)
- irritable, cranky, testy, tetchy, prickly, snappy, snarky, irritated
Derived terms
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