meaning of irritable
1. Capable of being irriated.
2. Very susceptible of anger or passion; easily inflamed or exasperated; as, an irritable temper.
3. Endowed with irritability; susceptible of irritation; capable of being excited to action by the application of certain stimuli.
4. Susceptible of irritation; unduly sensitive to irritants or stimuli. See Irritation, n. , 3.
5. easily irritated or annoyed; "an incorrigibly fractious young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his
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