irritable

irritable
    adj 1: easily irritated or annoyed; "an incorrigibly fractious
           young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen"
           [syn: {cranky}, {fractious}, {irritable}, {nettlesome},
           {peevish}, {peckish}, {pettish}, {petulant}, {scratchy},
           {testy}, {tetchy}, {techy}]
    2: abnormally sensitive to a stimulus
    3: capable of responding to stimuli [syn: {excitable},
       {irritable}]
    

Irritable \Ir"ri*ta*ble\, a. [L. irritabilis: cf. F. irritable.
   See {Irritate}.]
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   1. Capable of being irritated.
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   2. Very susceptible of anger or passion; easily inflamed or
      exasperated; as, an irritable temper.
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            Vicious, old, and irritable.          --Tennyson.
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   3. (Physiol.) Endowed with irritability; susceptible of
      irritation; capable of being excited to action by the
      application of certain stimuli.
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   4. (Med.) Susceptible of irritation; unduly sensitive to
      irritants or stimuli. See {Irritation}, n., 3.

   Syn: Excitable; irascible; touchy; fretful; peevish.
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122 Moby Thesaurus words for "irritable":
      aggressive, agitable, all nerves, allergic, anaphylactic,
      apprehensive, bad-tempered, bearish, bellicose, belligerent,
      bickering, bitchy, cankered, cantankerous, choleric, churlish,
      combative, crabbed, crabby, cranky, cross, cross-grained,
      crotchety, crusty, cussed, delicate, disagreeable, disputatious,
      divisive, dyspeptic, edgy, emotional, emotionally unstable,
      empathetic, empathic, eristic, eruptive, excitable, explosive,
      factional, factious, fearful, feisty, fractious, fretful,
      frightened, goosy, grouchy, gruff, high-mettled, high-spirited,
      high-strung, highly emotional, huffish, huffy, hyperesthetic,
      hyperpathic, hypersensitive, ill-humored, ill-tempered, impatient,
      inflammable, irascible, itchy, litigious, mean, mettlesome, moody,
      nerves on edge, nervous, nervy, on edge, ornery, overrefined,
      oversensible, oversensitive, overstrung, overtender, panicky,
      partisan, passible, peevish, perturbable, perverse, pettish,
      petulant, pindling, polarizing, polemic, prickly, pugnacious,
      quarrelsome, querulous, raspy, refined, responsive, sensitive,
      short-tempered, shrewish, skittish, snappish, snappy, spiteful,
      spleeny, splenetic, startlish, supersensitive, sympathetic,
      tactful, temperamental, tender, testy, tetchy, thin-skinned,
      ticklish, touchy, ugly, uneasy, volcanic, waspish, whiny,
      wrangling