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What is the adjective for irritability?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb irritate which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

irritable
  1. Capable of being irritated.
  2. Easily exasperated or excited.
  3. Responsive to stimuli.
  4. Synonyms:
      5. angry, cranky, cross, grumpy, irascible, sulky, tense, testy, uptight, critical, fiery, fractious, fretful, grouchy, peevish, petulant, ratty, surly, temperamental, touchy, argumentative, bristly, cantankerous, choleric, crabby, curt, disgruntled, feisty, glum, gruff, huffish, huffy, impatient, moody, prickly, querulous, sensitive, shirty, snappy, sullen, unsociable, volatile, whingy, bilious, bitter, brusque, chippy, contentious, crabbed, cynical … more
  5. Examples:
      6. “A constipated body can lead to a constipated mind, causing us to feel moody and irritable.”
      “Have you ever noticed that one of your colleagues is particularly irritable, difficult to work with or perhaps even a hyperactive time-waster?”
      “She haltered the strangely docile stallion and tied him up in the tie racks, next to an extremely irritable paint gelding being groomed.”
irritating
  1. Causing irritation, annoyance or pain.
  2. Stimulating or exciting a response.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. annoying, aggravating, bothersome, vexatious, vexing, exasperating, irksome, galling, maddening, disturbing, rankling, pesky, trying, infuriating, provoking, riling, abrasive, frustrating, tiresome, upsetting, nettlesome, peeving, chafing, carking, nettling, disquieting, pestiferous, displeasing, pestilent, plaguy, pestilential, nagging, grating, infernal, confounded, rebarbative, pesty, plaguey, cussed, accursed, nauseating, troublesome, unpleasant, disagreeable, troubling, distressing, wearisome, harassing, difficult, worrisome … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “She has an irritating voice which is not offset by special mannerisms or eccentricities.”
      “Emma scrubbed away the irritating spines of some velvety pods her bare arm had brushed against during the afternoon.”
      “Regardless, a little trip up the Peloponese to Epidavros might mollify Eros and relieve me of Lena and her irritating demands.”
irritant
  1. Causing irritation or inflammation.
  2. (law, Scotland) Rendering null and void; conditionally invalidating.
irritative
  1. serving to excite or irritate
  2. accompanied with, or produced by, increased action or irritation
  3. Examples:
      4. “At the same time the irritative fever and hectic hitherto so much dreaded in large abscesses are, with perfect security, entirely avoided.”
      “Patients may also have chills, myalgias, arthralgias, dysuria and irritative urinary symptoms.”
      “Other presentations include irritative voiding, discharge of mucous blood or pus from the umbilicus, and obstructive symptoms.”
irritated
  1. Experiencing a feeling of irritation.
  2. (pathology) Inflamed and painful.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. annoyed, angry, exasperated, vexed, irked, peeved, furious, cross, irate, incensed, enraged, riled, infuriated, piqued, displeased, disgruntled, aggravated, resentful, mad, angered, sore, aggrieved, miffed, narked, wrathful, galled, nettled, choleric, bothered, ireful, shirty, provoked, testy, huffy, irritable, maddened, eggy, ruffled, scunnered, disturbed, troubled, miffy, ratty, crook, snaky, impatient, harassed, snuffy, vex, flustered … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “I am still royally irritated by the elimination of his character in favor of this macho posturer.”
irritatable
  1. Capable of being irritated; irritable.
irritational
  1. Relating to irritation.
irritatory
  1. Producing irritation.
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