What is another word for irritable?
634 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ ˈɪɹɪtəbə͡l], [ ˈɪɹɪtəbəl], [ ˈɪ_ɹ_ɪ_t_ə_b_əl]Table of Contents
Similar words for irritable:- all (adjective)
- angry (adjective)
- bad-tempered (adjective)
- brittle (adjective)
- cantankerous (adjective)
- captious (adjective)
- crabby/crabbed (adjective)
- cranky (adjective)
- cross (adjective)
- crotchety (adjective)
- difficult (adjective)
- disgruntled (adjective)
- edgy (adjective)
- excitable (adjective)
- fiery (adjective)
- grumbling (adjective)
- hidebound (adjective)
- huffy (adjective)
- ill-natured (adjective)
- ill-tempered (adjective)
- impatient (adjective)
- impolite (adjective)
- intolerant (adjective)
- irascible (adjective)
- irritable (adjective)
- mean (adjective)
- moody (adjective)
- morose (adjective)
- nervous (adjective)
- ornery (adjective)
- passionate (adjective)
- perverse (adjective)
- petulant (adjective)
- pugnacious (adjective)
- quarrelsome (adjective)
- querulous (adjective)
- quick-tempered (adjective)
- sensitive (adjective)
- short-tempered (adjective)
- sour (adjective)
- sulky (adjective)
- sullen (adjective)
- temperamental (adjective)
- touchy (adjective)
- twitchy (adjective)
- uneasy (adjective)
- other synonyms
- brusque
- cross
- discontented
- ill-humored
- nervous
- protective
- sulky
Synonyms for Irritable:
adj.
•all (adjective) •angry (adjective)- enraged,
- ferocious,
- heated,
- chafed,
- indignant,
- sore,
- irate,
- nettled,
- offended,
- exacerbated,
- galled,
- Fuming,
- hateful,
- Convulsed,
- passionate,
- infuriated,
- displeased,
- inflamed,
- provoked,
- outraged,
- Piqued,
- irritated,
- impassioned,
- splenetic,
- incensed,
- affronted,
- vexed,
- furious,
- sulky,
- bitter,
- raging,
- wrathful,
- turbulent,
- riled,
- Storming,
- ireful,
- maddened,
- Antagonized,
- fierce.
- disparaging,
- acrimonious,
- caviling,
- exacting,
- severe,
- overcritical,
- Fault-finding,
- sarcastic,
- deprecating.
- brusque,
- tough,
- awkward,
- unsociable,
- acid,
- misanthropic,
- tart,
- acrid,
- cynical,
- saturnine,
- glum,
- blunt,
- churlish,
- trying,
- harsh.
- grim,
- unaccommodating,
- dark,
- hard to please,
- argumentative,
- rude,
- troublesome,
- boorish,
- oafish,
- tiresome,
- refractory,
- fastidious,
- intractable,
- unamenable,
- rigid.
- more griping,
- most crabbing,
- dis satisfied,
- more grousing,
- un-gratified,
- dis-content,
- more bellyaching,
- dis-contented,
- uncontent,
- most bellyaching,
- more ungratified,
- dis appointed,
- most grousing,
- most kicking,
- most malcontented,
- most discontented,
- dis-appointed,
- most kvetching,
- more uncontent,
- more crabbing,
- dis contented,
- more kicking,
- more malcontented,
- more kvetching,
- un content,
- un gratified,
- bad tempered,
- most uncontent,
- most griping,
- most ungratified,
- dis content,
- un-content,
- dis-satisfied.
- ex-citable,
- highstrung,
- ex cited,
- high strung,
- ill ease,
- excitable,
- ex citable,
- most overstrung,
- over strung,
- over-strung,
- overstrung,
- more overstrung,
- ex-cited.
- fragile,
- ardent,
- volcanic,
- tempestuous,
- volatile,
- stormy,
- high-strung,
- reckless,
- combustible,
- emotional,
- rash,
- sensitive,
- explosive,
- impulsive.
- in-tensest,
- most flaring,
- more flaring,
- more hot headed,
- more hot-headed,
- in tenser,
- most agitable,
- ignited,
- most precipitate,
- flickering,
- in tense,
- most hot-headed,
- most ignited,
- hot headed,
- hot blooded,
- most alight,
- most aflame,
- more ignited,
- most igneous,
- more aflame,
- hot-blooded,
- most hot headed,
- more agitable,
- more alight,
- more igneous,
- in-tenser,
- in-tense,
- un-restrained.
- un-kinder,
- un friendliest,
- ill natured,
- un pleasant,
- illnatured,
- more tempersome,
- un kindest,
- un kind,
- dis-obliging,
- un kinder,
- un-friendlier,
- most tempersome,
- un-kind,
- tempersome,
- un-pleasant,
- un friendlier,
- un-friendly,
- un-kindest,
- dis obliging,
- un-friendliest.
- on pins needles,
- unindulgent,
- head long,
- thirsty,
- most appetent,
- more straining,
- more unindulgent,
- racing one motor,
- more appetent,
- un-indulgent,
- un indulgent,
- more chafing,
- racing ones motor,
- ripe,
- headlong,
- racing motor,
- most unindulgent,
- racing one's motor,
- most chafing,
- head-long,
- most straining.
- dis gracious,
- most bad-mannered,
- dis-respectful,
- un civil,
- in-delicate,
- in delicate,
- un mannered,
- in-solent,
- dis-courteous,
- most bad mannered,
- un-civil,
- more ill-bred,
- in solent,
- ill bred,
- more badmannered,
- dis courteous,
- un refined,
- most badmannered,
- un gracious,
- in decorous,
- un-mannerly,
- bad mannered,
- more illbred,
- most ill-bred,
- most illbred,
- un mannerly,
- most ill bred,
- more disgracious,
- un-gracious,
- dis-gracious,
- more bad mannered,
- in-decorous,
- un-mannered,
- ill mannered,
- badmannered,
- most disgracious,
- dis respectful,
- more bad-mannered,
- un-refined,
- more ill bred,
- illmannered.
- more worked up,
- in tolerant,
- most xenophobic,
- most shortfuse,
- more worked-up,
- most short-fuse,
- narrow minded,
- in-flexible,
- more short fuse,
- most worked-up,
- most communist,
- un fairer,
- in flexible,
- anti pathetic,
- un fairest,
- most short fuse,
- most racialist,
- more xenophobic,
- most worked up,
- xenophobic,
- un sympathetic,
- more workedup,
- more communist,
- un-charitable,
- onesided,
- un willing,
- more shortfuse,
- up-set,
- in-tolerant,
- un fair,
- more tilted,
- un-willing,
- one sided,
- un-fairest,
- smallminded,
- shortfuse,
- most tilted,
- more chauvinistic,
- un-fair,
- small minded,
- most workedup,
- individualistic,
- more racialist,
- workedup,
- more short-fuse,
- un charitable,
- un-fairer,
- most chauvinistic,
- anti-pathetic,
- tilted,
- narrowminded.
- brooding,
- Fretting,
- acerbic,
- caustic,
- choleric,
- disputatious,
- annoyed,
- Snarling,
- gloomy,
- contentious,
- easily offended,
- petty,
- bitchy,
- hasty,
- ill-humored,
- resentful,
- spiteful,
- dissatisfied,
- hotheaded,
- tense,
- oversensitive,
- hot,
- exasperated,
- bellicose,
- carping,
- plaintive.
- more flustered,
- more spooked,
- worried,
- fidgety,
- most flustered,
- most spooked,
- most unrestful,
- unstrung,
- dis tressed,
- dis-tressed,
- un-restful,
- un strung,
- more nervous,
- taut,
- most ruffled,
- more unrestful,
- un-strung,
- un restful,
- more ruffled.
- more steamedup,
- most steamed-up,
- more steamed-up,
- steamedup,
- more steamed up,
- most steamed up,
- most steamedup.
- un healthiest,
- un-yielding,
- dis-obedient,
- dis obedient,
- most selfwilled,
- most self willed,
- most self-willed,
- un reasonable,
- more self-willed,
- un-reasonable,
- un-healthy,
- more selfwilled,
- un-healthiest,
- de-generate,
- de generate,
- un healthy,
- un healthier,
- un yielding,
- self willed,
- more self willed,
- selfwilled.
- more crybaby,
- whiny,
- whiniest,
- more pouting,
- most pouting,
- more whining,
- most whining,
- most crybaby,
- whinier.
- more cat-and-dog,
- cat and dog,
- warrest,
- most gladiatorial,
- most ructious,
- most dissentious,
- more dissentious,
- most cat and dog,
- have chip on shoulder,
- have chip shoulder,
- more ructious,
- most cat-and-dog,
- more cat and dog,
- more gladiatorial.
- Susceptive,
- sensory,
- sour-bellied,
- easily affected,
- having a short fuse,
- sensile,
- tuned in,
- sensatory,
- pickle-pussed,
- thin-skinned,
- reactive,
- supersensitive,
- touchy feely,
- turned on to,
- emotionable,
- hypersensitive.
- more shortfused,
- more short-fused,
- most shortfused,
- shorttempered,
- most short fused,
- most short-fused,
- most peckish,
- shortfused,
- short tempered,
- more peckish,
- more short fused.
- dis-pleasing,
- un-happy,
- most grudging,
- dis pleasing,
- un happier,
- un happy,
- un-generous,
- un happiest,
- un generous,
- more grudging.
- more sulking,
- de-pressed,
- with-drawn,
- with drawn,
- more sourpussed,
- most brooding,
- more brooding,
- poutier,
- poutiest,
- de pressed,
- most sulking,
- most sourpussed.
- more perturbable,
- wired up,
- un safe,
- bundle nerves,
- un safest,
- un-safer,
- un-safest,
- un-safe,
- un safer,
- most perturbable.
- more discomposed,
- most dismayed,
- more dismayed,
- dis-quieted,
- un settled,
- dis composed,
- in securer,
- most harassed,
- more tormented,
- most discomposed,
- in-securest,
- most palpitant,
- more palpitant,
- un quiet,
- in-secure,
- un quietest,
- un-easier,
- more anguished,
- un-quiet,
- un-quietest,
- un quieter,
- un-easiest,
- in securest,
- un easy,
- dis-mayed,
- in secure,
- most tormented,
- more disquieted,
- un easiest,
- un-easy,
- dis mayed,
- dis-composed,
- on qui vive,
- un easier,
- un-quieter,
- in-securer,
- more harassed,
- most anguished,
- most disquieted,
- harassed,
- un-settled,
- dis quieted.
n.
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- crabby,
- out of sorts,
- grouchy,
- attitude,
- mean,
- snappy,
- ugly,
- nasty,
- ill-tempered,
- fretful.
Other synonyms:
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- hypercritical,
- judgmental,
- curmudgeonly,
- nagging,
- peppery,
- jaundiced,
- pedantic,
- insatiable,
- complaining,
- picky,
- unforgiving,
- obstreperous,
- fussy,
- choosy,
- pernickety,
- painful,
- high-maintenance,
- censorious,
- uneasy,
- bad-tempered,
- pedantry,
- disagreeable.
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- demanding,
- uptight,
- foul,
- bilious,
- persnickety,
- ticklish,
- unfriendly,
- ratty,
- miserable,
- finicky.
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- impossible,
- particular.
- edge.
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Antonyms for Irritable:
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adj.
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cantankerous
good-natured, easy, pleasant.
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captious
flattering, complimentary, Commendatory, encouraging, praising, laudatory.
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cranky
amiable.
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cross
animated.
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Other antonyms:
long-suffering, insensitive, forbearing, cordial, patient, happy-go-lucky, understanding, companionable, obliging, well-disposed, extroverted, stoic, uncomplaining, easygoing, gregarious, tolerant, carefree, outgoing.
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cantankerous
