Synonyms for Irritable:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • irritable,
  • peevish,
  • testy,
  • nettlesome,
  • techy,
  • scratchy,
  • tetchy,
  • fractious.
  •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.
  •bad-tempered (adjective)
  • ill-natured.
  •brittle (adjective)
  • short,
  • curt,
  • stilted,
  • prim,
  • stiff,
  • shortest.
  •cantankerous (adjective)
  • crusty,
  • obstinate,
  • critical,
  • stuffy,
  • contrary,
  • dour,
  • snappish.
  •captious (adjective)
  • disparaging,
  • acrimonious,
  • caviling,
  • exacting,
  • severe,
  • overcritical,
  • Fault-finding,
  • sarcastic,
  • deprecating.
  •crabby/crabbed (adjective)
  • brusque,
  • tough,
  • awkward,
  • unsociable,
  • acid,
  • misanthropic,
  • tart,
  • acrid,
  • cynical,
  • saturnine,
  • glum,
  • blunt,
  • churlish,
  • trying,
  • harsh.
  •cranky (adjective)
  • cussed,
  • hot-tempered.
  •cross (adjective)
  • put out,
  • peeved,
  • jumpy,
  • faultfinding.
  •crotchety (adjective)
  • odd,
  • waspy,
  • eccentric,
  • Crossgrained,
  • cross-grained,
  • unusual,
  • queer.
  •difficult (adjective)
  • grim,
  • unaccommodating,
  • dark,
  • hard to please,
  • argumentative,
  • rude,
  • troublesome,
  • boorish,
  • oafish,
  • tiresome,
  • refractory,
  • fastidious,
  • intractable,
  • unamenable,
  • rigid.
  •disgruntled (adjective)
  • 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.
  •edgy (adjective)
  • ex-citable,
  • highstrung,
  • ex cited,
  • high strung,
  • ill ease,
  • excitable,
  • ex citable,
  • most overstrung,
  • over strung,
  • over-strung,
  • overstrung,
  • more overstrung,
  • ex-cited.
  •excitable (adjective)
  • fragile,
  • ardent,
  • volcanic,
  • tempestuous,
  • volatile,
  • stormy,
  • high-strung,
  • reckless,
  • combustible,
  • emotional,
  • rash,
  • sensitive,
  • explosive,
  • impulsive.
  •fiery (adjective)
  • 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.
  •grumbling (adjective)
  • more moaning,
  • most moaning.
  •hidebound (adjective)
  • close minded,
  • closeminded,
  • hidebound,
  • narrest,
  • narrer.
  •huffy (adjective)
  • miffed,
  • more irked,
  • most irked,
  • more huffish,
  • most huffish,
  • more moping,
  • most moping,
  • huffy.
  •ill-natured (adjective)
  • 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.
  •ill-tempered (adjective)
  • crabbed.
  •impatient (adjective)
  • 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.
  •impolite (adjective)
  • 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.
  •intolerant (adjective)
  • 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.
  •irascible (adjective)
  • ogrer,
  • ogrest.
  •irritable (adjective)
  • 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.
  •mean (adjective)
  • ornery.
  •moody (adjective)
  • down mouth,
  • introspective,
  • in huff,
  • down dumps,
  • down the mouth,
  • down the dumps.
  •morose (adjective)
  • in a blue funk,
  • more perversive,
  • having blahs,
  • singing blues,
  • most perversive.
  •nervous (adjective)
  • 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.
  •ornery (adjective)
  • hardnosed,
  • hard nosed.
  •Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • quick-tempered,
  • perversive,
  • frowning,
  • in a huff,
  • hotblooded,
  • Malcontented,
  • peckish,
  • short-fused,
  • out of humor,
  • bearish,
  • touchy,
  • edgy,
  • steamed-up,
  • hottempered,
  • down in the dumps,
  • in the doldrums,
  • dissentious,
  • sullen,
  • kvetching,
  • Exceptive,
  • Agitable,
  • having the blahs,
  • quarrelsome,
  • snarky,
  • steamed up,
  • in a bad mood,
  • waspish,
  • got up on wrong side of bed,
  • cantankerous,
  • palpitant,
  • short fused,
  • moody,
  • nervous,
  • Hot-headed,
  • ill-bred,
  • grousing,
  • red hot,
  • REDHOT,
  • unforbearing,
  • bad-mannered,
  • on the qui vive,
  • twitchy,
  • shrewish,
  • short-tempered,
  • dyspeptic,
  • keyed up,
  • all wound up,
  • racialist,
  • all shook up,
  • sour,
  • bad-humored,
  • perverse,
  • nit-picking,
  • prickly,
  • ructious,
  • aflame,
  • a bundle of nerves,
  • brittle,
  • querulous,
  • difficult,
  • pouty,
  • illbred,
  • vinegarish,
  • like a bear,
  • over critical,
  • all nerves,
  • Cavillous,
  • anguished,
  • chauvinistic,
  • igneous,
  • over-wrought,
  • impatient,
  • head-strong,
  • Disgracious,
  • on pins and needles,
  • pugnacious,
  • NAR,
  • up set,
  • Perturbable,
  • down in dumps,
  • vinegary,
  • in doldrums,
  • gladiatorial,
  • surly,
  • intolerant,
  • pettish,
  • irascible,
  • huffish,
  • in turmoil,
  • fiery,
  • grumpy,
  • dying to,
  • down in mouth,
  • in blue funk,
  • nasty-tempered,
  • short-fuse,
  • ungratified,
  • captious,
  • angry,
  • in flames,
  • warrer,
  • having blue devils,
  • bundle of nerves,
  • self-willed,
  • crotchety,
  • disgruntled,
  • hot under collar,
  • impolite,
  • unrestful,
  • worked-up,
  • singing the blues,
  • cranky,
  • cat-and-dog,
  • having short fuse,
  • petulant,
  • sourpussed.
  •passionate (adjective)
  • more steamedup,
  • most steamed-up,
  • more steamed-up,
  • steamedup,
  • more steamed up,
  • most steamed up,
  • most steamedup.
  •perverse (adjective)
  • 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.
  •petulant (adjective)
  • more crybaby,
  • whiny,
  • whiniest,
  • more pouting,
  • most pouting,
  • more whining,
  • most whining,
  • most crybaby,
  • whinier.
  •pugnacious (adjective)
  • have bone to pick,
  • ready to fight,
  • self-assertive,
  • itching to fight,
  • have a bone to pick.
  •quarrelsome (adjective)
  • 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.
  •querulous (adjective)
  • Grumbly,
  • huffy irascible,
  • wailing,
  • thin-skinned touchy,
  • out of sorts peevish.
  •quick-tempered (adjective)
  • quicktempered,
  • quick tempered,
  • in-flammable,
  • in flammable.
  •sensitive (adjective)
  • 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.
  •short-tempered (adjective)
  • more shortfused,
  • more short-fused,
  • most shortfused,
  • shorttempered,
  • most short fused,
  • most short-fused,
  • most peckish,
  • shortfused,
  • short tempered,
  • more peckish,
  • more short fused.
  •sour (adjective)
  • dis-pleasing,
  • un-happy,
  • most grudging,
  • dis pleasing,
  • un happier,
  • un happy,
  • un-generous,
  • un happiest,
  • un generous,
  • more grudging.
  •sulky (adjective)
  • more sulking,
  • de-pressed,
  • with-drawn,
  • with drawn,
  • more sourpussed,
  • most brooding,
  • more brooding,
  • poutier,
  • poutiest,
  • de pressed,
  • most sulking,
  • most sourpussed.
  •sullen (adjective)
  • tenebrific.
  •temperamental (adjective)
  • hyper,
  • easily upset,
  • in bad mood.
  •touchy (adjective)
  • more perturbable,
  • wired up,
  • un safe,
  • bundle nerves,
  • un safest,
  • un-safer,
  • un-safest,
  • un-safe,
  • un safer,
  • most perturbable.
  •twitchy (adjective)
  • a bundle nerves.
  •uneasy (adjective)
  • 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.

  •
  • temperamental.
  •
  • crabby,
  • out of sorts,
  • grouchy,
  • attitude,
  • mean,
  • snappy,
  • ugly,
  • nasty,
  • ill-tempered,
  • fretful.
  •Other relevant words: (noun)
  • behaviour.

• v.

  •Other relevant words: (verb)
  • cross,
  • feeling.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • hypercritical,
  • judgmental,
  • curmudgeonly,
  • nagging,
  • peppery,
  • jaundiced,
  • pedantic,
  • insatiable,
  • complaining,
  • picky,
  • unforgiving,
  • obstreperous,
  • fussy,
  • choosy,
  • pernickety,
  • painful,
  • high-maintenance,
  • censorious,
  • uneasy,
  • bad-tempered,
  • pedantry,
  • disagreeable.
  •
  • demanding,
  • uptight,
  • foul,
  • bilious,
  • persnickety,
  • ticklish,
  • unfriendly,
  • ratty,
  • miserable,
  • finicky.
  •
  • impossible,
  • particular.
  •brusque
  • gruff.
  •cross
  • humor.
  •discontented
  • grumbling.
  •ill-humored
  • morose.
  •nervous
  • edge.
  •protective
  • defensive.
  •sulky
  • Mumpish.

Paraphrases for Irritable:

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    excitable, moody.

Antonyms for Irritable:

• adj.

  • angry
    collected, content, calm, joyous, joyful.
  • brittle
    relaxed, resilient.
  • cantankerous
    good-natured, easy, pleasant.
  • captious
    flattering, complimentary, Commendatory, encouraging, praising, laudatory.
  • cranky
    amiable.
  • cross
    animated.
  • difficult
    friendly, sociable.
  • irritable
    happy, cheerful, nice.
  • Other antonyms:
    long-suffering, insensitive, forbearing, cordial, patient, happy-go-lucky, understanding, companionable, obliging, well-disposed, extroverted, stoic, uncomplaining, easygoing, gregarious, tolerant, carefree, outgoing.