Definition for Irritating:

• Exciting; causing irritation.

Synonyms for Irritating:

• adj.

  •aggravating (adjective)
  • annoying,
  • teasing,
  • Enraging,
  • aggravating,
  • vexing,
  • Harassing,
  • inflaming,
  • infuriating,
  • exasperating,
  • grating,
  • Bedeviling,
  • exacerbating,
  • tormenting,
  • pestering,
  • antagonizing.
  •all (adjective)
  • painful.
  •galling (adjective)
  • galling,
  • Plaguing,
  • unpalatable.
  •nerve-racking (adjective)
  • stressful.
  •offensive (adjective)
  • offensive.
  •painful (adjective)
  • acute,
  • harrowing,
  • burdensome,
  • excruciating,
  • severe,
  • aching,
  • unbearable,
  • oppressive,
  • smarting,
  • cutting,
  • grueling,
  • Cramping,
  • stinging,
  • grievous,
  • biting,
  • insufferable,
  • cruel,
  • bitter,
  • throbbing,
  • horrendous,
  • sore,
  • crushing,
  • stabbing,
  • anguishing,
  • miserable,
  • hurtful,
  • odious,
  • arduous,
  • woeful,
  • wrenching,
  • distressful,
  • Besetting,
  • Gnawing,
  • withering,
  • piercing,
  • torturing,
  • unpleasant,
  • agonizing.

• n.

  •
  • pain.
  •irritating (noun)
  • pestiferous,
  • nettlesome,
  • plaguey,
  • plaguy,
  • irritative,
  • disagreeable,
  • pesky,
  • stimulative.

• v.

  •aggravating (verb)
  • Harrying,
  • nagging,
  • Arousing,
  • peeving,
  • badgering,
  • Envenoming,
  • baiting,
  • Discomposing,
  • troubling,
  • needling.
  •chafing (verb)
  • Abrading,
  • rasping,
  • scraping,
  • Resisting,
  • chafing,
  • wearing,
  • grinding,
  • scrubbing,
  • rubbing,
  • Fretting.
  •displeasing (verb)
  • repelling,
  • Aggrieving,
  • Scandalizing,
  • Angering,
  • shocking,
  • disappointing,
  • provoking,
  • jarring,
  • offending,
  • disgusting,
  • Riling,
  • displeasing.
  •irritating (verb)
  • irking,
  • Piquing,
  • hassling,
  • Bothering,
  • acerbating.
  •paining (verb)
  • suffering,
  • racking,
  • Afflicting,
  • Discomforting,
  • hurting,
  • distressing,
  • stitching,
  • Paining.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • silly,
  • invasive,
  • sour,
  • damnable.
  •
  • abrasive.
  •disturbing
  • grain.
  •Other relevant words:
  • rouse,
  • nerve-wracking,
  • perversive,
  • onerous,
  • rough,
  • get,
  • excoriating,
  • Capturing,
  • abominable,
  • inconvenient,
  • techy,
  • tough,
  • lambasting,
  • dumbfounding,
  • incurring,
  • disconcert,
  • starting,
  • developing,
  • invidious,
  • impolite,
  • irritate,
  • displeasure,
  • draining,
  • hassle,
  • rascally,
  • Fathering,
  • irritant,
  • aggravate,
  • awful,
  • excite,
  • poignant,
  • outrageous,
  • disadvantageous,
  • acid,
  • testy,
  • weary,
  • Carking,
  • wicked,
  • inexpedient,
  • Unapt,
  • maddening,
  • goading,
  • bewildering,
  • maddeningly,
  • roguish,
  • cranky,
  • inconvenience,
  • stimulating,
  • harassment,
  • afflictive,
  • Nettling,
  • rude,
  • pettish,
  • provocation,
  • excitatory,
  • unfitting,
  • tactless,
  • disgruntling,
  • awkward,
  • Disrupting,
  • taunting,
  • imprudent,
  • nasty,
  • reaching,
  • raucous,
  • exacerbate,
  • plug,
  • conveying,
  • stimulate,
  • sharp,
  • perplexing,
  • unwise,
  • unseemly,
  • niggling,
  • anger,
  • rousing,
  • unsavoury,
  • tickling,
  • acerbic,
  • harass,
  • Escharotic,
  • Sustaining,
  • humiliating,
  • naughty,
  • intensify,
  • fetching,
  • Incensement,
  • annoyance,
  • Inciting,
  • insulting,
  • purchasing,
  • mortifying,
  • petulant,
  • Experiencing,
  • Crucifying,
  • prickly,
  • dispiriting,
  • firing,
  • worsen,
  • challenging,
  • tiring,
  • Deviling,
  • itchy,
  • ill timed,
  • dreadful,
  • challenge,
  • Molesting,
  • Rebuking,
  • ill-conceived,
  • agitating,
  • devilish,
  • Fatiguing,
  • untimely,
  • Producing,
  • disturbance,
  • unrefined,
  • pestilential,
  • displease,
  • arouse,
  • exasperation,
  • baffling,
  • Fraying,
  • tiresome,
  • plaguesome,
  • wrath,
  • harry,
  • stimulatory,
  • Nonplussing,
  • obnoxious,
  • accessing,
  • Ruffling,
  • scratchy,
  • inappropriate,
  • peevish,
  • bugging,
  • exacerbation,
  • rallying,
  • stupefying,
  • provocative,
  • wake,
  • horrid,
  • provoke,
  • worrying,
  • uncalled-for,
  • instigation,
  • unwieldy,
  • wearisome,
  • unbecoming,
  • astringent,
  • Importune,
  • austere,
  • berating,
  • acquiring,
  • inconveniencing,
  • alienating,
  • Aiming,
  • fillip,
  • irritatingly,
  • aggravation,
  • Commencing,
  • itching,
  • coding,
  • discordant,
  • indelicate,
  • boorish,
  • hard,
  • whet,
  • pungent,
  • contentious,
  • Asperous,
  • incitement,
  • amazing,
  • tantalizing,
  • Scampish,
  • contracting,
  • Jading,
  • trenchant,
  • temper,
  • Receiving,
  • agitate,
  • unladylike,
  • unsuitable,
  • fractious,
  • scolding,
  • boring,
  • demanding,
  • Remonstrating,
  • inopportune,
  • Engendering,
  • cumbersome,
  • Jawing,
  • distasteful,
  • unappetizing,
  • Roughening,
  • unharmonious,
  • unwarranted,
  • Reprimanding,
  • exasperatingly,
  • Devilling,
  • vex,
  • lecturing,
  • rebarbative,
  • mordant,
  • arriving,
  • foment,
  • innervate,
  • tedious,
  • Discommoding,
  • hostile,
  • impish,
  • stupid,
  • uninteresting,
  • scramming,
  • Aggravative,
  • exciting,
  • unwelcome,
  • disturb,
  • goad,
  • botheration,
  • analeptic,
  • inflame,
  • Dunning,
  • hype,
  • ungentlemanly,
  • raging,
  • quicken,
  • mischievous,
  • disobliging,
  • penetrating,
  • irritation,
  • strident,
  • quizzical,
  • nuisance,
  • taxing,
  • Siring,
  • peckish,
  • exasperate,
  • tantalising,
  • sharpen,
  • excitant,
  • keen,
  • pesty,
  • tetchy,
  • piquant,
  • stimulant,
  • improper,
  • stir,
  • puzzling,
  • Incommoding,
  • atrocious,
  • incite,
  • trouncing,
  • excitement,
  • vitriolic,
  • importunate,
  • Fomenting,
  • puckish,
  • irritable,
  • unaccommodating,
  • offend,
  • enrage,
  • corruptive,
  • causing,
  • fixing,
  • indecorous,
  • dissonant,
  • Graveling,
  • incensing,
  • Mothering,
  • terrible,
  • wearying,
  • Bedevilling,
  • annoy,
  • pestilent,
  • frustrating,
  • untactful,
  • arresting,
  • caustic,
  • harsh,
  • undiplomatic,
  • instigate,
  • unspeakable,
  • sly,
  • wounding,
  • foolish,
  • Obtaining,
  • stimulus,
  • Generating,
  • annoyingly,
  • defy,
  • mocking,
  • inducing,
  • mystifying.

Paraphrases for Irritating:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    annoying.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    annoying.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    vexatious, annoyed, awkward, boring.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    stimulating, upsetting, provoking, spurring, fuelling, Boosting.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    irritant, galling, disturbing, frustrating, unnerving, embarrassing, inconvenient, Irksome, vexing, disruptive, infuriating.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    irritant.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    exasperating.

Antonyms for Irritating:

• adj.

  • Other antonyms:
    silky, comfy, silken, comfortable, depressant.