IRRITABLE

a.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Capable of being irriated.

2.
a.

Very susceptible of anger or passion; easily inflamed or exasperated; as, an irritable temper. Vicious, old, and irritable. Tennyson.

3.
a.

Endowed with irritability; susceptible of irritation; capable of being excited to action by the application of certain stimuli.

4.
a.

Susceptible of irritation; unduly sensitive to irritants or stimuli. See Irritation, n., 3.