Definitions for irritated

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irritated ir·ri·tat·ed

Spelling: [ir-i-tey-tid]

IPA: /ˈɪr ɪˌteɪ tɪd/

Irritated is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 206 anagrams from letters in irritated (adeiirrtt).

Definitions for irritated

adjective

1. angered, provoked, or annoyed.
2. inflamed or made raw, as a part of the body.

verb (used with object)

1. to excite to impatience or anger; annoy.
2. Physiology, Biology. to excite (a living system) to some characteristic action or function.
3. Pathology. to bring (a body part) to an abnormally excited or sensitive condition.

verb (used without object)

1. to cause irritation or become irritated.

Origin of irritated

First recorded in 1585-95; irritate + -ed²

Examples for irritated

He was irritated, too, by a suspicion of duplicity in the members of the force.

The Ukip photographer tried to take a picture, which irritated Farage.

“We could kill ourselves,” concludes an irritated member of the crew.

Her push for public hearings on Packwood irritated her Democratic male colleagues along with the Republicans.

These Mohmands had neither been irritated nor interfered with in any way.

irritated members of Congress say that the authorization of the train-and-equip mission is merely about optics.

"You must have something to do," cried Cheppi, in an irritated tone.

She irritated him more and more, not by what she did but by what she was.

Third parties in turn quibbled with his accounts, and he was irritated, but not overly so.

How tense they both had been, how afraid of each other, how she had irritated him!