IRRITATED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does irritated mean? 

• IRRITATED (adjective)
  The adjective IRRITATED has 1 sense:

1. aroused to impatience or anger

  Familiarity information: IRRITATED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IRRITATED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Aroused to impatience or anger

Synonyms:

annoyed; irritated; miffed; nettled; peeved; pissed; pissed off; riled; roiled; steamed; stung

Context example:

roiled by the delay

Similar:

displeased (not pleased; experiencing or manifesting displeasure)

 Context examples 

Their presence perturbed him, and the effort of conversation irritated him.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Amy teased Jo, and Jo irritated Amy, and semioccasional explosions occurred, of which both were much ashamed afterward.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Had the late Mr. Darcy liked me less, his son might have borne with me better; but his father's uncommon attachment to me irritated him, I believe, very early in life.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

But he shook my hand off with an irritated movement, and for a long time I stood by his side in silence.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I was growing truly irritated: happily, Adele ran in.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He found he could not be useful, and his feelings were too much irritated for talking.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

“Foul play!” cried the lawyer, a good deal frightened and rather inclined to be irritated in consequence.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

A question about whether others are irritated by an individual's eating problem.

(Others Irritated by My Eating Problem, NCI Thesaurus)

Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI) Does the patient get irritated and easily disturbed?

(NPI - Get Irritated and Easily Disturbed, NCI Thesaurus)

He was kept chained in a pen at the rear of the fort, and here Beauty Smith teased and irritated and drove him wild with petty torments.

(White Fang, by Jack London)