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# irritable

«irritable» in Mova's school dictionary: **Easily annoyed or made angry; grumpy** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (irritable, more irritable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Easily annoyed or made angry; grumpy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/irritable/#m1)

2) (medicine) Sore or sensitive, as in «irritable skin». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/irritable/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life and stories: people are irritable when tired, hungry («hangry») or ill. In health lessons: lack of sleep makes you irritable. Phrases: feel irritable, get irritable.

### examples

- I get irritable when I'm hungry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/irritable/#x1)
- The baby was irritable because she was teething. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/irritable/#x2)
- Dad is irritable before his morning coffee. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/irritable/#x3)
- Lack of sleep can make you irritable. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/irritable/#x4)
- The irritable old dog growled. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/irritable/#x5)
- Hot weather made everyone irritable. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/irritable/#x6)
- “If,” said one irritable guard, “if we buzzed a spear at the persistent stranger, or if one slung at him with a jagged pebble!” [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/irritable/#x7)

### note

Related: irritate, irritation. Similar: grumpy, cranky (US), crabby, ratty (UK informal), narky (UK slang). Spelling: double r, -able.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «irritable» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/irritable/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.