Thesaurus:irritable

Thesaurus

irritable

English

Adjective

Sense: easily annoyed or irritated

Synonyms

• atrabilious
• bad-tempered
• bilious
• bitchy (vulgar, colloquial)
• brainish
• cantankerous
• carnaptious (UK dialect, Ireland)
• crabby
• cranky
• crotchety
• dyspeptic
• edgy (dated)
• fantoddish
• fiery
• fretful
• grumpy
• grotchy (fandom slang)
• grouchy
• hissy
• hot-livered (archaic)
• hot-tempered
• hotheaded
• huffy
• humpy
• ill-natured
• ill-tempered
• irascible
• irritable
• out of sorts
• peevish    [⇒ thesaurus]
• pettish
• petulant
• prickly
• quick-tempered
• querulous
• raspy
• ratty (originally Britain, informal)
• short-tempered
• snappish
• snappy
• snippety
• snippish
• snippy
• snitchy
• splenetic
• stressy
• testy
• tetchy
• tetty (obsolete)
• thin-skinned
• thorny
• touchy
• twitchy (figuratively)
• umbrageous (figuratively)
• waspish

Antonyms

• calm    [⇒ thesaurus]
• imperturbable
• serene

Hyponyms

• hyperirritable
• snarkcastic

Hypernyms

• enthusiastic    [⇒ thesaurus]
• passionate

Various

• like a bear with a sore head
• on edge

See also

• combative    [⇒ thesaurus]
• peevish    [⇒ thesaurus]
• quarrelsome    [⇒ thesaurus]

Further reading

• “825. Excitability” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “901. Irascibility” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “irritable” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.