irritate

English

Etymology

From Latin irrītātus, past participle of irrītō (“excite, irritate, incite, stimulate”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪɹ.ɪˌteɪt/

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Verb

irritate (third-person singular simple present irritates, present participle irritating, simple past and past participle irritated)

1. (transitive) To provoke impatience, anger, or displeasure in.
   • 1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, OCLC 7780546; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], OCLC 2666860, page 0056:

     Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.

2. (intransitive) To cause or induce displeasure or irritation.
3. (transitive) To induce pain in (all or part of a body or organism).
4. (transitive, obsolete, Scotland, law) To render null and void.
   • c. 1634-1661 John Bramhall, Protestants' Ordination Defended

     Are human laws presently superfluous, so often as they do not irritate or abrogate Divine laws ?

Synonyms

• provoke
• rile

Antonyms

• placate
• please
• soothe

Related terms

• irritant
• irritation
• irritative
• irritatory

 

Translations

to cause or induce displeasure or irritation

• Armenian: նյարդայնացնել (hy) (nyardaynacʿnel), զայրացնել (hy) (zayracʿnel), ջղայնացնել (hy) (ǰłaynacʿnel)
• Azerbaijani: qıcıqlandırmaq
• Belarusian: раздражня́ць impf (razdražnjácʹ)
• Bengali: জ্বালাতন করা (jbalatôn kôra)
• Bulgarian: дразня (bg) (draznja), ядосвам (bg) (jadosvam)
• Chichonyi-Chidzihana-Chikauma: yuga
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 激怒 (zh) (jīnù), 刺激 (zh) (cìjī)

• Cornish: veksya
• Czech: dráždit (cs)
• Dutch: irriteren (nl)
• Esperanto: agaci (eo), malamuzi
• Finnish: ärsyttää (fi), vituttaa (fi), nyppiä (fi), tympiä (fi), harmittaa (fi), vaivata (fi)
• French: agacer (displeasure)
• Galician: irritar (gl), arrizar
• Georgian: გაღიზიანება (gaɣizianeba), გაბრაზება (gabrazeba)
• German: reizen (de), irritieren (de), ärgern (de)
• Greek: εκνευρίζω (el) (eknevrízo), τσαντίζω (el) (tsantízo), θυμώνω (el) (thymóno)

  Ancient: παροξύνω (paroxúnō)

• Ido: iracigar (io)

• Irish: greannaigh
• Italian: irritare (it)
• Japanese: いらいらさせる (iraira saseru), 怒らせる (ja) (いからせる, ikaraseru), じらす (jirasu)
• Ladino: inyervar
• Latin: piget, taedet
• Lithuanian: érzinti (lt), dìrginti
• Maori: whakakūrakuraku, whakahārangirangi, mukākā, whakatōwenewene
• Middle English: noyen
• Norwegian: irritere (no), irritere (no)
• Polish: drażnić (pl), rozdrażniać, denerwować (pl), irytować (pl), sierdzić (archaic), wkurwiać (pl) (vulgar)
• Portuguese: irritar (pt)
• Romanian: irita (ro), enerva (ro), agasa (ro), sâcâi (ro)
• Russian: раздража́ть (ru) (razdražátʹ), злить (ru) impf (zlitʹ), серди́ть (ru) impf (serdítʹ)
• Spanish: irritar (es), enviscar (es)
• Swedish: irritera (sv)
• Tagalog: alibadbaran
• Turkish: kızdırmak (tr), öfkelendirmek (tr), sinirlendirmek (tr), sinir etmek, sinirini bozmak, gıcık etmek (tr), tahriş etmek (tr), kaşındırmak (tr)
• Ukrainian: дратува́ти impf (dratuváty)

See also

• exasperate
• peeve
• disturb

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Italian

Etymology 1

Adjective

irritate

1. feminine plural of irritato

Participle

irritate f pl

1. feminine plural of irritato

Etymology 2

Verb

irritate

1. inflection of irritare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Anagrams

• arteriti, atterrii, irretita, ritirate, tiritera, triterai

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ir.riːˈtaː.te/, [ɪrːiːˈt̪äːt̪ɛ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ir.riˈta.te/, [irːiˈt̪äːt̪ɛ]

Verb

irrītāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of irrītō

References

• irritate in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• irritate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette