as in fiery
easily irritated or annoyed
that irritable old man always yells at people to stay off of his lawn
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Recent Examples of irritable
Coupled with erratic blood sugar levels – often caused by diets high in refined sugars and low in nutrients – these energy dips and spikes can leave you feeling irritable and drained.
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Lina Begdache, The Conversation, 7 Jan. 2025
This can contribute to symptoms such as fatigue, muscle aches, and irritable mood.
—Rosanna Sutherby, Pharmd, Verywell Health, 3 Jan. 2025
Insecurities manifest in irritable outbursts as the moon clashes with Mars!
—USA TODAY, 1 Jan. 2025
Doc describes general medicine as part doctor, part detective, and that day's appointments deal with irritable bowel, heat rash, and folliculitis.
—Sara Netzley, EW.com, 19 Dec. 2024
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Lina Begdache, The Conversation, 7 Jan. 2025
This can contribute to symptoms such as fatigue, muscle aches, and irritable mood.
—Rosanna Sutherby, Pharmd, Verywell Health, 3 Jan. 2025
Insecurities manifest in irritable outbursts as the moon clashes with Mars!
—USA TODAY, 1 Jan. 2025
Doc describes general medicine as part doctor, part detective, and that day's appointments deal with irritable bowel, heat rash, and folliculitis.
—Sara Netzley, EW.com, 19 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for irritable
Adjective
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Soto came up as a young player in a Washington Nationals clubhouse seeing players with a variety of different personalities in leadership roles, like the fiery Max Scherzer, the flashy Bryce Harper, the business-like Stephen Strasburg and longtime veterans like Ryan Zimmerman and Howie Kendrick.—
Abbey Mastracco,
New York Daily News,
16 Feb. 2025
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The dangers of replicating humans and the potential for unethical abuse of the technology are stressed in a dour warning by a senior official on Earth, played with fiery authority in her final screen role by the redoubtable Haydn Gwynne, to whom the film is dedicated.—
David Rooney,
The Hollywood Reporter,
15 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Named Lija, the wary but winsome mutt — in fact played by the filmmaker’s own pet — is snappish and defensive when her wounds are first treated, only to slowly relent and relax in the face of genuine tenderness.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
6 Feb. 2025
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The film’s co-star, Diane Kruger, plays several roles, notably Karsh’s late wife (seen in flashback) and her snappish veterinarian-turned-dog-groomer sister.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
20 May 2024
Adjective
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Others, like his irascible Celebrity Jeopardy standout Sean Connery, are the uncanny product of masterful tinkering, with Hammond eventually stretching the real and the perceived into a shape as recognizable as the actual figure himself.—
Dennis Perkins,
EW.com,
16 Feb. 2025
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The irascible Helms' proposal was reduced to an agreement that USAID would remain an independent agency, but the administrator would obtain the Secretary of State's approval of its annual budget request.—
Brady Anderson Special to the Democrat-Gazette,
arkansasonline.com,
6 Feb. 2025
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Rojas’s recollections weren’t peevish—fine work was produced under these conditions.—
Ian Parker,
The New Yorker,
20 Jan. 2025
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The songs are muscular and syncretic as ever, but the normally peevish rapper doesn’t maintain his trolling energy for the full record, settling into a questioning and pensive pace.—
Stephen Kearse,
TIME,
8 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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On board the boat, Saxon and Timothy clash with the grumpy Rick (Walton Goggins), who’s in Thailand for mysterious purposes with his younger girlfriend, the sweet, free-spirited Chelsea (Aimee Lou Wood).—
Meredith Blake,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Feb. 2025
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There’s the young and bubbly Chelsea (Aimee Lou Wood) with her grumpy older boyfriend Rick (Walton Goggins), who is inexplicably miserable (and smoking).—
Ethan Shanfeld,
Variety,
17 Feb. 2025
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The only people who can help Sara and Devin are Isaac (Taylor Kitsch), a grouchy mountain man, and Two Moons (Shawnee Pourier), a mute Shoshone girl fleeing her own violent past.—
Daniel Fienberg,
The Hollywood Reporter,
9 Jan. 2025
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The fans who booed last week at Gillette Stadium seemed more grouchy than outraged.—
Steve Buckley,
The Athletic,
2 Jan. 2025
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Musk, often potty-mouthed and petulant on X, replied that Tesla was ready to do exactly that.—
Alan Ohnsman,
Forbes,
6 Feb. 2025
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One suspects that development is not intended to underline how incredibly vacuous and petulant these central characters appear, when we’re meant to regard them as soulful soulmates.—
Dennis Harvey,
Variety,
22 Jan. 2025
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California’s crabby conundrum Dungeness crabs are plucked from the Pacific to use for sushi rolls, salads and their namesake cakes.—
Ryan Fonseca,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Feb. 2025
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This time, however, she is joined by a crew consisting of an enthusiastic young engineer, a crabby senior farmer and a history-preserving storyteller.—
Julie Hinds,
Detroit Free Press,
26 Nov. 2024
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“Irritable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/irritable. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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