irritatable

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adjective

Capable of being irritated; irritable.

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Meanings

adjectiveirritatable (comparative more irritatable, superlative most irritatable)

comparative more irritatable · superlative most irritatable

  1. Capable of being irritated; irritable.

    Such a diet will be very proper for strong, vigorous constitutions; but for weak, delicate, or irritatable ones, it is sometimes highly improper.

    1788, F. Swediaur, Practical observations on the more obstinate and inveterate venereal complaints
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    The irritatable surfaces were confined to my head only. Not the spinal column nor the ganglionic centres along the thigh responded to this inexplicable force.

    1917, Louis Pope Gratacap, The End: How the Great War was Stopped : a Novelistic Vagary

Origin

From irritate + -able.

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Chicago

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