Definition of irritated
- irritated eyes
irritated viewers were bombarding the station with complaints about the game's delayed start
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aggravated, annoyed, bothered, exasperated, galled, irked, peeved, put out, teed off, vexed;
displeased, distressed, disturbed, perturbed, troubled, upset;
angered, angry, indignant, inflamed (also enflamed), infuriated, irate, ireful, mad, outraged, rankled, riled, roiled, sore, steaming;
bristly, cross, disapproving, huffy, piqued, resentful;
bearish, cantankerous, choleric, churlish, crabby, cranky, dyspeptic, fretful, fussy, grouchy, grumpy, ill-humored, irascible, irritable, peevish, petulant, snappish, snuffy, testy, touchy;
badgered, bedeviled, frustrated, haggled, harassed, harried, hassled, inconvenienced, persecuted, pestered, pinpricked, plagued, provoked, tested, tormented, tortured, tried;
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