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
From the dramatic adolescent to the unpredictable PMS-ing woman to the irritable menopausal crone, unattractive stereotypes of women ruled by their hormones abound.
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Patricia Bencivenga, STAT, 26 Mar. 2026
Caroly is immediately affected, glued to the TV; John, suddenly irritable, retreats.
—Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 20 Mar. 2026
Rather than get irritable online, Medeiros did something positive about it.
—Dan Medeiros, The Herald News, 27 Feb. 2026
Manic episodes are described as prolonged periods of mood instability, in which a person can experience extreme increases in energy or euphoria, or alternatively, feel depressed or unusually irritable.
—Edward Segarra, USA Today, 24 Feb. 2026
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Patricia Bencivenga, STAT, 26 Mar. 2026
Caroly is immediately affected, glued to the TV; John, suddenly irritable, retreats.
—Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 20 Mar. 2026
Rather than get irritable online, Medeiros did something positive about it.
—Dan Medeiros, The Herald News, 27 Feb. 2026
Manic episodes are described as prolonged periods of mood instability, in which a person can experience extreme increases in energy or euphoria, or alternatively, feel depressed or unusually irritable.
—Edward Segarra, USA Today, 24 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for irritable
Adjective
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Output and downtime tug hard as the intuitive Moon activates your 6th House of Work and Health, opposing fiery Mars in your 12th House of Solitude.—
Tarot.com,
New York Daily News,
28 May 2026
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These fiery thighs are easy to make.—
Lynda Balslev,
Mercury News,
26 May 2026
Adjective
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But even a young woman struggling with the patriarchal conundrum of cool-girl syndrome (to be independent and accepted) might reveal more of a snappish turn of mind than Grace does.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
12 Apr. 2026
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The poodle community is particularly snappish about doodles.—
John Seabrook,
New Yorker,
16 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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The coach of the team, Tarrant, an irascible, former Marine, allowed outsiders to come watch practice.—
Joe Vardon,
New York Times,
11 May 2026
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Their first conversation is comically lopsided, and McKellen, purring his way through what is effectively a monologue, lays the groundwork for his most vividly inhabited and hilariously irascible performance in years.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
3 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Judith Lightfoot Clarke and Greg Wood carry themselves with peevish authority as the Butley, oozing entitlement.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
28 Apr. 2026
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The childishness of his expressions infantilized a genuinely vicious regime, painting it as more peevish than petrifying.—
Fintan O’Toole,
The New York Review of Books,
9 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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In Kennedy’s original series, Dean and Allie’s love story happens in Book Three, The Score, after the follow-up book The Mistake, which tracks the grumpy sunshine romance of John Logan (Antonio Cipriano) and Grace Ivers (India Fowler).—
CT Jones,
Rolling Stone,
28 May 2026
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Their season has been busy, grumpy and overstretched, and pressure has been a niggling, constant companion, particularly at home, but their opponents on Sunday were hapless, soft in defence and muddled in their thinking.—
George Caulkin,
New York Times,
18 May 2026
Adjective
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That Utah rideshare driver, however, was justifiable more grouchy.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Jan. 2026
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Flockhart is equally supportive of Ford, having expressed her joy at watching her husband’s performance as the grouchy, oft-deadpan therapist.—
Skyler Trepel,
PEOPLE,
28 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Increasingly petulant persona aside, EXPERIMENTAL RAP once again proves just how explosive JPEG is as a producer.—
Dylan Green,
Pitchfork,
29 May 2026
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Pedro Neto getting involved in an unnecessary, petulant altercation?—
Liam Twomey,
New York Times,
25 May 2026
Adjective
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For the priests, this was a case of demonic possession due to witch-craft, and Mary’s crabby, aloof neighbor Elizabeth Jackson was the prime witch suspect.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Apr. 2026
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The show followed the destitute Cuylers — father Early, his illegitimate son Rusty, his meth-loving sister Lily, and his crabby grandmother Granny — and their various moneymaking high jinks.—
Eric Vilas-Boas,
Vulture,
18 Mar. 2026
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“Irritable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/irritable. Accessed 5 Jun. 2026.
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