as in annoyed
subjected to and reacting with irritation
irritated viewers were bombarding the station with complaints about the game's delayed start
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as in bothered
to disturb the peace of mind of (someone) especially by repeated disagreeable acts
constant chatter irritated the student, who was trying to concentrate on a hard assignment
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Recent Examples of irritated
Angela Haupt, Time, 15 Jan. 2026
Neighborhoods that surround Texas Christian University’s campus have formed a larger neighborhood association called the Safe Neighborhood Alliance as community members grow increasingly irritated by parties and noise near their homes.
—Samuel O'Neal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Jan. 2026
Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 12 Dec. 2025
Traditional running belts sagged or squished my stomach a little too tightly; armbands irritated my skin during the summer.
—Kristen Geil, Outside, 21 Nov. 2025
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Adjective
That makes numbness different from tingling, a prickly sensation that indicates that a nerve is irritated.
—Angela Haupt, Time, 15 Jan. 2026
Neighborhoods that surround Texas Christian University’s campus have formed a larger neighborhood association called the Safe Neighborhood Alliance as community members grow increasingly irritated by parties and noise near their homes.
—Samuel O'Neal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Jan. 2026
Verb
Aukerman also was irritated by the Jets’ successful fake punt in the second half.
—Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 12 Dec. 2025
Traditional running belts sagged or squished my stomach a little too tightly; armbands irritated my skin during the summer.
—Kristen Geil, Outside, 21 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for irritated
Adjective
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Virginia was annoyed to see her association made public and suspected someone at Rinehart had talked to Kilgallen.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Jan. 2026
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But that fun idea went south when Barlow became annoyed with her castmate Whitney Rose.—
Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
1 Jan. 2026
Verb
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But something bothered her about the name.—
Ta-Nehisi Coates,
Vanity Fair,
26 Jan. 2026
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Schultz said he is not bothered by the criticism marking his seven-year tenure at the $301,000-a-year post.—
Tony Saavedra,
Oc Register,
24 Jan. 2026
Verb
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Joining him on the bench in street clothes will be Draymond Green, who was scratched with a back injury that Kerr said the Warriors were approaching similarly to Curry’s knee.—
Joseph Dycus,
Mercury News,
27 Jan. 2026
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White Abarrio — the 2025 Pegasus winner who was scratched on-track at the Breeders’ Cup last year and hadn’t run since — was one of the favorites for this race, and few thought the 7-year-old Skippylongstocking would have enough to get to the line first.—
Tim Reynolds,
Sun Sentinel,
26 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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It certainly can be deployed sincerely, yet it’s almost always accompanied by a good-natured, perhaps slightly exasperated, shake of the head.—
Kaitlyn Yarborough,
Southern Living,
3 Jan. 2026
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Let the Big Three ride out the final years of this glorious era together, with Kerr looking on, exasperated but content in the final year of his contract.—
Dieter Kurtenbach,
Mercury News,
24 Dec. 2025
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Feeling good Weathers has been bugged by several injuries over the last few years.—
Brendan Kuty,
New York Times,
16 Jan. 2026
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The comings and goings of the many planes at the little field bugged the Marine Corps brass and rattled the hens at the chicken ranch that was once right about where Cold War-era bowlers would one day rattle the pins at Frontier Lanes.—
Eric DuVall,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
14 Jan. 2026
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Unlike other models on the market that are fed large datasets scraped from the internet, Firefly Foundry models — which are being marketed to businesses as opposed to regular consumers — are unique to each of Adobe’s clients and only trained on IP that clients own the rights to.—
Charles Pulliam-Moore,
The Verge,
22 Jan. 2026
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Training data for the models is often a messy patchwork assembled from millions of sources, much of it scraped from the open web.—
Craig S. Smith,
Forbes.com,
21 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Grifters can be analyzed by affect (jolly, cold, angry, greedy, sad) and/or by gender.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Jan. 2026
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Agents made several arrests in supermarket parking lots and at tamale stands while goading angry residents who confronted them and threatening to unleash tear gas.—
Jason Meisner,
Chicago Tribune,
23 Jan. 2026
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Mattarella condemned the complicity of ordinary Italians in the fascist-era racial laws, which persecuted Italy’s Jewish community, and deportation of its Jews.—
Vanessa Gera,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Jan. 2026
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The Kurds have been marginalized, persecuted and slaughtered by the likes of Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Syria, and before those states existed, the Ottoman Empire.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
26 Jan. 2026
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“Irritated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/irritated. Accessed 31 Jan. 2026.
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