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Synonyms for irritate
ˈɪr ɪˌteɪtir·ri·tate
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irritateverb
Antonyms:
pleaseirritateverb
To provoke impatience, anger, or displeasure.
Antonyms:
pleaseirritateverb
To introduce irritability.
Antonyms:
pleaseirritateverb
To cause or induce displeasure or irritation.
Antonyms:
pleaseirritateverb
To induce pain in (all or part of a body or organism).
Antonyms:
please
English Synonyms and Antonyms
irritate
One may be annoyed by the well-meaning awkwardness of a servant, irritated by a tight shoe or a thoughtless remark, vexed at some careless neglect or needless misfortune, wounded by the ingratitude of child or friend. To tease is to give some slight and perhaps playful annoyance. Aggravate in the sense of offend is colloquial. To provoke, literally to call out or challenge, is to begin a contest; one provokes another to violence. To affront is to offer some defiant offense or indignity, as it were, to one's face; it is somewhat less than to insult. Compare PIQUE.
Synonyms:
affront, aggravate, annoy, displease, exasperate, insult, offend, provoke, tease, vex, woundAntonyms:
conciliate, content, gratify, honor, please
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Princeton's WordNet
annoy, rag, get to, bother, get at, irritate, rile, nark, nettle, gravel, vex, chafe, devilverb
cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations
"Mosquitoes buzzing in my ear really bothers me"; "It irritates me that she never closes the door after she leaves"
Synonyms:
nark, dumbfound, get at, reproof, chide, bait, mystify, urticate, rile, fret, dun, cod, razz, crucify, stick, bedevil, reprimand, reach, amaze, lambaste, devil, get to, rub, tantalise, frustrate, annoy, chew out, beat, lambast, trounce, tease, taunt, roil, access, berate, chew up, disoblige, torment, stupefy, lecture, trouble oneself, agitate, put out, rag, discommode, inconvenience oneself, ride, bewilder, dress down, tantalize, stir up, rally, make, remonstrate, flummox, incommode, get, baffle, jaw, rebuke, worry, pose, vex, inconvenience, perplex, raise up, bother, gravel, disturb, take to task, fray, gall, puzzle, trouble, bawl out, scratch, nettle, progress to, call on the carpet, commove, twit, excoriate, have words, chafe, scold, call down, shake up, nonplusAntonyms:
sootheirritateverb
excite to an abnormal condition, or chafe or inflame
"Aspirin irritates my stomach"
Synonyms:
annoy, nettle, get to, rag, gravel, rile, devil, bother, nark, vex, chafe, get atAntonyms:
sootheirritateverb
excite to some characteristic action or condition, such as motion, contraction, or nervous impulse, by the application of a stimulus
"irritate the glands of a leaf"
Synonyms:
annoy, nettle, get to, rag, gravel, rile, devil, bother, nark, vex, chafe, get atAntonyms:
soothe
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List of paraphrases for "irritate":
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#77 | get | |
#132 | make | |
#324 | access | |
#2254 | reach | |
#2851 | beat | |
#2968 | ride | |
#3124 | trouble | |
#3387 | stick | |
#4316 | lecture | |
#4785 | puzzle | |
#5005 | worry | |
#5117 | devil | |
#5985 | cod | |
#6609 | rally | |
#7665 | scratch | |
#9117 | wound | |
#9747 | pose | |
#9936 | bother | |
#12745 | rub | |
#13072 | gravel | |
#13704 | bait | |
#13737 | incense | |
#14387 | jaw | |
#14785 | inconvenience | |
#15810 | rag | |
#17420 | tease | |
#17766 | insult | |
#19524 | dun | |
#20785 | annoy | |
#21252 | gall | |
#23039 | offend | |
#23336 | disturb | |
#26899 | provoke | |
#27090 | fret | |
#27707 | fray | |
#29210 | torment | |
#30103 | amaze | |
#41205 | baffle | |
#42240 | nettle | |
#44368 | reprimand | |
#45992 | rebuke | |
#47688 | irritate | |
#49040 | frustrate | |
#50234 | razz | |
#53644 | taunt | |
#54523 | vex | |
#55038 | aggravate | |
#62512 | twit | |
#62754 | affront | |
#73551 | scold | |
#80021 | crucify | |
#86407 | agitate | |
#90291 | chafe | |
#95211 | perplex | |
#105484 | reproof | |
#112496 | mystify | |
#116298 | berate | |
#126122 | chide | |
#127183 | rile | |
#132236 | displease | |
#144808 | trounce | |
#148246 | tantalize | |
#176771 | roil | |
#216211 | bedevil | |
#224053 | bewilder | |
#227873 | exasperate | |
#231498 | nark | |
#235554 | remonstrate | |
#284627 | lambaste | |
#296996 | excoriate | |
#304391 | lambast | |
#321242 | tantalise |
How to use irritate in a sentence?
I just wanted to be able to push him out of the boat and not really hurt him or irritate him too much because he looked like he just came out of the water because it was wet back there and he was sunning himself to getdry.
PVC also releases gases known as volatile organic compounds, which are gases that can irritate the eyes, nose, and lungs.
Sulfates have been shown to be irritating to eyes and skin in some studies, but just because a shampoo is sulfate-free, that doesn’t mean it’s less likely to irritate: Many sulfate-free shampoos that still lather have other detergents in them.
They can irritate and cause more problems than good.
The script has to grab me, irritate me, seduce me. I do not want to repeat myself with my roles.
Translations for irritate
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- জ্বালাতন করাBengali
- drážditCzech
- reizenGerman
- agaciEsperanto
- irritarSpanish
- عصبانی کردنPersian
- ärsyttää, vituttaa, harmittaa, vaivata, tympiä, nyppiäFinnish
- iracigarIdo
- irritareItalian
- whakakūrakuraku, whakahārangirangiMāori
- irriterenDutch
- rozdrażniać, drażnićPolish
- irritarPortuguese
- agasa, sâcâi, enerva, iritaRomanian
- раздражатьRussian
- irriteraSwedish
- ระคายเคืองThai
- sinir etmek, gıcık etmek, sinirini bozmak, sinirlendirmek, kaşındırmak, kızdırmak, öfkelendirmek, tahriş etmekTurkish
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