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Synonyms for irritate
ˈɪr ɪˌteɪtir·ri·tate

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Wiktionary0.0 / 0 votes

  1. irritateverb

    Synonyms:
    provoke, rile

    Antonyms:
    please

  2. irritateverb

    To provoke impatience, anger, or displeasure.

    Synonyms:
    rile, provoke

    Antonyms:
    please

  3. irritateverb

    To introduce irritability.

    Synonyms:
    provoke, rile

    Antonyms:
    please

  4. irritateverb

    To cause or induce displeasure or irritation.

    Synonyms:
    rile, provoke

    Antonyms:
    please

  5. irritateverb

    To induce pain in (all or part of a body or organism).

    Synonyms:
    provoke, rile

    Antonyms:
    please

English Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. 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, wound

    Antonyms:
    conciliate, content, gratify, honor, please

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms4.0 / 1 vote

  1. irritate

    Synonyms:
    tease, provoke, annoy, exasperate, worry, incense

    Antonyms:
    soothe, caress, pacify, tame, mollify

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. 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, nonplus

    Antonyms:
    soothe

  2. irritateverb

    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 at

    Antonyms:
    soothe

  3. irritateverb

    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 at

    Antonyms:
    soothe

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Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. irritateverb

    Synonyms:
    provoke, nettle, chafe, incense, exasperate, enrage, anger, fret, offend, vex, annoy, tease, gall

  2. irritateverb

    Synonyms:
    (Med.) inflame (by friction)

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. irritateverb

    Synonyms:
    intensify, stimulate, provoke, vex, annoy, offend, chafe

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "irritate":

    annoy

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How to use irritate in a sentence?

  1. Mark Dalton:

    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.

  2. Glenn Harnett:

    PVC also releases gases known as volatile organic compounds, which are gases that can irritate the eyes, nose, and lungs.

  3. Paradi Mirmirani:

    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.

  4. Richard Rosenfeld:

    They can irritate and cause more problems than good.

  5. Bruno Ganz:

    The script has to grab me, irritate me, seduce me. I do not want to repeat myself with my roles.


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