irritable
adjective
easily irritated or annoyed; readily excited to impatience or anger.
irritableness
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a word derived from
irritable.
Example Sentences
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Great singularity of conduct habitually displayed, periods of depression, irritableness, and nervousness, when crossed with similar characteristics in the other parent, or other unusual ones, not infrequently develop into actual insanity in succeeding generations.
From Insanity Its Causes and Prevention by Henry Putnam Stearns
When he returned he went about his ordinary occupations; he was seemingly not in his usual health, but the constant irritableness had left him.
From Demos by George Gissing
He must be free from ill passion and irritableness.
From The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity by Charles Ebert Orr
He felt no anger at the denunciation, only a plaguing irritableness, an annoyance with both Harding and himself.
From Skin Game by Charles E. Fritch
Cochrane blinked, lifted even out of his irritableness by the sight before him.
From Operation: Outer Space by Murray Leinster
