irritatable
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]irritatable (comparative more irritatable, superlative most irritatable)
- Capable of being irritated; irritable.
- 1788, F. Swediaur, Practical observations on the more obstinate and inveterate venereal complaints:
- Such a diet will be very proper for strong, vigorous constitutions; but for weak, delicate, or irritatable ones, it is sometimes highly improper.
- 1917, Louis Pope Gratacap, The End: How the Great War was Stopped : a Novelistic Vagary:
- The irritatable surfaces were confined to my head only. Not the spinal column nor the ganglionic centres along the thigh responded to this inexplicable force.