irritability [ir-i-tuh-bil-i-tee]
Main Entry:
irritability [ir-i-tuh-bil-i-tee]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: irascibility
Synonyms: anger, annoyance, impatience, irritation, peevishness
Main Entry: anger
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: state of being mad, annoyed
Synonyms: acrimony, animosity, annoyance, antagonism, blow up, cat fit, chagrin, choler, conniption, dander, disapprobation, displeasure, distemper, enmity, exasperation, fury, gall, hatred, hissy fit, huff, ill humor, ill temper, impatience, indignation, infuriation, irascibility, ire, irritability, irritation, mad, miff, outrage, passion, peevishness, petulance, pique, rage, rankling, resentment, slow burn, soreness, stew, storm, tantrum, temper, tiff, umbrage, vexation, violence
Antonyms: agreeability, calmness, contentment, enjoyment, good nature, happiness, joy, peace, pleasantness
Main Entry: asperity
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: harshness; bad temper
Synonyms: acerbity, acrimony, bitterness, churlishness, crabbiness, crossness, difficulty, disagreeableness, irascibility, irritability, meanness, moroseness, peevishness, roughness, sharpness, sourness, sullenness, tartness
Antonyms: calmness, happiness, kindness, mildness
Main Entry: impatience
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: inability, unwillingness to wait
Synonyms: agitation, anger, annoyance, ants in pants, anxiety, avidity, disquietude, eagerness, edginess, excitement, expectancy, fretfulness, haste, hastiness, heat*, impetuosity, intolerance, irritability, irritableness, nervousness, quick temper, rashness, restiveness, restlessness, shortness, snappiness, suspense, uneasiness, vehemence, violence
Antonyms: control, ease, endurance, forbearance, patience, tolerance, waiting, willingness
Main Entry: temper
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: angriness; bad mood
Synonyms: acerbity, anger, annoyance, bad humor, cantankerousness, crossness, dander, excitability, fit, fretfulness, furor, fury, grouchiness, heat*, hotheadedness, huffiness, ill-humor, impatience, irascibility, ire, irritability, irritation, miff, outburst, passion, peevishness, petulance, pugnacity, rage, resentment, sensitivity, short fuse, slow burn, snit, sourness, stew, sullenness, surliness, tantrum, tartness, tear*, tiff, tizzy, touchiness, wax
Antonyms: happiness
Main Entry: irritation
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: sensitivity
Synonyms: excitability, hypersensitivity, inflammation, irritability, oversensitiveness, oversensitivity, rawness, soreness, susceptibility, susceptibleness, tenderness, tenseness
Main Entry: petulance
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: peevishness
Synonyms: bitterness, cynicism, ill-humor, irritability
Main Entry: rudeness
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: impoliteness
Synonyms: acrimony, asperity, audacity, bad manners, barbarity, bluntness, boldness, boorishness, brass, cheek, coarseness, crudeness, crudity, discourtesy, disdain, disrespect, effrontery, grossness, harshness, impertinence, impudence, incivility, insolence, intrusiveness, irritability, misbehavior, nerve*, officiousness, shamelessness, sharpness, tactlessness, ungraciousness, unkindness, unmannerliness, vulgarity
Main Entry: irascibility
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: temper
Synonyms: acerbity, anger, annoyance, bad humor, cantankerousness, crossness, dander, excitability, fit, fretfulness, furor, fury, grouchiness, heat*, hotheadedness, huffiness, ill-humor, impatience, irascibleness, ire, irritability, irritation, low boiling point, miff, outburst, passion, peevishness, petulance, pugnacity, rage, resentment, sensitivity, short fuse, slow burn, snit, sourness, spleen, stew, sullenness, surliness, tantrum, tartness, tear*, temperament, tetchiness, tiff, tizzy, touchiness, wax
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