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Definition of Irritating

1. Adjective. Causing irritation or annoyance. "It is vexing to have to admit you are wrong"

2. Adjective. (used of physical stimuli) serving to stimulate or excite. "An irritative agent"

3. Adjective. Causing physical discomfort. "Bites of black flies are more than irritating; they can be very painful"

Definition of Irritating

1. Adjective. Causing irritation, annoyance or pain. ¹

2. Adjective. Stimulating or exciting a response. ¹

3. Verb. (present participle of irritate) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Irritating

1. irritate [v] - See also: irritate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Irritating

irritable heart irritable mood irritableness irritablenesses irritably irritainment irritancies irritancy irritant irritant contact dermatitis

irritant eczema irritants irritate irritated irritates irritating irritatingly irritation irritation cell irritation fibroma

irritations irritative irritator irritators irritatory irrorate irroration irrorations irrotational irrotationality

Literary usage of Irritating

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The woman in white by Wilkie Collins (1871)
"... not suffer Mr. Hartright to disturb that repose by remaining in the house under circumstances of an essentially irritating nature to both sides. ..."

2. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman, Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) (1902)
"... laws governing the therapeutic value of any silver compound are these: It must not coagulate albumen nor precipitate chlorides; must not be irritating, ..."

3. The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte, Emperor of the French: With a Preliminary by Walter Scott (1827)
"Yet these years were painfully marked, and indeed embittered by a train of irritating disputes betwixt the prisoner and the officer to whom was committed ..."

4. Florida: The Keysby Don Philpott by Don Philpott (2002)
"Irritating INSECTS Mosquitoes can be a problem almost anywhere. ... Fire ants are also found, and their bites can be very irritating. ..."

5. A Practical treatise on the diseases of the eye by William Mackenzie, Thomas Wharton Jones (1855)
"Irritating applications. It may be laid down as an axiom, that (to use the ... In regard to the mode of action of irritating applications in conjunctival ..."

6. The woman in white by Wilkie Collins (1871)
"... not suffer Mr. Hartright to disturb that repose by remaining in the house under circumstances of an essentially irritating nature to both sides. ..."

7. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman, Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) (1902)
"... laws governing the therapeutic value of any silver compound are these: It must not coagulate albumen nor precipitate chlorides; must not be irritating, ..."

8. The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte, Emperor of the French: With a Preliminary by Walter Scott (1827)
"Yet these years were painfully marked, and indeed embittered by a train of irritating disputes betwixt the prisoner and the officer to whom was committed ..."

9. Florida: The Keysby Don Philpott by Don Philpott (2002)
"Irritating INSECTS Mosquitoes can be a problem almost anywhere. ... Fire ants are also found, and their bites can be very irritating. ..."

10. A Practical treatise on the diseases of the eye by William Mackenzie, Thomas Wharton Jones (1855)
"Irritating applications. It may be laid down as an axiom, that (to use the ... In regard to the mode of action of irritating applications in conjunctival ..."

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