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Synonyms for irritating
ir·ri·tat·ing
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Princeton's WordNet
annoying, bothersome, galling, irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, plaguy, plaguey, teasing, vexatious, vexingadjective
causing irritation or annoyance
"tapping an annoying rhythm on his glass with his fork"; "aircraft noise is particularly bothersome near the airport"; "found it galling to have to ask permission"; "an irritating delay"; "nettlesome paperwork"; "a pesky mosquito"; "swarms of pestering gnats"; "a plaguey newfangled safety catch"; "a teasing and persistent thought annoyed him"; "a vexatious child"; "it is vexing to have to admit you are wrong"
Synonyms:
exasperating, corruptive, pestilential, petulant, bothersome, mocking, galling, pestilent, cranky, perversive, pesky, scratchy, pestiferous, pettish, nettlesome, dirty, vexing, painful, irritable, plaguey, quizzical, peevish, irritative, plaguy, maddening, infuriating, annoying, tetchy, testy, fractious, techy, vexatious, pestering, peckish, teasingAntonyms:
comfortable, agreeable, depressant, comfyirritating, irritativeadjective
(used of physical stimuli) serving to stimulate or excite
"an irritative agent"
Synonyms:
pesky, pestering, nettlesome, bothersome, plaguey, painful, teasing, irritative, galling, annoying, plaguy, vexing, pestiferous, vexatiousAntonyms:
comfy, depressant, comfortable, agreeableirritating, painfuladjective
causing physical discomfort
"bites of black flies are more than irritating; they can be very painful"
Synonyms:
nettlesome, annoying, afflictive, teasing, plaguy, vexing, vexatious, galling, irritative, abominable, bothersome, awful, unspeakable, plaguey, atrocious, pestiferous, terrible, pesky, dreadful, pestering, sore, painfulAntonyms:
depressant, agreeable, comfy, comfortable
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "irritating":
irritant, annoying, galling, exasperating, irksome, vexatious, vexing, inconvenient, disturbing
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#4328 | dirty | |
#6918 | terrible | |
#9372 | painful | |
#9416 | annoying | |
#9775 | awful | |
#12985 | sore | |
#13075 | disturbing | |
#21074 | teasing | |
#23190 | dreadful | |
#23970 | irritating | |
#26620 | irritable | |
#30182 | cranky | |
#32934 | inconvenient | |
#34388 | mocking | |
#34818 | pesky | |
#44697 | irritant | |
#45237 | unspeakable | |
#46948 | bothersome | |
#50274 | atrocious | |
#51404 | abominable | |
#59577 | scratchy | |
#66520 | maddening | |
#70924 | techy | |
#74214 | testy | |
#74824 | infuriating | |
#78530 | vexing | |
#89995 | vexatious | |
#101981 | galling | |
#102921 | quizzical | |
#103649 | petulant | |
#108040 | pestering | |
#109623 | irksome | |
#111300 | exasperating | |
#111963 | fractious | |
#112226 | peevish | |
#245384 | pestilent | |
#264537 | pestilential | |
#287350 | peckish | |
#299977 | corruptive | |
#313326 | irritative | |
#323849 | tetchy |
How to use irritating in a sentence?
For me as a voter it is downright irritating that a diplomat should come here and tell us how to live or how our voters should live.
Trevanian from the novel "Shibumi":
It was not their irritating assumption of equality that annoyed Nicholai so much as their cultural confusions. The Americans seemed to confuse standard of living with quality of life, equal opportunity with institutionalized mediocrity, bravery with courage, machismo with manhood, liberty with freedom, wordiness with articulation, fun with pleasure - in short, all of the misconceptions common to those who assume that justice implies equality for all, rather than equality for equals.
This incident could be irritating for Russia, yet will hardly be a major setback for a relationship already under immense strain due to various issues such as sanctions.
After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
It wasn't simply the irritating Beijing cough that was attacking residents daily — it was something much worse.
Translations for irritating
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- مزعجArabic
- irritantCatalan, Valencian
- irritanteSpanish
- آزار دهندهPersian
- harmittava, ärsyttäväFinnish
- irritantFrench
- menjengkelkanIndonesian
- irritanteItalian
- irritantDutch
- irritantePortuguese
- раздражающийRussian
- irriterandeSwedish
- nakakainisTagalog
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