irritate

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/ˈɪɹ.ɪˌteɪt/

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Etymology 1

FromLatinirrītātus,past participle ofirrītō(“excite, irritate, incite, stimulate”).

Verb

irritate(third-person singular simple presentirritates,present participleirritating,simple past and past participleirritated)

1. (transitive)Toprovokeimpatience,anger,ordispleasurein.
   • 1814,Signor Vestris,La Didone Abbandonata, a Serious Opera, in Two Acts. Altered fromMetastasio,by Signor Vestris. As Represented at the King’s Theatre, in the Hay-Market.,London:[…]J. Gillet,[…],page15:

     If thouirritatestmy lord, there will come to war against thee all the Getulians, Numidians, and Garamantes, Afric contains.

   • 1896,Ernest Rénan,translated by Eleanor Grant Vickery,Caliban: A Philosophical Drama Continuing “The Tempest”ofWilliam Shakespeare(Publications of The Shakespeare Society of New York;No. 9), New York, N.Y.: The Shakespeare Press; London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., Ltd.,page19:

     Thou scandalizest me andirritatestmy nature as much as it possibly can beirritated.

   • 1913,Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes,chapter I, inThe Lodger,London:Methuen,→OCLC;republished inNovels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened,New York, N.Y.:Longmans, Green and Co.,[…],[1933],→OCLC,page10:

     Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. Itirritatedhim shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.

2. (intransitive)Tocauseorinducedispleasureorirritation.
3. (transitive)To inducepainin (all or part of a body or organism).

Synonyms

• provoke
• rile

Antonyms

• placate
• please
• soothe

Related terms

• irritant
• irritation
• irritative
• irritatory

Translations

to cause or induce displeasure or irritation

• Armenian:նյարդայնացնել(hy)(nyardaynacʻnel),զայրացնել(hy)(zayracʻnel),ջղայնացնել(hy)(ǰġaynacʻnel)
• Azerbaijani:qıcıqlandırmaq
• Belarusian:раздражня́цьimpf(razdražnjácʹ)
• Bengali:জ্বালাতন করা(bn)(jalaton kora)
• Bulgarian:дразня(bg)(draznja),ядосвам(bg)(jadosvam)
• Chichonyi-Chidzihana-Chikauma:yuga
• Chinese:

  Mandarin:Kích nộ(zh)(jīnù),Thứ kích(zh)(cìjī)

• Cornish:veksya
• Czech:dráždit(cs)
• Dutch:irriteren(nl)
• Esperanto:agaci(eo),malamuzi
• Finnish:ärsyttää(fi),vituttaa(fi),nyppiä(fi),tympiä(fi),harmittaa(fi),vaivata(fi)
• French:agacer(fr)(displeasure)
• Galician:irritar(gl),arrizar,tocar o carallo(vulgar)
• Georgian:გაღიზიანება(gaɣizianeba),გაბრაზება(gabrazeba)
• German:reizen(de),irritieren(de),ärgern(de)
• Greek:εκνευρίζω(el)(eknevrízo),τσαντίζω(el)(tsantízo),θυμώνω(el)(thymóno)

  Ancient:παροξύνω(paroxúnō)

• Ido:iracigar(io)
• Irish:greannaigh
• Italian:irritare(it)
• Japanese:いらいらさせる(iraira saseru),Nộ らせる(ja)(いからせる, ikaraseru),じらす(ja)(jirasu)
• Ladino:inyervar
• Latin:piget,taedet
• Lithuanian:erzinti(lt),dirginti
• Malay:please add this translation if you can
• Maori:whakakūrakuraku,whakahārangirangi,mukākā,whakatōwenewene
• Middle English:noyen
• Norwegian:irritere(no),irritere(no)
• Polish:drażnić(pl),rozdrażniać,denerwować(pl),irytować(pl),sierdzić(archaic),wkurwiać(pl)(vulgar)
• Portuguese:irritar(pt)
• Romanian:irita(ro),enerva(ro),agasa(ro),sâcâi(ro)
• Russian:раздража́ть(ru)(razdražátʹ),злить(ru)impf(zlitʹ),серди́ть(ru)impf(serdítʹ)
• Spanish:irritar(es),enviscar(es)
• Swedish:irritera(sv)
• Tagalog:alibadbaran
• Turkish:kızdırmak(tr),öfkelendirmek(tr),sinirlendirmek(tr),sinir etmek,sinirini bozmak,gıcık etmek(tr),tahriş etmek(tr),kaşındırmak(tr),irite etmek
• Ukrainian:дратува́тиimpf(dratuváty)

See also

• disturb
• exasperate
• peeve

Etymology 2

FromLatinirritātus,past participle ofirritō(“Iinvalidate,annul”),fromirritus(“invalid”),negation ofratus(“valid,established,fixed”).

Verb

irritate(third-person singular simple presentirritates,present participleirritating,simple past and past participleirritated)

1. (transitive,obsolete,Scots law)To rendernull and void.
   • c. 1634-1661John Bramhall,Protestants' Ordination Defended

     Are human laws presently superfluous, so often as they do notirritateor abrogate Divine laws?

   Synonyms:annul,nullify,invalidate

Italian

Etymology 1

Adjective

irritate

1. femininepluralofirritato

Participle

irritatefpl

1. femininepluralofirritato

Etymology 2

Verb

irritate

1. inflection ofirritare:
   1. second-personpluralpresentindicative
   2. second-personpluralimperative

Anagrams

• arteriti,atterrii,irretita,ritirate,tiritera,triterai

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin)IPA^(key):/ir.riːˈtaː.te/,[ɪrːiːˈt̪äːt̪ɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key):/ir.riˈta.te/,[irːiˈt̪äːt̪e]

Verb

irrītāte

1. second-personpluralpresentactiveimperativeofirrītō

References

• “irritate”,inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary,Oxford: Clarendon Press
• irritateinGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français,Hachette.

Spanish

Verb

irritate

1. second-personsingularvoseoimperativeofirritarcombined withte