- irritable
- adj.irritable.Ser colérico Be quick-tempered (different from Be angry=Estar colérico.)* * *irritable► adjetivo1 irritable* * *ADJ irritable* * *adjetivo irritable* * *= tetchy [tetchier -comp., tetchiest -sup.], irritable, cranky [crankier -comp., crankiest -sup.], irascible, crabby [crabbier -comp., crabbiest, -sup.], waspish, testy [testier -comp., testiest -sup.].Ex. CC uses this device in Literature, where authors are specified by their date of birth (though Ranganathan has a rather tetchy note about the difficulty of establishing this in some cases).Ex. Many librarians worry that the public, collective image of librarians is associated with the crone -- an older, single woman who is irritable and protective of her domain.Ex. For example, you already know that living in a windowless room will make you cranky and out of sorts.Ex. He was a rag-and-bone man living with his irascible father in a junkyard with only their horse for company.Ex. The normally perky and intrepid Cristina is flat out crabby these days.Ex. But as you read this sentence, you cannot fail to hear his voice, cosy, waspish, inimitable.Ex. We're assailed by doubts, mortified by our own shortcomings, surrounded by freaks, testy over silly details.* * *adjetivo irritable* * *= tetchy [tetchier -comp., tetchiest -sup.], irritable, cranky [crankier -comp., crankiest -sup.], irascible, crabby [crabbier -comp., crabbiest, -sup.], waspish, testy [testier -comp., testiest -sup.].
Ex: CC uses this device in Literature, where authors are specified by their date of birth (though Ranganathan has a rather tetchy note about the difficulty of establishing this in some cases).
Ex: Many librarians worry that the public, collective image of librarians is associated with the crone -- an older, single woman who is irritable and protective of her domain.Ex: For example, you already know that living in a windowless room will make you cranky and out of sorts.Ex: He was a rag-and-bone man living with his irascible father in a junkyard with only their horse for company.Ex: The normally perky and intrepid Cristina is flat out crabby these days.Ex: But as you read this sentence, you cannot fail to hear his voice, cosy, waspish, inimitable.Ex: We're assailed by doubts, mortified by our own shortcomings, surrounded by freaks, testy over silly details.* * *irritableadjectiveirritable* * *
irritable adjetivo
irritable
'irritable' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
irascible
- enojadizo
- enojón
English:
cantankerous
- impatient
- irritable
- prickly
- snappy
- inclined
- moody
* * *irritable adjirritable* * *irritableadj irritable* * *irritable adj: irritable
Spanish-English dictionary. 2013.