What are some opposite words for irritate?
Antonyms for irritate
ˈɪr ɪˌteɪtir·ri·tate
This page is about all possible antonyms and opposite words for the term irritate.
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irritateverb
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pleaseirritateverb
To provoke impatience, anger, or displeasure.
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pleaseirritateverb
To introduce irritability.
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pleaseirritateverb
To cause or induce displeasure or irritation.
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pleaseirritateverb
To induce pain in (all or part of a body or organism).
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please
English Synonyms and Antonyms
irritate
One may be annoyed by the well-meaning awkwardness of a servant, irritated by a tight shoe or a thoughtless remark, vexed at some careless neglect or needless misfortune, wounded by the ingratitude of child or friend. To tease is to give some slight and perhaps playful annoyance. Aggravate in the sense of offend is colloquial. To provoke, literally to call out or challenge, is to begin a contest; one provokes another to violence. To affront is to offer some defiant offense or indignity, as it were, to one's face; it is somewhat less than to insult. Compare PIQUE.
Antonyms:
conciliate, content, gratify, honor, pleaseSynonyms:
affront, aggravate, annoy, displease, exasperate, insult, offend, provoke, tease, vex, wound
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annoy, rag, get to, bother, get at, irritate, rile, nark, nettle, gravel, vex, chafe, devilverb
cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations
"Mosquitoes buzzing in my ear really bothers me"; "It irritates me that she never closes the door after she leaves"
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sootheSynonyms:
nark, dumbfound, get at, reproof, chide, bait, mystify, urticate, rile, fret, dun, cod, razz, crucify, stick, bedevil, reprimand, reach, amaze, lambaste, devil, get to, rub, tantalise, frustrate, annoy, chew out, beat, lambast, trounce, tease, taunt, roil, access, berate, chew up, disoblige, torment, stupefy, lecture, trouble oneself, agitate, put out, rag, discommode, inconvenience oneself, ride, bewilder, dress down, tantalize, stir up, rally, make, remonstrate, flummox, incommode, get, baffle, jaw, rebuke, worry, pose, vex, inconvenience, perplex, raise up, bother, gravel, disturb, take to task, fray, gall, puzzle, trouble, bawl out, scratch, nettle, progress to, call on the carpet, commove, twit, excoriate, have words, chafe, scold, call down, shake up, nonplusirritateverb
excite to an abnormal condition, or chafe or inflame
"Aspirin irritates my stomach"
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sootheSynonyms:
annoy, nettle, get to, rag, gravel, rile, devil, bother, nark, vex, chafe, get atirritateverb
excite to some characteristic action or condition, such as motion, contraction, or nervous impulse, by the application of a stimulus
"irritate the glands of a leaf"
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sootheSynonyms:
annoy, nettle, get to, rag, gravel, rile, devil, bother, nark, vex, chafe, get at
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How to use irritate in a sentence?
PVC also releases gases known as volatile organic compounds, which are gases that can irritate the eyes, nose, and lungs.
I only went to law school to irritate the feminists.
Chinese State Councillor Wang Yi:
We call on all sides to remain rational and exercise restraint, and not take any escalatory actions that irritate regional tensions, and not open a Pandora's box, in particular, the U.S. side should alter its extreme pressure methods.
Keep things that may irritate the bladder away from the diet while the bedwetting is resolving like carbonated beverages, citrus, melons, caffeinated foods.
It used to irritate me the way certain narratives are spread and the way words are twisted, I had to just disengage from it, when I came into the game, it used to happen and I'd just laugh it off and play up to it and do my thing. Then it just kept up going on, on, and on. It got a little much and I reacted to disrespect. But no more.
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