Synonyms for irritate
ˈɪr ɪˌteɪtir·ri·tate

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1. irritateverb

   Synonyms:
   provoke, rile

   Antonyms:
   please

2. irritateverb

   To provoke impatience, anger, or displeasure.

   Synonyms:
   rile, provoke

   Antonyms:
   please

3. irritateverb

   To introduce irritability.

   Synonyms:
   provoke, rile

   Antonyms:
   please

4. irritateverb

   To cause or induce displeasure or irritation.

   Synonyms:
   rile, provoke

   Antonyms:
   please

5. irritateverb

   To induce pain in (all or part of a body or organism).

   Synonyms:
   provoke, rile

   Antonyms:
   please

English Synonyms and Antonyms(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. 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.

   Synonyms:
   affront, aggravate, annoy, displease, exasperate, insult, offend, provoke, tease, vex, wound

   Antonyms:
   conciliate, content, gratify, honor, please

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms(4.00 / 1 vote)Rate these synonyms:

1. irritate

   Synonyms:
   tease, provoke, annoy, exasperate, worry, incense

   Antonyms:
   soothe, caress, pacify, tame, mollify

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. 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"

   Synonyms:
   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, nonplus

   Antonyms:
   soothe

2. irritateverb

   excite to an abnormal condition, or chafe or inflame

   "Aspirin irritates my stomach"

   Synonyms:
   annoy, nettle, get to, rag, gravel, rile, devil, bother, nark, vex, chafe, get at

   Antonyms:
   soothe

3. irritateverb

   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"

   Synonyms:
   annoy, nettle, get to, rag, gravel, rile, devil, bother, nark, vex, chafe, get at

   Antonyms:
   soothe

Matched Categories

1. • Excite
   • Physiology
   • Worsen

Dictionary of English Synonymes(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. irritateverb

   Synonyms:
   provoke, nettle, chafe, incense, exasperate, enrage, anger, fret, offend, vex, annoy, tease, gall

2. irritateverb

   Synonyms:
   (Med.) inflame (by friction)

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. irritateverb

   Synonyms:
   intensify, stimulate, provoke, vex, annoy, offend, chafe

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1. List of paraphrases for "irritate":

   annoy

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How to use irritate in a sentence?

1. Paradi Mirmirani:

   Sulfates have been shown to be irritating to eyes and skin in some studies, but just because a shampoo is sulfate-free, that doesn’t mean it’s less likely to irritate: Many sulfate-free shampoos that still lather have other detergents in them.

2. Mark Dalton:

   I just wanted to be able to push him out of the boat and not really hurt him or irritate him too much because he looked like he just came out of the water because it was wet back there and he was sunning himself to getdry.

3. Richard Rosenfeld:

   They can irritate and cause more problems than good.

4. Phyllis Schlafly:

   I only went to law school to irritate the feminists.

5. Bruno Ganz:

   The script has to grab me, irritate me, seduce me. I do not want to repeat myself with my roles.