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irritating

adjectiveverbattested in dialogue

  • //ˈɪə.ɹɪ.teɪ.tɪŋ//

Causing irritation, annoyance or pain.

adjective

  1. 1

    Causing irritation, annoyance or pain.

    irritating bureaucracy

    irritating music

    irritating person

    irritating sounds

  2. 2

    Stimulating or exciting a response.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of irritatepresent participle and gerund of irritate

Forms

comparative
more irritating
superlative
most irritating
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).