Word Meanings - IRRITATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To render null and void. Abp. Bramhall.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of IRRITATE)

• Aggravate
• Exasperate
• provoke
• wound
• heighten
• intensify
• irritate
• make worse
• increase
• enhance embitter
• magnify
• Anger Enrage
• vex
• kindle
• fret
• ruffle
• chafe
• infuriate
• exasperate
• incense
• inflame
• imbitter
• Annoy
• Tease
• disturb
• affront
• molest
• pain
• disquiet
• incommode
• tantalize
• bother
• weary
• inconvenience
• plague
• discommode
• harass
• trouble
• Chafe
• Gall
• rub
• chagrin
• tease
• disappoint
• grieve
• annoy
• worry
• calcitrate
• re sent
• resist
• fidget
• writhe
• Enrage
• Provoke
• incite
• madden
• excite
• aggravate
• embitter

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of IRRITATE)

• Suit
• aid
• benefit
• subserve
• assist
• help
• Compose
• calm
• allay
• appease
• please
• soothe
• delight
• gratify
• recreate
• entertain
• relieve
• refresh

Related words: (words related to IRRITATE)

• ASSISTANTLY
  In a manner to give aid.
• TEASER
  A jager gull. (more info) 1. One who teases or vexes.
• DELIGHTING
  Giving delight; gladdening. -- De*light"ing*ly, adv. Jer. Taylor.
• INTENSIFY
  To render more intense; as, to intensify heat or cold; to intensify colors; to intensify a photographic negative; to intensify animosity. Bacon. How piercing is the sting of pride By want embittered and intensified. Longfellow.
• TROUBLER
  One who troubles or disturbs; one who afflicts or molests; a disturber; as, a troubler of the peace. The rich troublers of the world's repose. Waller.
• DISQUIETTUDE
  Want of peace or tranquility; uneasiness; disturbance; agitation; anxiety. Fears and disquietude, and unavoidable anxieties of mind. Abp. Sharp.
• INFLAMER
  The person or thing that inflames. Addison.
• IMBITTER
  To make bitter; hence, to make distressing or more distressing; to make sad, morose, sour, or malignant. Is there anything that more imbitters the enjoyment of this life than shame South. Imbittered against each other by former contests. Bancroft.
• GRIEVE
  1. To occasion grief to; to wound the sensibilities of; to make sorrowful; to cause to suffer; to affect; to hurt; to try. Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God. Eph. iv. 30. The maidens grieved themselves at my concern. Cowper, 2. To sorrow over;
• DISQUIETLY
  In a disquiet manner; uneasily; as, he rested disquietly that night. Wiseman.
• ASSISTANCE
  1. The act of assisting; help; aid; furtherance; succor; support. Without the assistance of a mortal hand. Shak. 2. An assistant or helper; a body of helpers. Wat Tyler killed by valiant Walworth, the lord mayor of London, and his assistance,
• DELIGHTLESS
  Void of delight. Thomson.
• FIDGETY
  Restless; uneasy. Lowell.
• INCOMMODE
  An inconvenience. Strype.
• INFLAMED
  Represented as burning, or as adorned with tongues of flame. (more info) 1. Set on fire; enkindled; heated; congested; provoked; exasperated.
• BENEFIT SOCIETY
  A society or association formed for mutual insurance, as among tradesmen or in labor unions, to provide for relief in sickness, old age, and for the expenses of burial. Usually called friendly society in Great Britain.
• DISQUIETMENT
  State of being disquieted; uneasiness; harassment. Hopkins.
• RUFFLEMENT
  The act of ruffling.
• CALCITRATE
  To kick.
• ENHANCEMENT
  The act of increasing, or state of being increased; augmentation; aggravation; as, the enhancement of value, price, enjoyments, crime.
• ON-HANGER
  A hanger-on.
• REINCREASE
  To increase again.
• UNRESISTANCE
  Nonresistance; passive submission; irresistance. Bp. Hall.
• MISKINDLE
  To kindle amiss; to inflame to a bad purpose; to excite wrongly.
• DERANGER
  One who deranges.
• SELF-KINDLED
  Kindled of itself, or without extraneous aid or power. Dryden.
• WANGER
  A pillow for the cheek; a pillow. His bright helm was his wanger. Chaucer.
• DOUBLEGANGER
  An apparition or double of a living person; a doppelgänger. Either you are Hereward, or you are his doubleganger. C. Kingsley.
• OVERTROUBLED
  Excessively troubled.
• TRUFFLE
  Any one of several kinds of roundish, subterranean fungi, usually of a blackish color. The French truffle and the English truffle are much esteemed as articles of food. Truffle worm , the larva of a fly of the genus Leiodes, injurious