irritativeadj.
/ˈɪrɪteɪtɪv/ 1. Having the quality of stirring up or exciting to action; now in Physiology or Biology. Having the property of stimulating to vital action, e.g. to sensuous perception, muscular contraction, etc.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > motivation > [adjective] > inciting or instigating
stirring1421
movingc1443
provokingc1443
incitative1490
urgent1559
propulsory1585
pricking1592
pulsive1602
incentive1603
incitatory1610
urging1612
animalizing1617
impellent1620
irritant1636
instigative1644
propulsive1648
promptive1653
parastatic1656
exstimulatory1657
impulsory1659
appelling1666
irritative1686
instigating1702
spurring1702
stimulatinga1732
stimulatory1758
impulsive1788
stimulant1803
stimulative1836
exertivea1856
inciting1855
incitant1886
incitive1888
on-driving1927
incitory1941
the world > life > biology > biological processes > stimulation > [adjective]
inflammatory1733
stimulant1785
irritative1796
stimulating1840
excitatory1874
pressor1890
reafferent1956
stimulatory1968
1686 J. Goad Astro-meteorologica i. xiii. 65 Invested with Power, not Illuminative..but Irritative also.
1794 E. Darwin Zoonomia I. xx. §7. 234 The irritative ideas of objects..are perpetually present to our sense of Sight.
1796 E. Darwin Zoonomia II. 678 Those things, which increase the exertions of all the irritative motions, are termed incitantia.
1822 J. M. Good Study Med. III. 529 Hysteria is a disease of the irritative fibres, hypochondrias of the sentient.
2. Having the quality of causing mental irritation; tending to irritate; annoying, irritating.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > anger > irritation > [adjective] > irritating
stinginga1250
provocativea1600
nettling1607
provokinga1643
provocating1651
urging1655
aggravating1685
irritating1707
piquing1794
enfevering1799
naggy1825
exasperative1837
raspish1854
exasperating1858
nagging1859
riling1860
provocatory1870
irritative1878
enraging1880
irritant1885
naggish1885
antagonizing1896
teasy1901
soddish1922
pissy1930
jerk1947
needling1958
1878 Fraser's Mag. 18 168 Let us put away utterly all irritative thoughts.
1881 R. C. Praed Policy & Passion II. 208 Tones which were specially irritative to Mr. Longleat's temper.
3. Pathology. Characterized by or accompanied with irritation of the system or of some organ.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disordered sensation > [adjective] > irritability
irritating1707
irritable1791
irritative1807
hyperirritable1922
1807 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 17 7 He laboured under a considerable degree of irritative fever.
1873 T. H. Green Introd. Pathol. & Morbid Anat. (ed. 2) 139 Irritative conditions of the bone and periosteum are often attended by a large formation of new bone.
1888 P. H. Pye-Smith Fagge's Princ. & Pract. Med. (ed. 2) I. 70 The immediate effect of wounds in producing what was called irritative fever was confounded with the later appearance of pyæmia.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online September 2020).
<
adj.1686