| 单词 | irritable |
| 释义 | ir·ri·ta·ble a. < an irritable disposition > < such irritable neurotic people > broadly b. < an irritable colon > c. of protoplasm or a living organism Synonyms: < a hot day and the clerk in the store was irritable … had not slept much the night before and he had a headache — Lyle Saxon > fractious may suggest a wilful or truculent unruliness or perverse crossness < those who are spoilt and fractious, who must have everything their own way — F.A.Swinnerton > < a wary, querulous, grumbling, vain, testy, self-righteous, honorable man, a defiant and fractious servant and a high-handed and mistrustful master — Arthur Schlesinger b.1917 > peevish may suggest childish irritability about petty matters < peevish because he called her and she did not come, and he threw his bowl of tea on the ground like a willful child — Pearl Buck > < peevish, and wrathful, often insolent, and quarrelsome — Charles Kingsley > snappish may apply to an irritability manifesting itself in sharp, tart, sarcastic objections and rejoinders < a little snappish at reflecting how many miles he had to post — Samuel Butler †1902 > waspish may connote testy, resentful, stinging irascibility < a little waspish woman who would have been ahead of me snapped out at a man who seemed to be with her — C.S.Lewis > petulant may suggest sulky and capricious dissatisfaction and complaint as though resolved to be displeased < in his youth the spoiled child of Boston, in the middle life he was petulant and irritable, inclined to sulk when his will was crossed — V.L.Parrington > pettish may apply to childish, sulky ill humor of or as if of one slighted < she heard Amy's voice in pettish exclamation: “Oh, get out, you!” — Arnold Bennett > huffy or huffish may suggest a tending to take undue offense or to have one's arrogant pride hurt and to parade one's blustering irritation < rather huffy, and somewhat on the high-and-mighty order with him — Harriet B. Stowe > fretful suggests ill-humored continuing irritability and complaining or whining peevishness < his voice was peevish, almost whining, and there were certain overtones in it which recalled the fretful complaining voice — W.H.Wright > querulous stresses the idea of discontented whining complaining, often childishly futile, resentful, and arising from determined inclination to be displeased < the man himself grew old and querulous and hysterical with failure and repeated disappointment and chronic poverty — Aldous Huxley > |
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