Crossword-Solution: IRRITATION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Irritation | n. | The act of irritating, or exciting, or the state of being irritated; excitement; stimulation, usually of an undue and uncomfortable kind; especially, excitement of anger or passion; provocation; annoyance; anger. |
| Irritation | n. | The act of exciting, or the condition of being excited to action, by stimulation; -- as, the condition of an organ of sense, when its nerve is affected by some external body; esp., the act of exciting muscle fibers to contraction, by artificial stimulation; as, the irritation of a motor nerve by electricity; also, the condition of a muscle and nerve, under such stimulation. |
| Irritation | n. | A condition of morbid excitability or oversensitiveness of an organ or part of the body; a state in which the application of ordinary stimuli produces pain or excessive or vitiated action. |
We have 54 clues for the answer “IRRITATION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| the psychological state of being irritated or annoyed | 1 answer |
| The pea, in "The Princess and the Pea" | 1 answer |
| IRRITANCY | 1 answer |
| Affliction of the skin or the mind | 1 answer |
| Uredo | 3 answers |
| querulousness | 4 answers |
| Pique condition? | 4 answers |
| Thorn in one's side | 8 answers |
| Migraine. | 10 answers |
| ABNORMAL SENSITIVITY TO STIMULATION | 11 answers |
| instigation | 12 answers |
| Annoyance | 17 answers |
| Exasperation | 17 answers |
| Pain in the neck | 18 answers |
| irritator | 18 answers |
| kidder | 20 answers |
| Provocateur | 20 answers |
| provocation | 21 answers |
| excitation | 22 answers |
| Gadfly | 25 answers |
| Headache | 27 answers |
| Rabble-rouser | 28 answers |
| Ire | 29 answers |
| aggravation | 30 answers |
| irritability | 30 answers |
| irritant | 30 answers |
| Indignation | 32 answers |
| Incitement. | 34 answers |
| excitant | 34 answers |
| Heckler | 34 answers |
| tormentor | 35 answers |
| rubbing | 37 answers |
| Scandalmonger | 38 answers |
| Nuisance | 39 answers |
| Grievance | 43 answers |
| firebrand | 45 answers |
| Disquiet | 46 answers |
| incommode | 47 answers |
| disapproval | 52 answers |
| Fret. | 53 answers |
| Sore | 54 answers |
| Umbrage | 54 answers |
| harassment | 60 answers |
| Trouble-maker. | 61 answers |
| Pest | 62 answers |
| Itch | 64 answers |
| Problem | 70 answers |
| Fuss | 71 answers |
| Displeasure | 71 answers |
| Vexation | 75 answers |
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Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with IRRITATION (5)
Hatred, by a gradual and quiet process, will even be transformed to love, unless the change be impeded by a continually new irritation of the original feeling of hostility.
Like {dusty deck} or {gonkulator}, but connotes that the thing described is not just an irritation but an active menace to health and sanity.
This line of thinking has been a constant source of irritation and inefficiency since the OSS became the CIA during the Truman administration.
Add to all this, Cedric had fasted since noon, and his usual supper hour was long past, a cause of irritation common to country squires, both in ancient and modern times.
The wife went home with a sense of defeat mixed with an irritation about this girl which she could not quell or account for.
Quotes with IRRITATION (3)
It has made me better loving you... it has made me wiser, and easier, and brighter. I used to want a great many things before, and to be angry that I did not have them. Theoretically, I was satisfied. I flattered myself that I had limited my wants. But I was subject to irritation; I used to have morbid sterile hateful fits of hunger, of desire. Now I really am satisfied, because I can’t think of anything better. It’s just as when one has been trying to spell out a book in the…
You scare me, Ryan Daley. Even more than those demons outside that scream for my death. How is it that I want what you want? I’ve spent an eternity feeling powerless. Love did that to me — robbed me of all control. I never expected to feel this way again. I don’t want to feel.’‘Neither did I,’ Ryan rasps, ‘because feeling anything at all was dangerous. If I let myself feel, then maybe I’d have to believe what everyone was saying — that Lauren was dead. But from the moment I l…
They don't understand it. They're not old enough to know the first instinct of irritation should be avoided in order to keep an open mind.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1993–2015).