irritatable

English

Etymology

irritate +‎ -able

Adjective

irritatable (comparative more irritatable, superlative most irritatable)

  1. Capable of being irritated; irritable.
    • 1788, F. Swediaur, Practical observations on the more obstinate and inveterate venereal complaints:
      Such a diet will be very proper for strong, vigorous constitutions; but for weak, delicate, or irritatable ones, it is sometimes highly improper.
    • 1917, Louis Pope Gratacap, The End: How the Great War was Stopped : a Novelistic Vagary:
      The irritatable surfaces were confined to my head only. Not the spinal column nor the ganglionic centres along the thigh responded to this inexplicable force.
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