as in annoyed
subjected to and reacting with irritation
irritated viewers were bombarding the station with complaints about the game's delayed start
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as in bothered
to disturb the peace of mind of (someone) especially by repeated disagreeable acts
constant chatter irritated the student, who was trying to concentrate on a hard assignment
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Recent Examples of irritated
Denise Primbet, Glamour, 24 Feb. 2025
This leave-on exfoliator contains 2% salicylic acid, which helps exfoliate away dead skin cells, unclogs pores, and hydrates and soothes irritated skin.
—Kiana Murden, Vogue, 21 Feb. 2025
Outside, an irritated Duke asks Reacher what the holdup was.
—Chris Klimek, Vulture, 20 Feb. 2025
Although the workers weren’t tested, the study says that one of them had irritated eyes before the cat fell ill — a common bird flu symptom.
—Amy Maxmen, CNN, 14 Feb. 2025
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Adjective
Think: irritated skin, excessive dryness and redness.
—Denise Primbet, Glamour, 24 Feb. 2025
This leave-on exfoliator contains 2% salicylic acid, which helps exfoliate away dead skin cells, unclogs pores, and hydrates and soothes irritated skin.
—Kiana Murden, Vogue, 21 Feb. 2025
Outside, an irritated Duke asks Reacher what the holdup was.
—Chris Klimek, Vulture, 20 Feb. 2025
Although the workers weren’t tested, the study says that one of them had irritated eyes before the cat fell ill — a common bird flu symptom.
—Amy Maxmen, CNN, 14 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for irritated
Adjective
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Some onlookers cheered for the arrestees and joined in their chants, while others seemed annoyed by the disruption to foot traffic.—
Minyvonne Burke,
NBC News,
13 Mar. 2025
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Griffin became visibly annoyed when Hostin continued with her thought.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
13 Mar. 2025
Verb
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With the exception of the Russell 2000, which gained 1%, none of the major indices bothered to get out of bed the day after Christmas.—
JJ Kinahan,
Forbes,
27 Dec. 2024
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In fact, if you can’t be bothered even to reach for the remote to select this new button, the latest firmware update will also automatically start playing the next episode after a countdown.—
John Archer,
Forbes,
23 Dec. 2024
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When Myers was 16 years old, Gilles Bouchard scratched his head with what to do with him.—
Joshua Kloke,
The Athletic,
4 Jan. 2025
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Holding out hope for a big win, the woman bought a third ticket and scratched it in her car, according to the release.—
Lauren Liebhaber,
Kansas City Star,
3 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Lauren handles the allegations as well as can be expected of someone in her position: with increasingly desperate and tearful pleas to Dave to see reason, culminating in exasperated defeat.—
Anusha Praturu,
Vulture,
7 Mar. 2025
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The stiff, exasperated rule-followers voters love to see lose.—
Gordon G. Chang,
Newsweek,
3 Mar. 2025
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However, Large Language Models have scraped most of the data that is easily available Expect 2025 to show increasing efforts to obtain data, whether these are business contracts to acquire data, labeling systems to curate yet-untapped data, deploying more sensors, and so on.—
Nisha Talagala,
Forbes,
30 Dec. 2024
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These models are trained on vast, unlicensed datasets scraped from internet and music platforms.—
Virginie Berger,
Forbes,
30 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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During eight tumultuous days in 1988 at the world’s only Deaf university, four students must find a way to lead an angry mob to change the course of history.—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
11 Mar. 2025
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Accept Your Child's Anger When your child has an angry outburst, acknowledge it.—
Miriam Foley,
Parents,
11 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Men’s Pro Singles Recap The venue was rocked by a huge upset on Thursday afternoon, when 16-yr old Floridian No. 40 seed John Lucian Goins shocked the No. 1 seed Ben Johns in the quarters.—
Todd Boss,
Forbes,
10 Mar. 2025
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Was this one of those days for an unthinkable upset?—
Dom Amore,
Hartford Courant,
9 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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He had previously been charged with three counts of forcible rape of a child and three counts of aggravated rape of a child.—
Greg Wehner,
Fox News,
13 Feb. 2025
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Foster is facing a charge of aggravated murder, according to an arrest warrant filed in Licking County Court cited by CNN.—
Jessica Schladebeck,
New York Daily News,
6 Feb. 2025
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“Irritated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/irritated. Accessed 22 Mar. 2025.
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