perturbable

adjective

Definition of perturbablenext
as in irritable

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for perturbable
  1. irritable
  2. irascible
  3. touchy
  4. testy
  5. dramatic
  6. melodramatic
  7. soulful
Adjective
  • People with anxiety may also feel irritable, tense, or restless, and may have a sense of impending danger, panic, or doom.
    Tribune Content Agency, The Mercury News, 14 Nov. 2024
  • Max was admitted to the hospital after experiencing severe pain in July and was diagnosed with transient synovitis, a condition also referred to as irritable hip.
    Marina Watts, Peoplemag, 4 Aug. 2024
Definition of irritable
Adjective
  • Even the typically irascible Joy Behar was comparatively tame while expressing her dissatisfaction.
    Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 6 Nov. 2024
  • Lewis could be briefly irascible, but his kindness almost always triumphed.
    Christopher Carroll, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
Definition of irascible
Adjective
  • But here’s another example of how lies beget lies, leading to some touchy situations.
    Noel Murray, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Why do demons, ghosts and killers put me at ease but sending a touchy email or text stops me in my tracks?
    Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 30 Oct. 2024
Definition of touchy
Adjective
  • Both of those unions have held their own strikes amid testy contract negotiations in the past few years.
    Sara Fischer, Axios, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Alec Baldwin returned to Saturday Night Live as Fox News anchor Bret Baier during the show’s cold open, which spoofed the testy interview with Kamala Harris (Maya Rudolph).
    Carly Thomas, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Oct. 2024
Definition of testy
Adjective
  • Listen to this article The Broncos’ special teams have seen a dramatic turnaround since Sean Payton hired Ben Kotwica before the 2023 season.
    Parker Gabriel, The Denver Post, 14 Nov. 2024
  • Its dramatic decline comes amid broader concerns over the company’s financial stability, recent privacy breaches, and a leadership shake-up.
    Bruce Gil, Quartz, 12 Nov. 2024
Definition of dramatic
Adjective
  • But Walden isn’t a play made up of claws-out shouting and shattering, melodramatic reveals.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2024
  • But where Grapes is relentlessly symphonic and often melodramatic, Unknown—which was finally edited and released 20 years ago—is intimate and restrained, focusing acutely on the slow-motion erosion of the agrarian American dream in a pattern of exploitation that the Dust Bowl only intensified.
    Mark Athitakis, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2024
Definition of melodramatic
Adjective
  • After developing and producing the cult sitcom Freaks and Geeks and directing and producing a slew of movies now considered soulful comedy classics, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up, This Is 40 and Funny People, among them.
    Frank DiGiacomo, Billboard, 5 Nov. 2024
  • In her soulful paintings of New York City’s skyscrapers, Diamond used loose ropes of color that land somewhere between abstraction and figuration.
    Grace Edquist, Vogue, 1 Nov. 2024
Definition of soulful
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