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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[L.

irritabilis

: cf. F.

irritable

. See

Capable of being irritated.

Very susceptible of anger or passion; easily inflamed or exasperated;

as, an

irritable

temper

Vicious, old, and

irritable

Tennyson.

(Physiol.)

Endowed with irritability; susceptible of irritation; capable of being excited to action by the application of certain stimuli.

Syn. – Excitable; irascible; touchy; fretful; peevish.

Adj.

[from irritate.] Susceptible of excitement, or of heat and action, as animal bodies.

Very susceptible of anger or passion; easily inflamed or exasperated; as an irritable temper.

In physiology, susceptible of contraction, in consequence of the appulse of an external body.

In general, there is nothing irritable in the animal body, but the muscular fibers.