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irritably

/ir-i-tuh-buhl/US // ˈɪr ɪ tə bəl //UK // (ˈɪrɪtəbəl) //

烦躁地,可气地,烦躁不安地,恼怒地

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : easily irritated or annoyed; readily excited to impatience or anger.
    • : Physiology, Biology. displaying irritability.
    • : Pathology. susceptible to physical irritation.
    • : Medicine/Medical. abnormally sensitive to a stimulus.

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Examples

  • One was a randomized-controlled trial done at Harvard Medical School with patients suffering from irritable bowel syndrome.

  • Irritably, he complies, but when the stewardess moves on, he reclines the chair again, muttering balefully under his breath.

  • Every time a gust ruffled her hair she shook her head irritably, wondering that she had ever loved the wind.

  • "For Heaven's sake, don't be a prude, Moya," Joyce snapped irritably.

  • I've a good mind not to get ready at all,' said Sarah irritably and rather foolishly.

  • George asked his sister, rather irritably, when he returned.

  • He looked irritably under lumped old quilts, piles of table linen, and cloth-shielded pictures.