irritative
English
Etymology
irritate + -ive
Adjective
irritative (comparative more irritative, superlative most irritative)
- serving to excite or irritate
- an irritative agent
- accompanied with, or produced by, increased action or irritation
- an irritative fever
- (Can we find and add a quotation of E. Darwin to this entry?)
Noun
irritative (plural irritatives)
- Any substance causing irritation; an irritant.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for irritative in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
French
Adjective
irritative
- feminine singular of irritatif
Italian
Adjective
irritative
- feminine plural of irritativo
Anagrams
- irritatevi
- ritiratevi