Term Gallery logo

Meanings of irritative in English

(Used of physical stimuli) serving to stimulate or excite.

Related terms
Synonyms
Examples for "irritating"
Examples for "irritating"
1
For five minutes they discussed Blomkvist's shortcomings in the most irritating terms.
The girl with the dragon tattoo
2
Sabina smiled, pleased that he found their situation amusing rather than irritating.
A fare to remember: just whistle\driven to distraction\taken for...
3
The man in question would have no idea how irritating it was.
The South African
4
The two-second delay on the line, that irritating echo, didn't help matters.
An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
5
Some people find them drying and irritating because they often contain alcohol.
News.com.au
Usage of irritative in English
1
A history of heart disease was positively associated with LUTS and with irritative symptoms.
Pubmed
2
High cultivation may help to self-command, but it multiplies the chances of irritative contact.
The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft
3
Constipation, worms, and piles have an irritative influence which is often very seriously felt.
Plain Facts for Old and Young
4
The irritative muscular motions continue, as those concerned in the circulation, in secretion, in respiration.
Zoonomia; Or, the Laws of Organic Life, Vol. I
5
Whatever illfeeling or irritative may be in the air is readily vented upon the Greek.
Europe—Whither Bound? / Being Letters of Travel from the Capital...
6
In two other cases, MEG localized to the more peripheral parts of the irritative zone.
Pubmed
7
The irritative response of uninvolved skin is a serious limitation of dithranol therapy in psoriasis.
Pubmed
8
We present a case of irritative contact dermatitis after exposure to the sap of Agave americana.
Pubmed
9
He was confined to his bed some two weeks, suffering from circumscribed peritonitis with irritative fever.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
10
Total, irritative and obstructive AUA scores were compared in the 2 groups using analysis of covariance.
Pubmed
11
A great additional quantity of pleasurable sensation is occasioned by this increased exertion of the irritative motions.
Zoonomia; Or, the Laws of Organic Life, Vol. I
12
Hence this undulation of indistinct sound makes another concomitant circle of irritative ideas, which continues throughout the day.
Zoonomia; Or, the Laws of Organic Life, Vol. I
13
And thus the other irritative trains of motions, which are associated with it, become disordered by their sympathy.
Zoonomia; Or, the Laws of Organic Life, Vol. I
14
This case suggests that irritative urinary symptoms can be the first clinical manifestation in patients with bladder cancer.
Pubmed
15
Electrophysiological testing revealed small brief motor unit potentials with fibrillations and positive sharp waves consistent with an irritative myopathy.
Pubmed
16
In the same way the various types of irritative conditions, physical and mental, may be considered as exciting moments.
Pathology of Lying, Accusation, and Swindling: A Study in Forens...
About this term
More collocations
Irritative through the time