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Annoyed vs Irritate - What's the difference?

annoyed | irritate |

As verbs the difference between annoyed and irritate

is that annoyed is past tense of annoy while irritate is to provoke impatience, anger, or displeasure.

As an adjective annoyed

is troubled, irritated by something unwanted or unliked; vexed.

annoyed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (annoy)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Troubled, irritated by something unwanted or unliked; vexed.
  • Anagrams

    *

    irritate

    English

    Verb

    (irritat)
  • (lb) To provoke impatience, anger, or displeasure.
  • *
  • *:Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.
  • (lb) To introduce irritability or irritation in.
  • (lb) To cause or induce displeasure or irritation.
  • (lb) To induce pain in (all or part of a body or organism).
  • (lb) To render null and void.
  • :(Archbishop Bramhall)
  • Synonyms

    * provoke * rile

    Antonyms

    * please

    See also

    * exasperate * peeve * disturb English intransitive verbs English transitive verbs ----