Displease vs Irritate - What's the difference?
displease | irritate | Related terms |
To make not pleased; to excite a feeling of disapprobation or dislike in; to be disagreeable to; to offend; to vex; -- often followed by with'' or ''at . It usually expresses less than to anger, vex, irritate, or provoke.
* Bible, Psalms lxxxv. 5 (Book of Common Prayer)
To fail to satisfy; to miss of.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
To give displeasure or offense.
(lb) To provoke impatience, anger, or displeasure.
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*: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)
Irritate is a synonym of displease.
Irritate is a antonym of displease.
As verbs the difference between displease and irritate
is that displease is to make not pleased; to excite a feeling of disapprobation or dislike in; to be disagreeable to; to offend; to vex; -- often followed by with or at. It usually expresses less than to anger, vex, irritate, or provoke while irritate is to provoke impatience, anger, or displeasure.displease
English
Verb
- The boy's rudeness displeased me.
- Wilt thou be displeased at us forever?
- I shall displease my ends else.