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Irritable vs Umbrageous - What's the difference?

irritable | umbrageous |

As adjectives the difference between irritable and umbrageous

is that irritable is capable of being irritated while umbrageous is having shade; shady; having shade provided by thick foliage.

irritable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Capable of being irritated.
  • Easily exasperated or excited.
  • Responsive to stimuli.

    • Derived terms

    * irritably * irritability * irritable bowel syndrome

    umbrageous

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having shade; shady; having shade provided by thick foliage.
  • *1858 , R M Ballantyne, The Coral Island :
    • ... without which the stem could not have supported its heavy and umbrageous top.
  • *1891 , Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country , Nebraska 2005, p. 130:
  • *:Rhodes gazed wistfully into the dense umbrageous tangle whence his host had disappeared.
  • (figuratively) irritable, easily upset

    • Derived terms

    * umbrageously * umbrageousness