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Irritate vs Buzzkill - What's the difference?

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Irritate is a synonym of buzzkill.


As a verb irritate

is (lb) to provoke impatience, anger, or displeasure.

As a noun buzzkill is

something or someone that spoils an otherwise enjoyable event.

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 ----

    buzzkill

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something or someone that spoils an otherwise enjoyable event.
  • A person who attends a social event and occupies his or her time with other activities than those offered at the event.
  • Synonyms

    * (something or someone who spoils an enjoyable event) dampener, killjoy (person), party-pooper (person)