Irritate vs Chagrin - What's the difference?
irritate | chagrin | Related terms |
(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)
Distress of mind caused by a failure of aims or plans, want of appreciation, mistakes etc; vexation or mortification.
* 1876 , , Rose In Bloom , ch. 8:
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To bother or vex; to mortify.
To be vexed or annoyed.
In transitive terms the difference between irritate and chagrin
is that irritate is to induce pain in (all or part of a body or organism) while chagrin is to bother or vex; to mortify.In intransitive terms the difference between irritate and chagrin
is that irritate is to cause or induce displeasure or irritation while chagrin is to be vexed or annoyed.As a noun chagrin is
distress of mind caused by a failure of aims or plans, want of appreciation, mistakes etc; vexation or mortification.irritate
English
Verb
(irritat)Synonyms
* provoke * rileAntonyms
* pleasechagrin
English
Noun
- [H]e alone knew how deep was the deluded man's chagrin at the failure of the little plot which he fancied was prospering finely.
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Usage notes
* Often used in the form to one’s chagrin .Synonyms
* (distress of mind) disquiet, fretfulness, mortification, peevishness, vexation * (type of leather) shagreenDescendants
* shagreenSee also
* disgust * disappointmentVerb
(en verb)- She was chagrined to note that the paint had dried into a blotchy mess.
- (Fielding)