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Irritated vs Testy - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between irritated and testy

is that irritated is experiencing a feeling of irritation while testy is easily annoyed, irritable.

As a verb irritated

is past tense of irritate.

irritated

English

Verb

(head)
  • (irritate)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Experiencing a feeling of irritation.
  • (pathology) Inflamed and painful.

    • Synonyms

    * (experiencing a feeling of irritation) (l)

    testy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Easily annoyed, irritable.
  • Marked by impatience or ill humor.
    • He made testy remarks.

    Derived terms

    * testily * testiness

    Synonyms

    * touchy * tetchy

    See also

    * heady * teston

    Anagrams

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