Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (
a.) ill-tempered; impatient; easily inflamed or exasperated; as, an irritable temper.
2. (a.) Very susceptible of anger or passion
3. (a.) Endowed with irritability; susceptible of irritation; capable of being excited to action by the application of certain stimuli.
4. (a.) Susceptible of irritation; unduly sensitive to irritants or stimuli. See Irritation, n., 3.
Greek
5520. cholao -- to be melancholy, mad, angry ... be angry. From chole; to be bilious, ie (by implication)
irritable (enraged, "choleric")
-- be angry. see GREEK chole. (cholate) -- 1 Occurrence. 5519, 5520.
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Proverbs 16:32He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that rules his spirit than he that takes a city.
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James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.
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Proverbs 15:1
A soft answer turns away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
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1 Corinthians 11:1-34
Be you followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.
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Romans 12:21
Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.
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James 1:20
For the wrath of man works not the righteousness of God.
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1 Corinthians 13:1-13
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
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Colossians 3:12
Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, long-suffering;
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Galatians 5:22-23
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
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Library
Attributes of Love.
... As, however, the states of the sensibility are not directly under the control of
the will, there may be irritable or impatient feelings, when the heart remains ...
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The Highway of Holiness
... We are hard and unyielding. We are sensitive and easily hurt. We get irritable,
envious and critical. We are resentful and unforgiving. ...
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General Index to Socrates' Ecclesiastical History.
... Alexander, the Paphlagonian, a Novatian presbyter, [73]66. Alexandrians, an irritable
people, [74]105. ... Antiochenes, irritable temper of, [148]88. ...
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Impressive Phrases
... evil, misfortune, corruption, and disaster. exacting, suspicious, irritable,
and wayward. ... irritable, choleric, petulant, and susceptible. J. ...
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Felicitous Phrases
... incomparable, matchless, and immortal. inconsiderate, irritable, and insolent. ...
irresolute, procrastinating, and unenterprising. irritable, sulky, and furious. ...
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Significant Phrases
... excessive and unreasonable. excitable and irritable. exclusive and limited. ... irreverence
and ingratitude. irritable and churlish [churlish = boorish or vulgar]. ...
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Mark xii. 34
... Suppose, for a moment, one with a crippled body, full of the seeds of hereditary
disease, poor, friendless, irritable in temper, low in understanding; suppose ...
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Brokenness
... It is self, too, who is often doing Christian work. It is always self who gets
irritable and envious and resentful and critical and worried. ...
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What are Evidences of Backsliding in Heart.
... Whenever, therefore, there is an irritable, uncontrolled temper allowed to manifest
itself to those around, you may know there is a backslidden heart. ...
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Training in the Sanitarium
... The inattention of the children and the daily routine made her feel irritable, she
said, but she kept steadily on, hoping in time to carry out a purpose which ...
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Thesaurus
Irritable (2 Occurrences)... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (a.) ill-tempered; impatient; easily inflamed or
exasperated; as, an
irritable temper.
...Irritable (2 Occurrences).
.../i/irritable.htm - 7kIrrigation
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Warm (25 Occurrences)
... 4. (superl.) Fig.: Not cool, indifferent, lukewarm, or the like, in spirit or temper;
zealous; ardent; fervent; excited; sprightly; irritable; excitable. ...
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Irritate (2 Occurrences)
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Fiery (47 Occurrences)
... 2. (a.) Vehement; ardent; very active; impetuous. 3. (a.) Passionate; easily provoked;
irritable. 4. (a.) Unrestrained; fierce; mettlesome; spirited. ...
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Resentful (3 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (a.) Inclined to resent; easily provoked to anger;
irritable. Multi-Version Concordance Resentful (3 Occurrences). ...
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Stimulate (3 Occurrences)
... 2. (vt) To excite; to irritate; especially, to excite the activity of (a nerve or
an irritable muscle), as by electricity. Multi-Version Concordance ...
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Heron (2 Occurrences)
... "The herons are wading-birds, peculiarly irritable, remarkable for their voracity,
frequenting marshes and oozy rivers, and spread over the regions of the East ...
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Philippians (2 Occurrences)
... Here was none of the shuffling and the indecision of the Asiatics, none of the
irritable vanity and the uncertain levity of the Greek communities..... ...
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Herod (45 Occurrences)
... disease. His temper became more irritable, as the malady made progress, and
he made both himself and his court unutterably miserable. ...
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Bible Concordance
Irritable (2 Occurrences)1 Corinthians 13:5 doesn't behave itself inappropriately, doesn't seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;
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Proverbs 21:19 It is better to dwell in a desert land. than with a contentious and irritable woman.
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Philippians (2 Occurrences)
Herod (45 Occurrences)
Discomfiture (6 Occurrences)
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