irritant

From French irritant, equivalent to irritate +‎ -ant.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪɹɪtənt/

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irritant (not comparable)

1. Causing irritation or inflammation.
2. (law, Scotland) Rendering null and void; conditionally invalidating.
   • 1603, Hayward, An Answer to the first part of a certaine conference concerning succession:

     The states elected Harry, Duke of Anjou, for their king, with this clause irritant; that, if he did violate any part of his oath, the people should owe him no allegiance.

irritant (plural irritants)

1. Any medication designed to cause irritation
2. A source of irritation.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [i.riˈtan]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [i.riˈtant]

irritant m or f (masculine and feminine plural irritants)

1. irritating, annoying

irritant

1. gerund of irritar

• “irritant”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “irritant”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “irritant” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “irritant” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Borrowed from French irritant.

• IPA^(key): /ˌi.riˈtɑnt/, /ˌɪ.riˈtɑnt/

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• Hyphenation: ir‧ri‧tant
• Rhymes: -ɑnt

irritant (comparative irritanter, superlative irritantst)

1. annoying, causing irritation or annoyance; vexatious

   Synonyms: vervelend, ergerlijk

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irritant

1. present participle of irriter

irritant (feminine irritante, masculine plural irritants, feminine plural irritantes)

1. irritating; annoying

irritant m (plural irritants)

1. (medicine) irritant

• “irritant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

irrītant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of irrītō