irritative
English
Etymology
Adjective
irritative (comparative more irritative, superlative most irritative)
- (medicine) serving to excite or irritate
- an irritative agent
- (medicine) accompanied with, or produced by, increased action or irritation
- an irritative fever
- 1794–1796, Erasmus Darwin, Zoonomia; or, The Laws of Organic Life, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC:
- For the irritative ideas of the apparent motions of objects are now excited by irritation from internal stimulus
Noun
irritative (plural irritatives)
Derived terms
References
- “irritative”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
French
Adjective
irritative
- feminine singular of irritatif
Italian
Adjective
irritative
- feminine plural of irritativo