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IRRITATIVE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does irritative mean?
• IRRITATIVE (adjective)
The adjective IRRITATIVE has 1 sense:
1. (used of physical stimuli) serving to stimulate or excite
Familiarity information: IRRITATIVE used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(used of physical stimuli) serving to stimulate or excite
Synonyms:
irritating; irritative
Context example:
an irritative agent
Similar:
stimulative (capable of arousing or accelerating physiological or psychological activity or response by a chemical agent)
Derivation:
irritate (excite to an abnormal condition, or chafe or inflame)
irritate (excite to some characteristic action or condition, such as motion, contraction, or nervous impulse, by the application of a stimulus)
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