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irritatory

irritatory adjective: producing irritation.

Adjective

irritatory (comparative more irritatory, superlative most irritatory)

  1. Producing irritation.
    • For nothing hinders Wounds from cicatrising; more than concourse of Humor to the diseaſed Part ; and keeping things irritatory about the Orifice of the Wound1659, John Hales, Golden Remains of the Ever Memorable Mr. John Hales

Forms of irritatory

comparativemore irritatory
superlativemost irritatory

Origin of irritatory

From irritate + -ory.

Questions about irritatory

What does irritatory mean?
Irritatory means producing irritation.
What part of speech is irritatory?
Irritatory is an adjective.

Words near irritatory in the dictionary

  1. irritative
  2. irritativeness
  3. irritatives
  4. irritator
  5. irritators
  6. irritatory
  7. irrorate
  8. irrorated
  9. irrorates
  10. irrorating
  11. irroration

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