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Uncomfortable vs Irritability - What's the difference?

uncomfortable | irritability |

As an adjective uncomfortable

is not comfortable.

As a noun irritability is

the state or quality of being irritable; quick excitability; petulance; fretfulness; as, irritability of temper.

uncomfortable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Not comfortable.
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    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round. But his Roman collar galled him, his cossack stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells.}}
  • Experiencing discomfort.
  • Uneasy or anxious.
  • Put off or disgusted.

    • Antonyms

    * comfortable * ergonomic

    irritability

    English

    Noun

  • The state or quality of being irritable; quick excitability; petulance; fretfulness; as, irritability of temper.
  • (physiology) A natural susceptibility, characteristic of all living organisms, tissues, and cells, to the influence of certain stimuli, response being manifested in a variety of ways.
  • * E. Darwin
    • We find a renitency in ourselves to ascribe life and irritability to the cold and motionless fibres of plants.
  • (medicine) A condition of morbid excitability of an organ or part of the body; undue susceptibility to the influence of stimuli.

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