irritably

1. 1.

   in a petulant manner

   “he said testily: `Go away!'”

   Synonymstestilypetulantlypettishly
2. 2.

   in an irritable manner

   “she had become irritably exact”

Questions about irritably

What does irritably mean?

irritably means "in a petulant manner". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in irritably?

irritably has 4 syllables: ir-ri-ta-bly. The stress falls on "ri".

What is another word for irritably?

Close synonyms include testily, petulantly, pettishly. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is irritably a common word?

irritably is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.