different between exaggerate vs irritate

English

Etymology

From Latin exaggeratus, past participle of exaggerare (“to heap up, increase, enlarge, magnify, amplify, exaggerate”), from ex (“out, up”) + aggerare (“to heap up”), from agger (“a pile, heap, mound, dike, mole, pier, etc.”), from aggerere, adgerere (“to bring together”), from ad (“to, toward”) +? gerere (“to carry”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???zæ.d??.?e?t/, /???zæ.d??.?e?t/
• Hyphenation: ex?ag?ger?ate

Verb

exaggerate (third-person singular simple present exaggerates, present participle exaggerating, simple past and past participle exaggerated)

1. To overstate, to describe more than is fact.

Synonyms

• big up
• overexaggerate
• overstate
• hyperbolize

Antonyms

• (overstate): belittle, downplay, understate, trivialize

Derived terms

Related terms

• exaggeration

Translations

Further reading

• exaggerate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• exaggerate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• exaggerate at OneLook Dictionary Search

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ek.sa?.?e?ra?.te/, [?ks?ä?????ä?t??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ek.sad.d??e?ra.te/, [??z?d????????t??]

Verb

exagger?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of exagger?

English

Etymology

From Latin irr?t?tus, past participle of irr?t? (“excite, irritate, incite, stimulate”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????te?t/

Verb

irritate (third-person singular simple present irritates, present participle irritating, simple past and past participle irritated)

1. (transitive) To provoke impatience, anger, or displeasure in.

   • Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.

2. (intransitive) To cause or induce displeasure or irritation.
3. (transitive) To induce pain in (all or part of a body or organism).
4. (transitive, obsolete, Scotland, law) To render null and void.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Archbishop Bramhall to this entry?)

Synonyms

• provoke
• rile

Antonyms

• placate
• please
• soothe

Related terms

Translations

See also

• exasperate
• peeve
• disturb

Italian

Adjective

irritate

1. feminine plural of irritato

Verb

irritate

1. second-person plural present of irritare
2. second-person plural imperative of irritare
3. feminine plural past participle of irritare

Anagrams

• arteriti, atterrii, irretita, ritirate, tiritera, triterai

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ir.ri??ta?.te/, [?r?i??t?ä?t??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ir.ri?ta.te/, [ir?i?t???t??]

Verb

irr?t?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of irr?t?

References

• irritate in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• irritate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette