different between tingle vs irritate

English

Etymology

From Middle English tinglen, a variant of tinclen (“to tinkle”). More at tinkle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t????l/
• Rhymes: -????l

Verb

tingle (third-person singular simple present tingles, present participle tingling, simple past and past participle tingled)

1. (intransitive) To feel a prickling or mildly stinging sensation.
   • 1913, Eleanor Porter, Pollyanna, Chapter 8:

     For five minutes Pollyanna worked swiftly, deftly, combing a refractory curl into fluffiness, perking up a drooping ruffle at the neck, or shaking a pillow into plumpness so that the head might have a better pose. Meanwhile the sick woman, frowning prodigiously, and openly scoffing at the whole procedure, was, in spite of herself, beginning to tingle with a feeling perilously near to excitement.

2. (transitive) To cause to feel a prickling or mildly stinging sensation.

3. (intransitive) To ring, to tinkle.
4. (transitive) To cause to ring, to tinkle.
   • 1874, Lewis Carroll, The Hunting of the Snark, fit 2:

     […] the Captain they trusted so well

     Had only one notion for crossing the ocean,

     And that was to tingle his bell.

5. (intransitive) To make ringing sounds; to twang.
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 13

     Sideways leaning, we sideways darted; every ropeyarn tingling like a wire; the two tall masts buckling like Indian canes in land tornadoes.

   • June 9, 1860, Charles Dickens, All the Year Round

     sharp tingling bells

Synonyms

• (to feel a prickly sensation): itch
• (to ring, cause to ring): tinkle

Derived terms

• tingly

Translations

Noun

tingle (plural tingles)

1. A prickling or mildly stinging sensation.

Translations

Anagrams

• Etling, elting, linget, niglet

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