| irretrievable | (adjective) impossible to recover or recoup or overcome | Synonyms: unretrievable |
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| irretrievably | (adverb) in an irretrievable manner | - |
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| irreverence | (noun) a disrespectful act | Synonyms: violation |
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| (noun) an irreverent mental attitude | - |
| irreverent | (adjective) showing lack of due respect or veneration | - |
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| (adjective) not revering god | Synonyms: godless |
| (adjective) characterized by a lightly pert and exuberant quality | Synonyms: impertinent, pert, saucy |
| irreverently | (adverb) without respect | - |
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| (adverb) in an irreverent manner | - |
| irreversibility | (noun) the quality of being irreversible (once done it cannot be changed) | - |
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| irreversible | (adjective) incapable of being reversed | - |
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| irreversibly | (adverb) in an irreversible manner | - |
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| irrevocability | (noun) The state or condition of being impossible to retract or reverse; finality. | - |
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| irrevocable | (adjective) incapable of being retracted or revoked | Synonyms: irrevokable |
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| irrevocably | (adverb) in an irrevocable manner | - |
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| irrevokable | (adjective) incapable of being retracted or revoked | Synonyms: irrevocable |
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| irridenta | (noun) a region that is related ethnically or historically to one country but is controlled politically by another | Synonyms: irredenta |
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| irridentism | (noun) the doctrine that irredenta should be controlled by the country to which they are ethnically or historically related | Synonyms: irredentism |
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| irridentist | (noun) an advocate of irredentism | Synonyms: irredentist |
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| irrigate | (verb) supply with a constant flow or sprinkling of some liquid, for the purpose of cooling, cleansing, or disinfecting | - |
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| (verb) supply with water, as with channels or ditches or streams | Synonyms: water |
| irrigation | (noun) supplying dry land with water by means of ditches etc | - |
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| (noun) (medicine) cleaning a wound or body organ by flushing or washing out with water or a medicated solution | - |
| irritability | (noun) a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger | Synonyms: biliousness, peevishness, pettishness, snappishness, surliness, temper |
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| (noun) excessive sensitivity of an organ or body part | Synonyms: excitability |
| (noun) an irritable petulant feeling | Synonyms: choler, crossness, fretfulness, fussiness, peevishness, petulance |
| irritable | (adjective) easily irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: cranky, fractious, nettlesome, peckish, peevish, pettish, petulant, scratchy, techy, testy, tetchy |
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| (adjective) capable of responding to stimuli | Synonyms: excitable |
| (adjective) abnormally sensitive to a stimulus | - |
| irritably | (adverb) in an irritable manner | - |
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| (adverb) in a petulant manner | Synonyms: pettishly, petulantly, testily |
| irritant | (noun) something that causes irritation and annoyance | Synonyms: thorn |
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| irritate | (verb) excite to an abnormal condition, or chafe or inflame | - |
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| (verb) excite to some characteristic action or condition, such as motion, contraction, or nervous impulse, by the application of a stimulus | - |
| (verb) cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations | Synonyms: annoy, bother, chafe, devil, get at, get to, gravel, nark, nettle, rag, rile, vex |
| irritated | (adjective) aroused to impatience or anger | Synonyms: annoyed, miffed, nettled, peeved, pissed, pissed off, riled, roiled, steamed, stung |
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| irritating | (adjective) causing irritation or annoyance | Synonyms: annoying, bothersome, galling, nettlesome, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, plaguey, plaguy, teasing, vexatious, vexing |
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| (adjective) (used of physical stimuli) serving to stimulate or excite | Synonyms: irritative |
| (adjective) causing physical discomfort | Synonyms: painful |
| irritatingly | (adverb) in an irritating manner | - |
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| irritation | (noun) unfriendly behavior that causes anger or resentment | Synonyms: aggravation, provocation |
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| (noun) the act of troubling or annoying someone | Synonyms: annoyance, annoying, vexation |
| (noun) an uncomfortable feeling of mental painfulness or distress | Synonyms: discomfort, soreness |
| (noun) a sudden outburst of anger | Synonyms: pique, temper |
| (noun) the psychological state of being irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: annoyance, botheration, vexation |
| (noun) the neural or electrical arousal of an organ or muscle or gland | Synonyms: excitation, innervation |
| (noun) (pathology) abnormal sensitivity to stimulation | - |
| irritative | (adjective) (used of physical stimuli) serving to stimulate or excite | Synonyms: irritating |
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| irrupt | (verb) increase rapidly and in an uncontrolled manner | Synonyms: explode |
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| (verb) erupt or intensify suddenly | Synonyms: break open, burst out, erupt, flare, flare up |
| (verb) enter uninvited | Synonyms: intrude |
| irruption | (noun) a sudden violent entrance; a bursting in | - |
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| (noun) a sudden violent spontaneous occurrence (usually of some undesirable condition) | Synonyms: eruption, outbreak |
| (noun) a sudden sharp increase in the relative numbers of a population | - |
| irruptive | (adjective) of igneous rock that has solidified beneath the earth's surface; granite or diorite or gabbro | Synonyms: plutonic |
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