Vocabulary
Irritant
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
a thing that is continually annoying or distracting.
Urdu meaning
پریشان کن، اشتعال انگیز، مصیبت
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- Of course, the elephant in the room is US sanctions; unless both sides address this irritant, it will be difficult to achieve the economic goals both Pakistan and Iran desire.
- Another irritant is said to have surfaced during India`s aggression against Pakistan in May this year.
- The major irritant in US-India ties is the latter country`s membership of BRICS where Russia and China have joined hands with Brazil, India, South Africa and a host of smaller countries to create a trading bloc.
- (Theonly irritant was Iran`s uranium enrichment levels, which was being thrashed out, with talks on the verge of a breakthrough when Israel struck.
- Iran was seen as the only obstacle, or let`s say, irritant, with its now more or less defunct Axis of Resistance, and needed to be brushed out of the way.
Synonyms
annoyance, irritation, source of irritation, source of vexation, source of annoyance,
Curator example
“in 1966 Vietnam was becoming an irritant to the government”
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