Choleric \Chol"er*ic\, a. [L. cholericus, Gr. ?: cf. F.
chol['e]rique.]
1. Abounding with, or producing choler, or bile. --Dryden.
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2. Easily irritated; irascible; inclined to anger.
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3. Angry; indicating anger; excited by anger. "Choleric
speech." --Sir W. Raleigh.
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Choleric temperament, the bilious temperament.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
choleric
adj 1: easily moved to anger; "men of the choleric type take to
kicking and smashing"- H.G.Wells
2: quickly aroused to anger; "a hotheaded commander" [syn: irascible,
hotheaded, hot-tempered, quick-tempered, short, short-tempered]
3: characterized by anger; "a choleric outburst"; "an irascible
response" [syn: irascible]
WordNet (r) 2.0
64 Moby Thesaurus words for "choleric":
acerb, acerbate, acerbic, acid, acidic, acidulent, acidulous,
acrimonious, ambivert, angry, bilious, bitter, burning, captious,
carping, caustic, cranky, cycloid, cyclothyme, cyclothymic,
dyspeptic, ectomorph, embittered, endomorph, extrovert,
faultfinding, fiery, heated, hot-tempered, indignant, introvert,
irate, ireful, jaundiced, mad, melancholic, mesomorph, phlegmatic,
quick-tempered, rancorous, rankled, ratty, resentful, resenting,
sanguine, schizoid, schizothyme, sore, sour, sour-tempered, soured,
splenetic, spunky, stewing, syntone, testy, tetchy, touchy,
vinegarish, virulent, waxy, wrathful, wrathy, wroth
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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