Irascible \I*ras"ci*ble\, a. [L. irascibilis, fr. irasci to be
angry, ira anger: cf. F. irascible. See Ire.]
Prone to anger; easily provoked or inflamed to anger;
choleric; irritable; as, an irascible man; an irascible
temper or mood. --
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
irascible
adj 1: quickly aroused to anger; "a hotheaded commander" [syn: choleric,
hotheaded, hot-tempered, quick-tempered, short,
short-tempered]
2: characterized by anger; "a choleric outburst"; "an irascible
response" [syn: choleric]
WordNet (r) 2.0
56 Moby Thesaurus words for "irascible":
agitable, bearish, bitchy, cankered, cantankerous, churlish,
contrary, crabbed, cranky, cross, cross-grained, crusty, cussed,
difficult, disagreeable, edgy, emotional, emotionally unstable,
eruptive, excitable, explosive, feisty, fractious, froward,
high-mettled, high-spirited, high-strung, highly emotional,
huffish, huffy, inflammable, irritable, mean, mettlesome, nervous,
ornery, perturbable, perverse, prickly, sensitive, skittish,
snappish, spiteful, spleeny, splenetic, startlish, stuffy, sulky,
sullen, testy, touchy, ugly, volcanic, waspish, wayward,
wrongheaded
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
choleric, hot-tempered, hotheaded, quick-tempered, short, short-tempered
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