About The Word Irascible
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Irascible
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What's The Definition Of Irascible?
[adj] characterized by anger; "a choleric outburst"; "an irascible response"
[adj] quickly aroused to anger; "a hotheaded commander" Synonyms | Synonyms for Irascible: angry | choleric | hotheaded | hot-tempered | ill-natured | quick-tempered | short | short-tempered Related Terms | Find terms related to 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 | highly emotional | high-mettled | high-spirited | high-strung | 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 See Also | Irascible In Webster's Dictionary \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. -- {I*ras"ci*ble*ness}, n. -- {I*ras"ci*bly},
adv.
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