quicktempered

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• choleric — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. irritable, quick tempered, peevish, irascible; see irritable . See Synonym Study at irritable . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. quick tempered, irritable, angry, hotheaded, irascible, touchy, grouchy, *short fused,… …   English dictionary for students

• irascible — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. peevish, cranky, irritable; see angry , irritable . See Synonym Study at irritable . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) (VOCABULARY WORD) a. [i RAS uh bul] quick tempered or easily angered. Mike was irascible; we walked on… …   English dictionary for students

• peppery — I (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Seasoned] Syn. hot, piquant, pungent; see spicy 1 . 2. [Incisive; said of speech ] Syn. acute, keen, sharp; see sarcastic . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective 1. Easily annoyed: choleric, irascible, quicktempered, testy …   English dictionary for students

• angry — adj 1. wrathful, wroth, irate, ireful, incensed, horn mad; enraged, raging, fuming, smoking, infuriated, Rare. infuriate, furious; livid, Inf. mad as a hornet, Inf. mad as hops, Inf. mad as a wet hen; inflamed, flaming, flaring, flared up, heated …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

• splenetic — adj 1. irritable, peevish, petulant, choleric, splenetical; cantankerous, irascible, iracund, surly, crabbed, crabby; unfriendly, ill natured, brusque, peppery, crusty, grumpy, grouchy, dyspeptic, bearish, snappish, snarling; cross, feisty, huffy …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

• touchy — [adj] easily offended bad tempered, bundle of nerves*, cantankerous, captious, choleric, crabbed, cranky, cross, delicate, dicey*, grouchy, grumpy, hazardous, hypersensitive, irascible, irritable, jumpy*, mean, ornery*, oversensitive, peevish,… …   New thesaurus