quick-tempered

adjective

quickly aroused to anger

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a hotheaded commander

• Syn: ↑choleric, ↑irascible, ↑hotheaded, ↑hot-tempered, ↑short-tempered

• Similar to: ↑ill-natured

• Derivationally related forms: ↑irascibility (for: ↑irascible), ↑choler (for: ↑choleric)

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adj

fiery, impatient, impulsive, hot-tempered, irascible, testy, touchy, irritable, explosive, volcanic, waspish, choleric, excitable, quarrelsome, shrewish, snappy, temperamental, splenetic, petulant

≠ cool, dispassionate

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[adjective]

hot-tempered, choleric, fiery, irascible, irritable, quarrelsome, ratty (Brit. & N.Z. informal), testy, tetchy

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▶ adjective IRRITABLE, irascible, hot-tempered, short-tempered, snappish, fiery, touchy, volatile; cross, crabby, crotchety, cantankerous, grumpy, ill-tempered, bad-tempered, testy, tetchy, prickly, choleric; informal snappy, chippy, grouchy, cranky, on a short fuse; Brit. informal narky, ratty, eggy, like a bear with a sore head; N. Amer. informal soreheaded.

Opposites

placid.

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\(ˈ) ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷\ adjective

: easily aroused to anger : irascible

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/kwik"tem"peuhrd/, adj.

easily angered.

[1820-30]

Syn. quarrelsome, testy, churlish, irascible.

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quick-temˈpered adjective

Irascible

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Main Entry: ↑quick

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quick-tempered UK [ˌkwɪk ˈtempə(r)d] US [ˌkwɪk ˈtempərd] adjective

someone who is quick-tempered becomes angry very easily

Thesaurus: words used to describe someone who is easily annoyed or difficult to please_synonym

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ˌquick-ˈtempered [quick-tempered] adjective

likely to become angry very quickly

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a quick-tempered woman