Dictionary Definition
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]
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English
Adjective
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Translations
prone to anger
- Danish: opfarende
- Dutch: opvliegend, humeurig, prikkelbaar
- Finnish: äkeä, ärsyyntyvä, vihastuva
- French: irascible
- German: aufbrausend
- Greek: ευέξαπτος, ευερέθιστος
- Italian: irascibile
- Polish: drażliwy, wybuchowy, gniewny
- Spanish: irascible
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Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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