hot-tempered

Speech parts

1. hot-tempered - Adjective

2. hot-tempered - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

quickly aroused to anger

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

irascible choleric hotheaded blazing huffy emotional explosive angry volatile furious fiery infuriated impatient combustible irritable
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Antonyms

even cool pacifist dovish cool-headed even-tempered

Related terms

short-tempered quick-tempered

Examples

I was pretty hot-tempered all through school. I remember my high school basketball coach telling me: 'Boy, if you don't learn to control that temper, you're gonna kill somebody.' Tony Dorsett

A clay pot of water is never hot-tempered. Nigerian Proverb

a hotheaded commander Source: Internet

According to Zhukov, Stalin was a strong and secretive person, but he was also hot-tempered and skeptical. Source: Internet

Easily frustrated and hot-tempered, Adam is a great big ball of rage. Source: Internet

Assigned to dig up some dirt in the horse barns, he tangles with hot-tempered trainer Del Fiddler, who's jealous of his flirtatious and curvaceous wife — and handy with a horse whip. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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