irascible

Speech parts

1. irascible - Adjective

2. irascible - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Prone to anger; easily provoked or inflamed to anger; choleric; irritable; as, an irascible man; an irascible temper or mood.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

choleric hot-tempered cranky cantankerous ill-tempered hotheaded short-tempered quick-tempered moody crabby huffy hot cross hostile explosive
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Antonyms

cool as cucumber placid composed controlled collected patient
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Related terms

ire irate

Phrases with the word

huffy irascible

Examples

a choleric outburst Source: Internet

an irascible response Source: Internet

a hotheaded commander Source: Internet

As a man he was upright, vigorous and energetic, if somewhat irascible. Source: Internet

By contrast, arias in opera buffa (comic opera) were often specific in character to the nature of the character being portrayed (for example the cheeky servant-girl or the irascible elderly suitor or guardian). Source: Internet

It was Jerry Pournelle with an idea for a funny, frank (and sometimes irascible) series of articles to be presented in BYTE on a semi-regular (i. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

irarsite IRAS irascibility irascibleness irascibly iraser