irascible

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Adjective
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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective irascible has 2 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

irasciblea. [L. irascibilis, fr. irasci to be angry, ira anger: cf. F. irascible. See Ire.].
     Prone to anger; easily provoked or inflamed to anger; choleric; irritable; as, an irascible man; an irascible temper or mood.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

irascible, adj. irritable; hot-tempered.

Derivative
irascibility n. irascibly adv.
Etymology
ME f. F f. LL irascibilis f. L irasci grow angry f. ira anger

THESAURUS

irascible

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

ROGET THESAURUS

irascible

Irascibility

N irascibility, irascibleness, temper, crossness, susceptibility, procacity, petulance, irritability, tartness, acerbity, protervity, pugnacity, excitability, bad temper, fiery temper, crooked temper, irritable, temper, genus irritabile, hot blood, ill humor, asperity, churlishness, huff, a word and a blow, Sir Fretful Plagiary, brabbler, Tartar, shrew, vixen, virago, termagant, dragon, scold, Xantippe, porcupine, spitfire, fire eater, fury, irascible, bad-tempered, ill-tempered, irritable, susceptible, excitable, thin-skinned, fretful, fidgety, on the fret, hasty, overhasty, quick, warm, hot, testy, touchy, techy, tetchy, like touchwood, like tinder, huffy, pettish, petulant, waspish, snappish, peppery, fiery, passionate, choleric, shrewish, sudden and quick in quarrel, querulous, captious, moodish, quarrelsome, contentious, disputatious, pugnacious, cantankerous, exceptious, restiff, churlish, cross, cross as crabs, cross as two sticks, cross as a cat, cross as a dog, cross as the tongs, fractious, peevish, acari=atre, in a bad temper, sulky, angry, resentful, resentive, vindictive, Int, pish!, a vieux comptes nouvelles disputes, quamvis tegatur proditur vultu furor, vino tortus et ira.


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