Choleric

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Choleric \Chol"er*ic\, a. [L. cholericus, Gr. ?: cf. F.
     chol['e]rique.]
     1. Abounding with, or producing choler, or bile. --Dryden.
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     2. Easily irritated; irascible; inclined to anger.


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     3. Angry; indicating anger; excited by anger. "Choleric
        speech." --Sir W. Raleigh.
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     {Choleric temperament}, the bilious temperament.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  choleric
       adj 1: easily moved to anger; "men of the choleric type take to
              kicking and smashing"- H.G.Wells
       2: quickly aroused to anger; "a hotheaded commander" [syn: {irascible},
           {hotheaded}, {hot-tempered}, {quick-tempered}, {short}, {short-tempered}]
       3: characterized by anger; "a choleric outburst"; "an irascible
          response" [syn: {irascible}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  64 Moby Thesaurus words for "choleric":
     acerb, acerbate, acerbic, acid, acidic, acidulent, acidulous,
     acrimonious, ambivert, angry, bilious, bitter, burning, captious,
     carping, caustic, cranky, cycloid, cyclothyme, cyclothymic,
     dyspeptic, ectomorph, embittered, endomorph, extrovert,
     faultfinding, fiery, heated, hot-tempered, indignant, introvert,
     irate, ireful, jaundiced, mad, melancholic, mesomorph, phlegmatic,
     quick-tempered, rancorous, rankled, ratty, resentful, resenting,
     sanguine, schizoid, schizothyme, sore, sour, sour-tempered, soured,
     splenetic, spunky, stewing, syntone, testy, tetchy, touchy,
     vinegarish, virulent, waxy, wrathful, wrathy, wroth