Irascible

3 definitions found

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

  Irascible \I*ras"ci*ble\, a. [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. -- {I*ras"ci*ble*ness}, n. -- {I*ras"ci*bly},
     adv.


     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

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

  56 Moby Thesaurus words for "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