irascible
Meanings
Adjective Satellite
- quickly aroused to anger
- characterized by anger
- "an irascible response"
Adj
- Easily provoked to outbursts of anger; irritable.
- Relating to the irascible passions
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English, from Old French irascible, from Late Latin īrāscibilis, from Latin īrāscī (“to be angry, enraged”) + -bilis.
Synonyms
atrabilious, bad-tempered, bilious, bitchy, brainish, cantankerous, carnaptious, choleric, crabbit, crabby, cranky, crotchety, dyspeptic, edgy, fantoddish, fiery, fractious, fretful, grotchy, grouchy, grumpy, hissy, hot-livered, hot-tempered, hotheaded, huffy, humpy, ill-natured, ill-tempered, irascible, irritable, ornery (chiefly US)}, out of sorts, peevish, pettish, petulant, prickly, querulous, quick-tempered, raspy, ratty, short-tempered, snappish, snappy, snippety, snippish, snippy, snitchy, splenetic, stressy, surly, testy, tetchy, tetty, thin-skinned, thorny, touchy, twitchy, umbrageous, waspish
Scrabble Score: 13
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