Meaning of IRASCIBLE
| Pronunciation: | | I'rasubul
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- [adj] characterized by anger; "a choleric outburst"; "an irascible response"
- [adj] quickly aroused to anger; "a hotheaded commander"
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| | Synonyms: | | angry, choleric, hotheaded, hot-tempered, ill-natured, quick-tempered, short, short-tempered |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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.
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| | Related Terms: | | 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, highly emotional, high-mettled, high-spirited, high-strung, 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 |
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