Meaning of CHOLER
| Pronunciation: | | 'kâlur
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- [n] a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the liver and to cause irritability and anger
- [n] a strong emotion; a feeling that is oriented toward some real or supposed grievance
- [n] an irritable petulant feeling
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| | Synonyms: | | anger, crossness, fretfulness, fussiness, ire, irritability, peevishness, petulance, yellow bile |
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| | See Also: | | annoyance, bad temper, bodily fluid, body fluid, chafe, dander, emotion, enragement, fury, hackles, huffiness, humor, humour, ill humor, ill humour, ill temper, indignation, infuriation, liquid body substance, madness, offence, offense, outrage, pet, rage, testiness, tetchiness, touchiness, umbrage, vexation | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Chol"er\, n. [OE. coler, F. col[`e]re anger, L. cholera
a bilious complaint, fr. Gr. ? cholera, fr. ?, ?, bile. See
{Gall}, and cf. {Cholera}.]
1. The bile; -- formerly supposed to be the seat and cause of
irascibility. [Obs.]
His [Richard Hooker's] complexion . . . was
sanguine, with a mixture of choler; and yet his
motion was slow. --I. Warton.
2. Irritation of the passions; anger; wrath.
He is rash and very sudden in choler. --Shak.
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| | Related Terms: | | acerbity, acid, acidity, acidulousness, acrimony, anger, animosity, asperity, bad humor, bad temper, bile, biliousness, bitter resentment, bitterness, bitterness of spirit, causticity, corrosiveness, discontent, gall, gnashing of teeth, hard feelings, heartburning, ill humor, ill nature, ill temper, rancor, rankling, slow burn, soreness, sourness, spleen, virulence |
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