Irascible
[ɪ'ræsɪb(ə)l] or [ɪ'ræsəbl]
Definition
(a.) Prone to anger; easily provoked or inflamed to anger; choleric; irritable; as, an irascible man; an irascible temper or mood.
Edited by Lester
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Passionate, hasty, hot, irritable, touchy, testy, waspish, quick, snappish, splenetic, petulant, choleric, peppery, like tinder, like touchwood.
Editor: Mary
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See HASTY_and_ANGRY]
Edited by Guthrie
Definition
adj. susceptible of ire or anger: easily provoked: irritable.—n. Irascibil′ity.—adv. Iras′cibly.
Typist: Oliver
Examples
- That hiss, faint as it was, irritated the irascible gentleman, and sealed the culprit's fate. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- But he was possessed of an irascible temper, and was naturally disputatious. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I am irascible. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The irascible Mr. Smallweed scratches the air. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
Typist: Oliver