Choleric

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Easily angered; bad-tempered.
  • adj. Showing or expressing anger.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Easily becoming angry.
  • adj. Showing or expressing anger.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Abounding with, or producing choler, or bile.
  • adj. Easily irritated; irascible; inclined to anger.
  • adj. Angry; indicating anger; excited by anger.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • A bounding with choler or bile; bilious.
  • Easily irritated; irascible; inclined to anger; angry: as, a choleric temper.
  • Indicating or expressing anger; prompted by anger; angry: as, a choleric speech.
  • Synonyms Testy, touchy, peppery, irritable.
  • n. A person of a bilious or choleric temperament.
  • n. A person suffering from cholera.
  • Same as choleraic. Syd. Soc. Lex.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. quickly aroused to anger
  • adj. characterized by anger
  • adj. easily moved to anger
  • Equivalent
    ill-natured    angry    passionate   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    irascible    angry    wrathful    irate    indignant    vexed   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    irascible    irritable    excitable    moody    testy    touchy    quarrelsome    splenetic    combative    captious