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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | easily upset |
| Synonyms: | cranky, excitable, hotheaded, peppery, testy |
| Antonyms: | easy-going, even-tempered |
| Main Entry: | cranky |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | in bad mood |
| Synonyms: | bad-humored, bearish, cantankerous, choleric, crabby, cross, crotchety, cussed, disagreeable, got up on wrong side of bed, grouchy, grumpy, hot-tempered, ill-humored, irascible, irritable, like a bear, mean, ornery*, out of sorts, perverse, quick-tempered, ratty, snappish, tetchy, ugly, vinegary |
| Antonyms: | amiable, cheerful, happy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | excitable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | easily upset or inspired |
| Synonyms: | agitable, alarmable, demonstrative, edgy, emotional, enthusiastic, fidgety, fierce, fiery, galvanic, hasty, high-strung, hot-headed, hot-tempered, hysterical, impatient, impetuous, impulsive, inflammable, intolerant, irascible, mercurial, moody, nervous, neurotic, overzealous, passionate, peevish, quick, quick-tempered, rash, reckless, restless, sensitive, short fused, skittish, susceptible, temperamental, testy, touchy, uncontrolled, uneasy, vehement, violent, volatile, volcanic |
| Antonyms: | calm, easy, easy-going, insensitive, laid-back, passive, unexcitable, uninspired |
| Main Entry: | fiery |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | passionate; on fire |
| Synonyms: | ablaze, afire, aflame, agitable, alight, blazing, burning, choleric, combustible, conflagrant, enthusiastic, excitable, febrile, fervid, fevered, feverish, fierce, flaming, flaring, flickering, flushed, glowing, heated, hot, hot-blooded, hot-headed, hot-tempered, igneous, ignited, impassioned, impetuous, impulsive, in flames, inflamed, intense, irascible, irritable, madcap, peppery, perfervid, precipitate, red-hot, spirited, unrestrained, vehement, violent |
| Antonyms: | cold, cool, dull, flat, impassive, subdued |
| Main Entry: | hotheaded |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | quick-tempered |
| Synonyms: | easily provoked, excitable, explosive, hot-tempered, impetuous, passionate, rash, short-fused, touchy, volatile |
| Main Entry: | ill-natured |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bad-tempered |
| Synonyms: | catty, churlish, crabbed, crabby, cross, crotchety, cussed, dirty*, disagreeable, disobliging, dyspeptic, hot-tempered, ill-humored, irritable, malevolent, malicious, mean, nasty, ornery*, perverse, petulant, spiteful, sulky, sullen, surly, temperamental, tempersome, touchy, unfriendly, unkind, unpleasant |
| Antonyms: | friendly, good-natured, good-tempered, nice, pleasant |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | impatient |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unable, unwilling to wait |
| Synonyms: | abrupt, agog, antsy, anxious, appetent, ardent, athirst, avid, breathless, brusque, chafing, choleric, curt, demanding, dying to, eager, edgy, feverish, fretful, hasty, having short fuse, headlong, hot under collar, hot-tempered, impetuous, indignant, intolerant, irascible, irritable, itchy, keen, on pins and needles, quick-tempered, racing one's motor, restless, ripe*, snappy, straining, sudden, testy, thirsty, unforbearing, unindulgent, vehement, violent |
| Antonyms: | controlled, easy-going, enduring, forbearing, laid-back, patient, tolerant, waiting, willing |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | irascible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crabby |
| Synonyms: | angry, bearish, bristly, cantankerous, choleric, crabbed, cranky, cross, feisty, fractious, grouchy, hasty, hot-tempered, huffy, ireful, irritable, ogre, passionate, peevish, petulant, querulous, quick-tempered, short-tempered, snappish, surly, testy, thin-skinned, touchy, uptight |
| Notes: | irate means 'angry' while irascible means 'disposed toward or easily provoked to anger' (both are from Latin ira 'anger') |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, happy |
| Main Entry: | peppery |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | irritable; sarcastic |
| Synonyms: | acute, angry, astringent, biting, caustic, choleric, cranky, cross, fiery, hot-tempered, incisive, irascible, keen, lively, passionate, quick-tempered, sharp, sharp-tempered, snappish, spirited, spunky, stinging, testy, touchy, trenchant, waspish |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, happy |
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