shorttempered

Main Entry:
short-tempered [shawrt-tem-perd]
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: touchy
Synonyms: cantankerous, choleric, crabby, gruff, harsh, irascible, irritable, snappish, testy
Main Entry: short-tempered
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: quick to anger
Synonyms: cantankerous, crabby, cranky, crotchety, fiery, grouchy, hot-blooded, hot-tempered, ill-tempered, impatient, irascible, irritable, peckish, quick-tempered, short-fused, snappish, snappy, temperamental, testy, touchy, volatile, volatile
Antonyms: calm, easy-going, placid
Main Entry: crusty
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: irritable, often due to old age
Synonyms: abrupt, bluff, blunt, brief, brusque, cantankerous, captious, choleric, crabbed, crabby, cranky, cross, curt, dour, gruff, harsh, ill-humored, irascible, peevish, prickly, sarcastic, saturnine, scornful, short, short-tempered, snappish, snarling, snippety, snippy, splenetic, surly, testy, touchy, vinegary
Antonyms: cheerful, happy, nice, pleasant
Main Entry: fretful
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: irritable
Synonyms: captious, carping, caviling, complaining, contrary, crabby, cranky*, critical, cross, crotchety, edgy, faultfinding, fractious, huffy, mean, ornery*, out of sorts, peevish, perverse, petulant, querulous, short-tempered, snappish, splenetic, testy, touchy, uneasy, worried, wreck*
Antonyms: calm, cheered, easy-going, happy, joyous, laid-back, pleased, relaxed
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: moody
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: crabby, temperamental
Synonyms: angry, cantankerous, capricious, changeable, crabbed, crestfallen, cross, dismal, doleful, dour, down in the dumps, down in the mouth, downcast, erratic, fickle, fitful, flighty, frowning, gloomy, glum, huffy, ill-humored, ill-tempered, impulsive, in a huff, in the doldrums, introspective, irascible, irritable, lugubrious, melancholy, mercurial, miserable, moping, morose, offended, out of sorts, pensive, petulant, piqued, sad, saturnine, short-tempered, splenetic, sulky, sullen, testy, touchy
Antonyms: balanced, cheerful, happy, overjoyed
Main Entry: peevish
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: irritable, testy
Synonyms: acrimonious, angry, bad-tempered, cantankerous, captious, carping, caviling, childish, churlish, complaining, crabbed, cranky, critical, cross, crotchety, crusty, cussed, fault-finding, fractious, fretful, fretting, grouchy, grousing, growling, grumpy, huffy, ill-natured, mean, morose, obstinate, ogre, ornery, out-of-sorts, pertinacious, petulant, querulous, short-tempered, snappy, splenetic, sulky, sullen, surly, tetchy, touchy, ugly, waspish, waspy, whining
Antonyms: accepting, friendly, happy, pleasant
Main Entry: quick-tempered
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: easily upset, angered
Synonyms: choleric, cranky, cross, excitable, fiery, hot-tempered, impatient, impulsive, inflammable, irascible, irritable, passionate, peppery, petulant, quarrelsome, ratty, sensitive, short-tempered, shrewish, splenetic, temperamental, testy, waspish
Antonyms: calm, cool, easy-going, even-tempered, laid-back
Main Entry: short
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: abrupt, discourteous
Synonyms: bad-tempered, blunt, breviloquent, brief, brusque, curt, direct, gruff, impolite, inconsiderate, irascible, offhand, rude, sharp, short-spoken, short-tempered, snappy, snippety, snippy, straight, terse, testy, thoughtless, unceremonious, uncivil, ungracious
Antonyms: courteous, kind, polite
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