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shorttempered
| Main Entry: | |
| 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 |
* = 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: | 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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