Nearby Words
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | angry most of the time; moody |
| Synonyms: | capricious, changeable, cussed, easily upset, emotional, erratic, excitable, explosive, fickle, fiery, froward, headstrong, high-strung, hotheaded, hyper, hypersensitive, impatient, in bad mood, inconsistent, irritable, mean, mercurial, neurotic, ornery, passionate, petulant, sensitive, thin-skinned, ticklish, touchy, uncertain, undependable, unpredictable, unreliable, unstable, variable, volatile, willful |
| Antonyms: | easygoing, happy, laid-back, peaceful, pleased |
| Main Entry: | contemptuous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | arrogant, insolent |
| Synonyms: | audacious, bold, cavalier, cheeky, cold-shoulder, condescending, contumelious, cool, derisive, derisory, disdainful, disrespectful, dog it, hard, hard-nosed, haughty, high and mighty, high hat, insulting, on high horse, opprobrious, sardonic, scornful, sneering, snippy, snobbish, snooty, snotty, supercilious, temperamental, uppity, upstage |
| Notes: | contemptible means deserving contempt, while contemptuous means bestowing contempt; the first sense of contemptuous was 'despising law and order' |
| Antonyms: | humble, polite, respected, shy |
| Main Entry: | emotional |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | demonstrative about feelings |
| Synonyms: | affecting, ardent, disturbed, ecstatic, emotive, enthusiastic, excitable, exciting, falling apart, fanatical, feeling, fervent, fervid, fickle, fiery, heartwarming, heated, histrionic, hot-blooded, hysterical, impassioned, impetuous, impulsive, irrational, moving, nervous, overwrought, passionate, pathetic, poignant, responsive, roused, sensitive, sentient, sentimental, spontaneous, stirred, stirring, susceptible, tear-jerking, temperamental, tender, thrilling, touching, warm, zealous |
| Notes: | emotional means 'affected by an emotion' while emotive means 'drawing out or evoking emotion' |
| Antonyms: | physical |
| 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: | fickle |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | vacillating, blowing hot and cold |
| Synonyms: | arbitrary, capricious, changeable, cheating, coquettish, double-crossing, faithless, fitful, flighty, frivolous, inconstant, irresolute, lubricious, mercurial, mutable, quicksilver, sneaking, temperamental, ticklish, two-timing, unfaithful, unpredictable, unstable, unsteady, untrue, variable, volatile, whimsical, yo-yo |
| Antonyms: | aware, cognizant, constant, faithful, reliable, stable, steady |
| Main Entry: | hot |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | passionate, vehement |
| Synonyms: | angry, animated, ardent, aroused, distracted, eager, enthusiastic, excited, fervent, fervid, fierce, fiery, furious, ill-tempered, impassioned, impetuous, indignant, inflamed, intense, irascible, lustful, raging, stormy, temperamental, touchy, violent |
| Antonyms: | calm, indifferent, unfeeling |
| 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: | inconsistent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | contradictory, irregular |
| Synonyms: | at odds, at variance, capricious, changeable, conflicting, contrary, discordant, discrepant, dissonant, erratic, fickle, illogical, in conflict, incoherent, incompatible, incongruent, incongruous, inconstant, irreconcilable, lubricious, mercurial, out of step, temperamental, uncertain, unpredictable, unstable, variable, warring |
| Antonyms: | consistent, consonant, regular, steady, unchanging |
| 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 |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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