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nervousness
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | anxious state |
| Synonyms: | agitation, all-overs, anger, animation, butterflies, cold sweat, creeps, delirium, discomfiture, disquiet, disquietude, dithers, excitability, feverishness, fidgets, flap, fluster*, fuss*, impatience, jitters, jumps, moodiness, neurasthenia, neuroticism, perturbation, quivers, sensitivity, shakes, stage fright, stimulation, stress, tension, timidity, tizzy, to-do, touchiness, trembles, tremulousness, turbulence, uneasiness, willies, worry |
| Antonyms: | calm, calmness, collectedness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | testiness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | irritability |
| Synonyms: | annoyance, asperity, fretfulness, peevishness, petulance, touchiness |
| Main Entry: | irascibility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | temper |
| Synonyms: | acerbity, anger, annoyance, bad humor, cantankerousness, crossness, dander, excitability, fit, fretfulness, furor, fury, grouchiness, heat*, hotheadedness, huffiness, ill-humor, impatience, irascibleness, ire, irritability, irritation, low boiling point, miff, outburst, passion, peevishness, petulance, pugnacity, rage, resentment, sensitivity, short fuse, slow burn, snit, sourness, spleen, stew, sullenness, surliness, tantrum, tartness, tear*, temperament, tetchiness, tiff, tizzy, touchiness, wax |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | irascibleness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | temper |
| Synonyms: | acerbity, anger, annoyance, bad humor, cantankerousness, crossness, dander, excitability, fit, fretfulness, furor, fury, grouchiness, heat*, hotheadedness, huffiness, ill-humor, impatience, irascibility, ire, irritability, irritation, low boiling point, miff, outburst, passion, peevishness, petulance, pugnacity, rage, resentment, sensitivity, short fuse, slow burn, snit, sourness, spleen, stew, sullenness, surliness, tantrum, tartness, tear*, temperament, tetchiness, tiff, tizzy, touchiness, wax |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | jitters |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nervous restlessness |
| Synonyms: | agitation, all-overs, anger, animation, butterflies, cold sweat, creeps, delirium, discomfiture, disquiet, disquietude, dithers, excitability, feverishness, fidget, fidgets, flap, fluster*, fuss*, impatience, jump, jumps, moodiness, neurasthenia, neuroticism, perturbation, quivers, sensitivity, shakes, shiver, stage fright, stimulation, stress, tension, timidity, tizzy, to-do, touchiness, tremble, trembles, tremulousness, turbulence, uneasiness, willies, worry |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | short fuse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | temper |
| Synonyms: | acerbity, anger, annoyance, bad humor, cantankerousness, crossness, dander, excitability, fit, fretfulness, furor, fury, grouchiness, heat*, hotheadedness, huffiness, ill-humor, impatience, irascibility, irascibleness, ire, irritability, irritation, low boiling point, miff, outburst, passion, peevishness, petulance, pugnacity, rage, resentment, sensitivity, slow burn, snit, sourness, spleen, stew, sullenness, surliness, tantrum, tartness, tear*, temperament, tetchiness, tiff, tizzy, touchiness, wax |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | tetchiness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | temper |
| Synonyms: | acerbity, anger, annoyance, bad humor, cantankerousness, crossness, dander, excitability, fit, fretfulness, furor, fury, grouchiness, heat*, hotheadedness, huffiness, ill-humor, impatience, irascibility, irascibleness, ire, irritability, irritation, low boiling point, miff, outburst, passion, peevishness, petulance, pugnacity, rage, resentment, sensitivity, short fuse, slow burn, snit, sourness, spleen, stew, sullenness, surliness, tantrum, tartness, tear*, temperament, tiff, tizzy, touchiness, wax |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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| Concept: | Irascibility. |
| Category: | 1. Social Affections |
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-nouns
irascibility, irascibleness, temper; crossness; susceptibility, procacity, petulance, irritability, tartness, acerbity, protervity; pugnacity (contentiousness)., excitability; bad temper, fiery temper, crooked temper, irritable temper; genus irritabile, hot blood., ill humor (sullenness); asperity, churlishness (discourtesy)., huff (resentment); a word and a blow., Sir Fretful Plagiary; brabbler, Tartar; shrew, vixen, virago, termagant, dragon, scold, Xantippe; porcupine; spitfire; fire eater (blusterer); fury (violent person).
-verbs
be irascible; have a temper, have a devil in one; fire up (be angry).
-adjectives
irascible; bad-tempered, ill-tempered; irritable, susceptible; excitable; thin-skinned (sensitive) [more]; fretful, fidgety; on the fret., hasty, overhasty, quick, warm, hot, testy, touchy, techy, tetchy; like touchwood, like tinder; huffy; pettish, petulant; waspish, snappish, peppery, fiery, passionate, choleric, shrewish, "sudden and quick in quarrel" [As You Like It]., querulous, captious, moodish; quarrelsome, contentious, disputatious; pugnacious (bellicose); cantankerous, exceptious; restiff (perverse); churlish (discourteous)., cross, cross as crabs, cross as two sticks, cross as a cat, cross as a dog, cross as the tongs; fractious, peevish, in a bad temper; sulky; angry. resentful, resentive; vindictive.
-phrases
a vieux comptes nouvelles disputes; quamvis tegatur proditur vultu furor [Seneca]; vino tortus et ira [Horace].
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