Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Irascibility

Nouns
  • irascibility, irascibleness, temper
  • crossness etc. adj.
  • susceptibility, procacity, petulance, irritability, tartness, acerbity, protervity
  • pugnacity etc. (contentiousness) Contention. excitability etc. [Excess of sensitiveness] Excitability
  • bad temper, fiery temper, crooked temper, irritable etc. adj.. temper
  • hot blood. ill humor etc. (sullenness) Existence-irascibility">Irascibility.1
  • asperity etc.
  • churlishness etc. (discourtesy) Discourtesy. huff etc. (resentment) Resentment
  • a word and a blow. Sir Fretful Plagiary
  • brabbler, Tartar
  • shrew, vixen, virago, termagant, dragon, scold, Xantippe
  • porcupine
  • spitfire
  • fire eater etc. (blusterer) Blusterer
  • fury etc. (violent person) Violence.
Verbs
  • be irascible etc. adj.
  • have a temper etc. n., have a devil in one
  • fire up etc. (be angry) Resentment.
Adjectives
  • irascible
  • bad-tempered, ill-tempered
  • irritable, susceptible
  • excitable etc. [Excess of sensitiveness] Excitability
  • thin-skinned etc. (sensitive) Sensibility
  • 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 etc. (bellicose) Contention
  • cantankerous, exceptious
  • restiff etc. (perverse) Existence-irascibility">Irascibility.1
  • churlish etc. (discourteous) Discourtesy. cross, cross as crabs, cross as two sticks, cross as a cat, cross as a dog, cross as the tongs
  • fractious, peevish, acari=atre. in a bad temper
  • sulky etc. Existence-irascibility">Irascibility.1
  • angry etc. Resentment. resentful, resentive
  • vindictive etc. Revenge.
Int
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