irascibility
Roget category 901
6. Words relating to the sentient and moral› 6.3. Sympathetic affections
›› 6.3.1. Social affections
#901.
Irascibility
noun
irascibility,
irascibleness,
temper —
crossness
etc.
adj. —
susceptibility,
procacity,
petulance,
irritability,
tartness,
acerbity,
protervity —
pugnacity
etc.
(contentiousness)
720.
excitability
etc.
825 —
bad temper,
fiery temper,
crooked temper,
irritable
etc.
adj..
temper —
genus irritabile [Lat.],
hot blood.
ill humor
etc.
(sullenness)
901.1;
asperity
&c. —
churlishness
etc.
(discourtesy)
895.
huff
etc.
(resentment)
900 —
a word and a blow.
Sir Fretful Plagiary —
brabbler†,
Tartar —
shrew,
vixen,
virago,
termagant,
dragon,
scold,
Xantippe —
porcupine —
spitfire —
fire eater
etc.
(blusterer)
887 —
fury
etc.
(violent person)
173.
verb
be irascible
etc.
adj. —
have a temper
etc.
n.,
have a devil in one —
fire up
etc.
(be angry)
900.
adjective
irascible —
bad-tempered,
ill-tempered —
irritable,
susceptible —
excitable
etc.
825 —
thin-skinned
etc.
(sensitive)
822 —
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)
720 —
cantankerous,
exceptious† —
restiff
etc.
(perverse)
901.1† —
churlish
etc.
(discourteous)
895.
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.
901.1;
angry
etc.
900.
resentful,
resentive† —
vindictive
etc.
919.
interjection
pish!,
phrase
a vieux comptes nouvelles disputes [Fr.] —
quamvis tegatur proditur vultu furor [Lat.]
[Seneca];
vino tortus et ira [Lat.]
[Horace].
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