adjective. Prone to outbursts of temper; easily angered.

adjective. Characterized by or resulting from anger.

Susceptible of anger; easily provoked or inflamed with resentment; choleric: as, an irascible man; an irascible temper.

Excited by or arising from anger; manifesting a state of anger or resentment.

Synonyms Irascible, Irritable, Passionate, hasty, touchy, testy, splenetic, snappish, peppery, fiery, choleric. Irascible indicates quicker and more intense bursts of anger than irritable, and less powerful, lasting, or manifest bursts than passionate.

adjective. Prone to anger; easily provoked or inflamed to anger; choleric; irritable

adjective. Easily provoked to outbursts of anger; irritable.

adjective. quickly aroused to anger

adjective. characterized by anger

"_ Not Neoptolemus so mirable] [W: Neoptolemus's sire irascible] After all this contention it is difficult to imagine that the critic believes _mirable_ to have been changed to _irascible_."

calm  patient  peaceful  

angry  ill-natured  

irascibility  irascibleness  irascibly  

capricious  captious  choleric  combative  excitable  

agitable  bearish  bilious  bitchy  brainish