| 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 |
| Concept: | Irascibility. |
| Category: | 1. Social Affections |
Synonyms: |
-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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| Main Entry: | acrimony |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nasty behavior, speech |
Synonyms: |
acerbity, animosity, antipathy, asperity, astringency, belligerence, bitterness, churlishness, crankiness, harshness, ill will, irascibility, malevolence, malice, mordancy, peevishness, rancor, rudeness, sarcasm, spite, tartness, unkindness, virulence |
Antonyms: |
civility, courtesy, diplomacy, flattery, kindness, politeness, sweetness |
| Main Entry: | anger |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | state of being mad, annoyed |
Synonyms: |
acrimony, animosity, annoyance, antagonism, blow up, cat fit, chagrin, choler, conniption, dander, disapprobation, displeasure, distemper, enmity, exasperation, fury, gall, hatred, hissy fit, huff, ill humor, ill temper, impatience, indignation, infuriation, irascibility, ire, irritability, irritation, mad, miff, outrage, passion, peevishness, petulance, pique, rage, rankling, resentment, slow burn, soreness, stew, storm, tantrum, temper, tiff, umbrage, vexation, violence |
Antonyms: |
agreeability, calmness, contentment, enjoyment, good nature, happiness, joy, peace, pleasantness |
| Main Entry: | asperity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | harshness; bad temper |
Synonyms: |
acerbity, acrimony, bitterness, churlishness, crabbiness, crossness, difficulty, disagreeableness, irascibility, irritability, meanness, moroseness, peevishness, roughness, sharpness, sourness, sullenness, tartness |
Antonyms: |
calmness, happiness, kindness, mildness |
| Main Entry: | temper |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | angriness; bad mood |
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, miff, outburst, passion, peevishness, petulance, pugnacity, rage, resentment, sensitivity, short fuse, slow burn, snit, sourness, stew, sullenness, surliness, tantrum, tartness, tear*, tiff, tizzy, touchiness, wax |
Antonyms: |
happiness |
| Main Entry: | annoyance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | feeling of being irritated |
Synonyms: |
anger, discontent, displeasure, distress, exasperation, frustration, indignation, irascibility, irritation, pique, unhappiness, vexation |
Antonyms: |
delight, enjoyment, happiness, joy, pleasure |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | irateness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | anger |
Synonyms: |
acrimony, animosity, annoyance, antagonism, blow up, cat fit, chagrin, choler, conniption, dander, disapprobation, displeasure, distemper, enmity, exasperation, fury, gall, hatred, hissy fit, huff, ill humor, ill temper, impatience, indignation, infuriation, irascibility, ire, irritability, irritation, mad, miff, outrage, passion, peevishness, petulance, pique, rage, rankling, resentment, slow burn, soreness, stew, storm, tantrum, temper, tiff, umbrage, vexation, violence |
| Main Entry: | pestering |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | annoyance |
Synonyms: |
anger, botheration, bothering, discontent, displeasure, distress, exasperation, frustration, harassment, indignation, irascibility, irritation, pique, provocation, unhappiness, vexation |
