quick-tempered
11quick-tempered — adjective easily becoming angry: Our young men were quick tempered and likely to do rash things …
12quick-tempered — UK [ˌkwɪk ˈtempə(r)d] / US [ˌkwɪk ˈtempərd] adjective someone who is quick tempered becomes angry very easily …
13quick-tempered — quick′ tem′pered adj. easily angered; touchy • Etymology: 1820–30 …
14quick-tempered — Synonyms and related words: abrupt, bad tempered, choleric, churlish, excitable, hot blooded, hot tempered, ill tempered, impatient, impulsive, irascible, irritable, quarrelsome, short, short tempered, snappish, splenetic, temperamental, testy,… …
15quick-tempered — adj impatient, irritable, irascible; high strung, high mettled, temperamental, excitable, impulsive, volatile; hot blooded, hot tempered, fiery, like tinder, like touchwood; testy, touchy, petulant, snappish, peppery, waspish, shrewish; choleric …
16quick-tempered — adjective Date: 1830 easily angered ; irascible …
17quick-tempered — /kwik tem peuhrd/, adj. easily angered. [1820 30] Syn. quarrelsome, testy, churlish, irascible. * * * …
18quick-tempered — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. impetuous, hotheaded, irascible, hot, peppery. See irascibility. Ant., cool headed, slow to anger. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. temperamental, quarrelsome, irascible, excitable; see irritable . III… …
19quick tempered — becoming angry quickly, irascible, easy made angry …
20quick-tempered — adjective easily angered …