irascibility

irascibility
n
testiness, touchiness, thin-skinnedness, irritability, edginess, hastiness, short fuse; chol-er, pepperiness, spleen, gall, bile, ill temper, bad temper, ill nature, ill humor; tartness, acerbity, asperity, acrimony, bitterness, harshness; crankiness, grouchiness, crabbiness, crabbedness, gruffness, moodiness, crotchetiness; crossness, surliness, churlishness, snap-pishness, waspishness, petulance, peevishness, huffishness, huffiness, captiousness; cantankerousness, quer-ulousness, quarrelsomeness, contentiousness; anger, belligerence, pugnacity, volatileness, fieriness.

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  • Irascibility — I*ras ci*bil i*ty, n. [Cf. F. irascibilit[ e].] The quality or state of being irascible; irritability of temper; irascibleness. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • irascibility — index outburst Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • irascibility — (n.) 1750, from IRASCIBLE (Cf. irascible) + ITY (Cf. ity) …   Etymology dictionary

  • Irascibility — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Irascibility >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 irascibility irascibility irascibleness temper Sgm: N 1 crossness crossness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 susceptibility susceptibility procacity petulance irritability …   English dictionary for students

  • irascibility — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Tendency to become angry Nouns 1. irascibility, temper; crossness; petulance, irritability, pugnacity, contentiousness, excitability; bad, hot, fiery, or quick temper, hot blood; ill humor, surliness,… …   English dictionary for students

  • irascibility — irascible ► ADJECTIVE ▪ hot tempered; irritable. DERIVATIVES irascibility noun irascibly adverb. ORIGIN Latin irascibilis, from ira anger …   English terms dictionary

  • irascibility — noun see irascible …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • irascibility — See irascible. * * * …   Universalium

  • irascibility — noun The quality of being irascible; irritability of temper. See Also: irascible, irascibleness, irascibly …   Wiktionary

  • irascibility — Synonyms and related words: aggressiveness, agitability, bearishness, bellicosity, belligerence, bickering, bitchiness, cantankerousness, churlishness, combativeness, combustibility, contentiousness, contrariness, crabbedness, crankiness,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • irascibility — i·ras·ci·bil·i·ty || ɪ‚ræsÉ™ bɪlÉ™tɪ n. irritability, tendency to be easily angered …   English contemporary dictionary

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