irascible🔊

Easily provoked to outbursts of anger; irritable.

📑 Synonyms: cantankerous choleric cranky bad-tempered ill-tempered hot-tempered

💬 Quotations

Like some poor devils ashore that happen to know an irascible great man, they make distant unobtrusive salutations to him in the street, lest if they pursued the acquaintance further, they might receive a summary thump for their presumption.

Herman Melville, Moby-Dick (1851)

(theology) Relating to the irascible passions.

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