Irascibility


Synonyms for irascibility
noun temper

fury
tiff
sensitivity
resentment
snit
irritation
anger
irritability
annoyance
pugnacity
impatience
fit
acerbity

passion
wax
furor
ire
outburst
tizzy
petulance
heat
stew
temperament
peevishness
sullenness
tantrum

miff
spleen
tear
tartness
rage
tetchiness
dander
irascibleness
short fuse
sourness
crossness
surliness
fretfulness

touchiness
excitability
huffiness
bad humor
cantankerousness
grouchiness
hotheadedness
ill-humor
low boiling point
slow burn

Antonyms for irascibility

calm
happiness
calmness
contentment

joy
control
peace
harmony

pleasure
enjoyment
ease

Concept Thesaurus for word irascibility
1. Social Affections
Synonyms – noun

irascibility
susceptibility
tartness
excitability
irritable temper
asperity, churlishness (discourtesy)
brabbler
virago
Xantippe
fury (violent person)

irascibleness
procacity
acerbity
bad temper
genus irritabile
huff (resentment)
Tartar
termagant
porcupine

temper
petulance
protervity
fiery temper
hot blood.
a word and a blow.
shrew
dragon
spitfire

crossness
irritability
pugnacity (contentiousness)
crooked temper
ill humor (sullenness)
Sir Fretful Plagiary
vixen
scold
fire eater (blusterer)

Synonyms – verbs

be irascible

have a temper

have a devil in one

fire up (be angry)

Synonyms – adjectives

irascible
susceptible
fidgety
quick
touchy
like tinder
waspish
passionate
[As You Like It].
quarrelsome
cantankerous
cross
cross as a dog
in a bad temper
vindictive

bad-tempered
excitable
on the fret.
warm
techy
huffy
snappish
choleric
querulous
contentious
exceptious
cross as crabs
cross as the tongs
sulky

ill-tempered
thin-skinned (sensitive) [more]
hasty
hot
tetchy
pettish
peppery
shrewish
captious
disputatious
restiff (perverse)
cross as two sticks
fractious
angry. resentful

irritable
fretful
overhasty
testy
like touchwood
petulant
fiery
“sudden and quick in quarrel”
moodish
pugnacious (bellicose)
churlish (discourteous)
cross as a cat
peevish
resentive

Synonyms – phrases
a vieux comptes nouvelles disputes; quamvis tegatur proditur vultu furor [Seneca]; vino tortus et ira [Horace].
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