irascibility

Roget-categorie 901

6. Words relating to the sentient and moral
› 6.3. Sympathetic affections
›› 6.3.1. Social affections

#901. Irascibility

zelfstandig naamwoord

irascibility, irascibleness, temper — crossness etc. adj. — susceptibility, procacity, petulance, irritability, tartness, acerbity, protervity — pugnacity etc. (contentiousness) 720.
excitability etc. 825 — bad temper, fiery temper, crooked temper, irritable etc. adj.. temper — genus irritabile [Lat.], hot blood.
ill humor etc. (sullenness) 901.1; asperity &c. — churlishness etc. (discourtesy) 895.
huff etc. (resentment) 900 — a word and a blow.
Sir Fretful Plagiary — brabbler^†, Tartar — shrew, vixen, virago, termagant, dragon, scold, Xantippe — porcupine — spitfire — fire eater etc. (blusterer) 887 — fury etc. (violent person) 173.

werkwoord

be irascible etc. adj. — have a temper etc. n., have a devil in one — fire up etc. (be angry) 900.

bijvoeglijk naamwoord

irascible — bad-tempered, ill-tempered — irritable, susceptible — excitable etc. 825 — thin-skinned etc. (sensitive) 822 — 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 etc. (bellicose) 720 — cantankerous, exceptious^† — restiff etc. (perverse) 901.1^† — churlish etc. (discourteous) 895.
cross, cross as crabs, cross as two sticks, cross as a cat, cross as a dog, cross as the tongs — fractious, peevish, acari=atre^†.
in a bad temper — sulky etc. 901.1; angry etc. 900.
resentful, resentive^† — vindictive etc. 919.

tussenwerpsel

pish!,

uitdrukking

a vieux comptes nouvelles disputes [Fr.] — quamvis tegatur proditur vultu furor [Lat.] [Seneca]; vino tortus et ira [Lat.] [Horace].

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