What is another word for irascible?

Pronunciation: [ɪɹˈasəbə͡l] (IPA)

Irascible is a term used to describe a person who gets easily provoked or angry. It is often associated with short-temperedness and irritability. However, there are other words that are synonymous with this adjective. These include irritable, testy, grumpy, prickly, choleric, cantankerous, and pettish. These words are often used to describe people who have a tendency to snap or lose their temper quickly. Using these synonyms can help vary your writing and avoid repetitive language. Whether it is in creative writing or journalism, or even in casual conversation, having a full range of vocabulary is important in expressing oneself effectively.

Synonyms for Irascible:

What are the hypernyms for Irascible?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the opposite words for irascible?

The word "irascible" describes someone who is easily angered or prone to outbursts of anger, frustration, or irritation. Antonyms for this word would include terms that describe individuals who are patient, calm, and peaceful. These antonyms could include words like relaxed, composed, serene, unruffled, placid, easy-going, and unflappable. Someone who is described using these terms would be generally easy to get along with, patient, and not prone to sudden outbursts of anger or irritability. These individuals would be much more easy to work with and interact with, making for a much more harmonious and positive environment.

Usage examples for Irascible

"I'll send Minna to the saddler's with it directly after supper," said his wife, as usual taking care not to contradict her irascible husband.
"The Song of Songs"
Hermann Sudermann
But we now come to a most extraordinary thing-the result of the young author's telling and most sarcastic portrait of the irascible little judge.
"Bardell v. Pickwick"
Percy Fitzgerald
Without it we become cross, censorious and irascible.
"Around The Tea-Table"
T. De Witt Talmage

Famous quotes with Irascible

  • I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible.
    Ezra Pound
  • Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell, and kill me again or take me as I am, for I shall not change.
    Marquis de Sade
  • To me, therefore, that Thracian Orpheus, that Theban, and that Methymnaean,--men, and yet unworthy of the name,--seem to have been deceivers, who, under the pretence of poetry corrupting human life, possessed by a spirit of artful sorcery for purposes of destruction, celebrating crimes in their orgies, and making human woes the materials of religious worship, were the first to entice men to idols; nay, to build up the stupidity of the nations with blocks of wood and stone,--that is, statues and images,--subjecting to the yoke of extremest bondage the truly noble freedom of those who lived as free citizens under heaven by their songs and incantations. But not such is my song, which has come to loose, and that speedily, the bitter bondage of tyrannizing demons; and leading us back to the mild and loving yoke of piety, recalls to heaven those that had been cast prostrate to the earth. It alone has tamed men, the most intractable of animals; the frivolous among them answering to the fowls of the air, deceivers to reptiles, the irascible to lions, the voluptuous to swine, the rapacious to wolves. The silly are stocks and stones, and still more senseless than stones is a man who is steeped in ignorance. As our witness, let us adduce the voice of prophecy accordant with truth, and bewailing those who are crushed in ignorance and folly: "For God is able of these stones to raise up children to Abraham;" and He, commiserating their great ignorance and hardness of heart who are petrified against the truth, has raised up a seed of piety, sensitive to virtue, of those stones--of the nations, that is, who trusted in stones. Again, therefore, some venomous and false hypocrites, who plotted against righteousness, he once called "a brood of vipers." But if one of those serpents even is willing to repent, and follows the Word, he becomes a man of God.
    Clement of Alexandria
  • [Diogenes] was surprised by the fact that had he claimed to be a physician for the teeth, everybody would flock to him who needed to have a tooth pulled; yes, and by heavens, had he professed to treat the eyes, all who were suffering from sore eyes would present themselves, and similarly, if he had claimed to know of a medicine for diseases of the spleen or for gout or for running of the nose; but when he declared that all who should follow his treatment would be relieved of folly, wickedness, and intemperance, not a man would listen to him or seek to be cured by him, ... as though it were worse for a man to suffer from an enlarged spleen or a decayed tooth than from a soul that is foolish, ignorant, cowardly, rash, pleasure-loving, illiberal, irascible, unkind, and wicked, in fact utterly corrupt.
    Dio Chrysostom

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