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Synonyms for short-tempered

  • adjective

Most common

hot-headed hot-tempered quick-tempered irascible

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Adjective

hot-headed, quick-tempered, irascible, hot-tempered, irritable, choleric, peevish, petulant, quick, ratty, cantankerous, cranky, temperamental, testy, fretful, ill-natured, touchy, hasty, waspish, splenetic, snappish

Antonyms

cool-headed, even-tempered, cool

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Definitions

  1. adj. 1

    Easily angered; frequently losing one's temper.

    She is so short-tempered that people avoid her company.

Related words

Is a kind of
impatient temperamental

Example sentences

  • irascible He has an impetuous and irascible personality.

By length

5 letters
quick1, hasty2, ratty2, testy2
6 letters
cranky2, touchy2
7 letters
fretful2, peevish2, waspish
8 letters
petulant3, choleric3, snappish
9 letters
irritable4, irascible4, splenetic
12 letters
cantankerous4
13 letters
temperamental4

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (hasty2 = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français
colérique
Español
colérico
Deutsch
cholerisch