choleric

choleric
    adj 1: easily moved to anger; "men of the choleric type take to
           kicking and smashing"- H.G.Wells
    2: quickly aroused to anger; "a hotheaded commander" [syn:
       {choleric}, {irascible}, {hotheaded}, {hot-tempered}, {quick-
       tempered}, {short-tempered}]
    3: characterized by anger; "a choleric outburst"; "an irascible
       response" [syn: {choleric}, {irascible}]
    

Choleric \Chol"er*ic\, a. [L. cholericus, Gr. ?: cf. F.
   chol['e]rique.]
   1. Abounding with, or producing choler, or bile. --Dryden.
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   2. Easily irritated; irascible; inclined to anger.
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   3. Angry; indicating anger; excited by anger. "Choleric
      speech." --Sir W. Raleigh.
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   {Choleric temperament}, the bilious temperament.
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64 Moby Thesaurus words for "choleric":
      acerb, acerbate, acerbic, acid, acidic, acidulent, acidulous,
      acrimonious, ambivert, angry, bilious, bitter, burning, captious,
      carping, caustic, cranky, cycloid, cyclothyme, cyclothymic,
      dyspeptic, ectomorph, embittered, endomorph, extrovert,
      faultfinding, fiery, heated, hot-tempered, indignant, introvert,
      irate, ireful, jaundiced, mad, melancholic, mesomorph, phlegmatic,
      quick-tempered, rancorous, rankled, ratty, resentful, resenting,
      sanguine, schizoid, schizothyme, sore, sour, sour-tempered, soured,
      splenetic, spunky, stewing, syntone, testy, tetchy, touchy,
      vinegarish, virulent, waxy, wrathful, wrathy, wroth