quick-tempered adj 1: quickly aroused to anger; "a hotheaded commander" [syn: {choleric}, {irascible}, {hotheaded}, {hot-tempered}, {quick-tempered}, {short-tempered}]
22 Moby Thesaurus words for "quick-tempered": abrupt, bad-tempered, choleric, churlish, excitable, hot-blooded, hot-tempered, ill-tempered, impatient, impulsive, irascible, irritable, quarrelsome, short, short-tempered, snappish, splenetic, temperamental, testy, touchy, volatile, waspish