irascible
easily provoked to anger; very irritable: an irascible old man.
characterized or produced by anger: an irascible response.
Origin of irascible
1synonym study For irascible
Other words for irascible
Opposites for irascible
Other words from irascible
- i·ras·ci·bil·i·ty, i·ras·ci·ble·ness, noun
- i·ras·ci·bly, adverb
- un·i·ras·ci·bil·i·ty, noun
- un·i·ras·ci·ble, adjective
Words that may be confused with irascible
- erasable, irascible
Words Nearby irascible
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How to use irascible in a sentence
He was much more emotional, irascible and difficult, but also intellectually, he was changed.
The British establishment was furious, and it was the irascible Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, who lead the fight-back.
He struggled with his brilliant but irascible secretary of state, William Seward, to control the direction of foreign policy.
Wagner, as irascible and cynical as he can be, is a subtly empathetic writer.
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But science has a process for all of this—scientists tend to be irascible, doubting, and arrogant if not annoying.
These often complained, not only of her pride and reserve, but of her high and irascible temper and vindictive disposition.
Peveril of the Peak | Sir Walter ScottThere was never seen upon the stage a princess of so wild, irascible, and determined a character as this Clarice.
The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the first | Count Carlo GozziThe irascible person, ready to take offence at trifles, and in other ways uncertain.
Recollections of Thirty-nine Years in the Army | Charles Alexander GordonTo dispositions highly irascible, it is frequently more gratifying to have a subject of complaint than of acknowledgment.
Camilla | Fanny BurneyHe is ambitious, irascible, a spoilt child of fortune; the most susceptible and the vainest of men.
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British Dictionary definitions for irascible
/ (ɪˈræsɪbəl) /
easily angered; irritable
showing irritability: an irascible action
Origin of irascible
1Derived forms of irascible
- irascibility or irascibleness, noun
- irascibly, adverb
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