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
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How to use irascible in a sentence
For all his egotism and irascibility, Churchill was a good man as well as a great one.
Yet despite his engaging irascibility, Mamoon never quite emerges as a character in his own right.
Pope was a member of the same coffee house club for a year, but his inborn irascibility eventually led him to drop out of it.
All About Coffee | William H. UkersThe mental state is characterised at once by great indifference and undue irascibility.
Degeneracy | Eugene S. TalbotSolicitor-General Hagerman spoke in a similar strain, but with less of irascibility.
The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion, Volume 1 | John Charles Dent
I found him a man of extreme irascibility without adequate cause; hasty in action in hazardous cases to a degree that alarmed me.
The Lily of the Valley | Honore de BalzacHe gave way to an irascibility which he tried to check, and to ask with indifference, "Why did he come back?"
The March Family Trilogy, Complete | William Dean Howells
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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