Synonyms for Irascible:

• adj.

  •acrimonious (adjective)
  • more splenetic,
  • mordant,
  • most splenetic,
  • splenetic.
  •all (adjective)
  • irascible,
  • choleric.
  •angry (adjective)
  • raging,
  • enraged,
  • passionate,
  • huffy.
  •cantankerous (adjective)
  • more vinegary,
  • more ill-humored,
  • ill natured,
  • bad tempered,
  • ill-humored,
  • dis-agreeable,
  • morose,
  • illhumored,
  • more vinegarish,
  • more illhumored,
  • dis agreeable,
  • illnatured,
  • most vinegarish,
  • most bearish,
  • obstinate,
  • badtempered,
  • most ill-humored,
  • most illhumored,
  • more bearish,
  • ill humored,
  • more ill humored,
  • most vinegary,
  • most ill humored.
  •crabby (adjective)
  • petulant,
  • thin-skinned,
  • ireful,
  • crabbed,
  • irritable,
  • surly,
  • ogre,
  • feisty,
  • hot-tempered,
  • peevish,
  • bristly,
  • snappish,
  • hasty.
  •crabby/crabbed (adjective)
  • most crabbed,
  • most nasty-tempered,
  • most nasty tempered,
  • nasty tempered,
  • more nastytempered,
  • more nasty-tempered,
  • un-sociable,
  • gloomy,
  • nastytempered,
  • mis anthropic,
  • more nasty tempered,
  • un sociable,
  • mis-anthropic,
  • more difficult,
  • most nastytempered.
  •cranky (adjective)
  • got wrong side of bed,
  • got on wrong side of bed,
  • most cussed,
  • more bad-humored,
  • got on wrong side bed,
  • got up wrong side of bed,
  • most bad humored,
  • hot tempered,
  • most bad-humored,
  • most badhumored,
  • got wrong side bed,
  • got up on wrong side bed,
  • bad humored,
  • got upon wrong side of bed,
  • more bad humored,
  • more cussed,
  • more badhumored,
  • badhumored,
  • got upon wrong side bed,
  • out sorts,
  • like bear,
  • got up wrong side bed.
  •cross (adjective)
  • more caviling,
  • more pettish,
  • faultfinding,
  • out humor,
  • most caviling,
  • most pettish.
  •crusty (adjective)
  • most snarling,
  • more snarling.
  •edgy (adjective)
  • ill ease,
  • more overstrung,
  • ex cited,
  • most overstrung,
  • highstrung,
  • ex-cited,
  • high strung,
  • overstrung,
  • over strung,
  • over-strung.
  •emotional (adjective)
  • warm.
  •excitable (adjective)
  • Agitable,
  • reckless,
  • fidgety,
  • excitable,
  • volcanic,
  • Alarmable,
  • overzealous,
  • mercurial,
  • galvanic,
  • over-zealous,
  • hysterical,
  • short fused.
  •fiery (adjective)
  • most alight,
  • flickering,
  • most aflame,
  • in-tensest,
  • more flaring,
  • in-tense,
  • in tense,
  • in-tenser,
  • more igneous,
  • ignited,
  • most precipitate,
  • hot-blooded,
  • more alight,
  • hot blooded,
  • most igneous,
  • most ignited,
  • more aflame,
  • in tenser,
  • more ignited,
  • un-restrained,
  • most flaring.
  •grouchy (adjective)
  • dis-contented,
  • grumbling,
  • most discontented,
  • dis contented.
  •hot (adjective)
  • most aroused,
  • more aroused.
  •impatient (adjective)
  • racing motor,
  • headlong,
  • on pins needles,
  • more unindulgent,
  • most chafing,
  • more chafing,
  • head-long,
  • more straining,
  • most straining,
  • thirsty,
  • un indulgent,
  • ripe,
  • most appetent,
  • head long,
  • racing one's motor,
  • racing ones motor,
  • unindulgent,
  • more appetent,
  • most unindulgent,
  • un-indulgent,
  • racing one motor.
  •irritable (adjective)
  • acid,
  • tart,
  • bitter,
  • churlish,
  • easily offended,
  • bellicose,
  • acerbic,
  • spiteful,
  • bitchy,
  • crabby,
  • oversensitive,
  • prickly,
  • sour,
  • caustic,
  • Fretting,
  • petty.
  •moody (adjective)
  • in huff,
  • most moping,
  • down mouth,
  • more moping,
  • introspective,
  • down dumps,
  • down the dumps,
  • down the mouth.
  •passionate (adjective)
  • most steamed-up,
  • most steamed up,
  • most steamedup,
  • steamedup,
  • more steamedup,
  • more steamed up,
  • more steamed-up.
  •peppery (adjective)
  • most sharptempered,
  • sharptempered,
  • more sharptempered,
  • sharp tempered,
  • more sharp tempered,
  • more sharp-tempered,
  • most sharp tempered,
  • most sharp-tempered.
  •pugnacious (adjective)
  • ready to fight,
  • self-assertive,
  • itching to fight,
  • have a bone to pick,
  • have bone to pick.
  •quarrelsome (adjective)
  • have chip on shoulder,
  • most gladiatorial,
  • more cat and dog,
  • more dissentious,
  • warrest,
  • have chip shoulder,
  • cat and dog,
  • most dissentious,
  • thinskinned,
  • thin skinned,
  • more gladiatorial,
  • most cat and dog,
  • most cat-and-dog,
  • more cat-and-dog,
  • most ructious,
  • more ructious.
  •quick-tempered (adjective)
  • quicktempered,
  • quick tempered.
  •sarcastic (adjective)
  • most ironical,
  • most taunting,
  • needling,
  • smartalecky,
  • dis respectful,
  • more needling,
  • most twitting,
  • more weisenheiming,
  • most needling,
  • most weisenheiming,
  • more twitting,
  • dis illusioned,
  • dis-illusioned,
  • more taunting,
  • most chaffing,
  • more chaffing,
  • dis-respectful.
  •short (adjective)
  • breviloquent.
  •short-tempered (adjective)
  • most shortfused,
  • more shortfused,
  • more peckish,
  • short tempered,
  • more short-fused,
  • most short fused,
  • shortfused,
  • more short fused,
  • most peckish,
  • shorttempered,
  • most short-fused.
  •sullen (adjective)
  • malevolent,
  • glowering,
  • grim,
  • uncooperative,
  • sullen,
  • beetle-browed,
  • dour,
  • sulky,
  • fretful,
  • unsociable,
  • dissociable,
  • mean,
  • grumpy,
  • dark,
  • unfriendly,
  • glum,
  • hostile,
  • broody,
  • long-faced,
  • noncooperative,
  • dejected,
  • ungenial,
  • melancholy,
  • frowning,
  • contrary,
  • scowling,
  • Moping,
  • cynical.
  •touchy (adjective)
  • un-safer,
  • un predictable,
  • bundle nerves,
  • un safer,
  • most hypersensitive,
  • wired up,
  • un-safe,
  • more perturbable,
  • un-safest,
  • pre carious,
  • hyper sensitive,
  • hyper-sensitive,
  • un safe,
  • most perturbable,
  • un safest,
  • un-predictable,
  • more hypersensitive,
  • pre-carious.
  •twitchy (adjective)
  • a bundle nerves.
  •uneasy (adjective)
  • un easier,
  • un-quiet,
  • un stable,
  • more palpitant,
  • un quieter,
  • dis-mayed,
  • un-quietest,
  • most palpitant,
  • more anguished,
  • un settled,
  • un-easiest,
  • un easy,
  • more tormented,
  • un easiest,
  • most anguished,
  • in-secure,
  • most discomposed,
  • in securer,
  • un-stabler,
  • un-settled,
  • dis quieted,
  • more dismayed,
  • most dismayed,
  • un stablest,
  • dis mayed,
  • un-quieter,
  • up-set,
  • in securest,
  • un stabler,
  • most harassed,
  • dis composed,
  • more discomposed,
  • on qui vive,
  • more harassed,
  • un-easy,
  • un quietest,
  • dis-quieted,
  • most disquieted,
  • harassed,
  • in secure,
  • un-stable,
  • dis-composed,
  • in-securer,
  • most tormented,
  • un quiet,
  • un-stablest,
  • more disquieted,
  • un-easier,
  • in-securest.
  •warm (adjective)
  • most gung ho,
  • more gungho,
  • most gung-ho,
  • most gungho,
  • more gung-ho,
  • gungho,
  • more gung ho.

• n.

  •
  • sensitive,
  • fractious,
  • temperamental.
  •
  • disagreeable,
  • nasty,
  • attitude,
  • ugly,
  • querulous,
  • snappy.
  •
  • feelings.
  •hotheaded (noun)
  • hotheaded.
  •ill-natured (noun)
  • ill-natured.
  •irascible (noun)
  • short.
  •peevish (noun)
  • study at irritable.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • jaundiced,
  • choosy,
  • hypercritical,
  • nagging,
  • bad-tempered,
  • fussy,
  • pedantic,
  • curmudgeonly,
  • tetchy,
  • uneasy,
  • high-maintenance,
  • unforgiving,
  • judgmental,
  • picky,
  • censorious,
  • pedantry,
  • Hot-headed,
  • insatiable,
  • pernickety,
  • obstreperous.
  •
  • miserable,
  • uptight,
  • finicky,
  • persnickety,
  • bilious,
  • demanding,
  • foul,
  • ill-tempered.
  •
  • difficult.
  •
  • particular.
  •worried
  • troubled.
  •Other relevant words:
  • criticizing,
  • on edge,
  • worked up,
  • blunt,
  • curt,
  • bitching,
  • wroth,
  • antagonistic,
  • biting,
  • indignant,
  • fervent,
  • raspy,
  • factious,
  • high-spirited,
  • divisive,
  • bickering,
  • impolite,
  • cheesed off,
  • perverse,
  • gruff,
  • easily provoked,
  • livid,
  • over-particular,
  • currish,
  • ornery,
  • on the warpath,
  • high-keyed,
  • High-mettled,
  • vexed,
  • irritated,
  • light,
  • spirited,
  • bad,
  • impassioned,
  • Snippety,
  • ratty,
  • dissentient,
  • polemical,
  • capricious,
  • ardent,
  • browned off,
  • and Irish cranky,
  • Startlish,
  • carping,
  • resentful,
  • fire up,
  • attuned,
  • sharp,
  • annoyed,
  • shortest,
  • shirty,
  • explosive,
  • patchy,
  • vicious,
  • cutting,
  • inflammable,
  • partisan,
  • irate,
  • litigious,
  • animated,
  • cussed,
  • itchy,
  • violent,
  • belligerent,
  • vigorous,
  • virulent,
  • stormy,
  • Cankered,
  • supersensitive,
  • nervous,
  • Piqued,
  • Fault-finding,
  • restive,
  • excited,
  • disputatious,
  • finical,
  • shrewish,
  • dissident,
  • obnoxious,
  • rude,
  • stroppy,
  • combative,
  • exasperated,
  • skittish,
  • Fuming,
  • wrathful,
  • wayward,
  • Polarizing,
  • peremptory,
  • eruptive,
  • myopic,
  • heated,
  • restless,
  • ill-humoured,
  • huffish,
  • brainish,
  • intolerant,
  • discourteous,
  • zealous,
  • A,
  • acidulous,
  • grousing,
  • Snarling,
  • terse,
  • wrangling,
  • tense,
  • cruel,
  • froward,
  • wrongheaded,
  • aggressive,
  • bluff,
  • harsh,
  • crotchety,
  • cross-grained,
  • eager,
  • captious,
  • brusque,
  • be angry,
  • madcap,
  • provoked,
  • emotional,
  • furious,
  • contentious,
  • uncivil,
  • unpleasant,
  • quick,
  • on tenterhooks,
  • inadequate,
  • critical,
  • jumpy,
  • dyspeptic,
  • high-strung,
  • stinging,
  • reactive,
  • abusive,
  • anxious,
  • whining,
  • easily excited,
  • infuriated,
  • highly strung,
  • mettlesome,
  • complaining,
  • inconsiderate,
  • snippy,
  • responsive,
  • Spleeny,
  • impressionable,
  • bad-humoured,
  • vulnerable,
  • abrupt,
  • tearaway,
  • apprehensive,
  • ill at ease,
  • impetuous,
  • wrath,
  • incensed,
  • in a pique,
  • poor,
  • edge,
  • turbulent,
  • keen,
  • shortsighted,
  • murmuring,
  • susceptible,
  • volatile,
  • Squabbling,
  • impulsive,
  • Short-spoken,
  • satiric,
  • Susceptive,
  • mad,
  • lively,
  • fierce,
  • acerb,
  • argumentative,
  • fervid,
  • up in arms,
  • stuffy,
  • intense.

Antonyms for Irascible:

• adj.

  • crabby
    happy, cheerful, pleasant, cool.
  • Other antonyms:
    sociable, carefree, relaxed, happy-go-lucky, obliging, friendly, extroverted, gregarious, outgoing, cordial, uncomplaining, companionable, long-suffering, easygoing, tolerant, unangry, well-disposed, forbearing, patient, understanding, stoic.