What is another word for irascible?
662 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ ɪɹˈasəbə͡l], [ ɪɹˈasəbəl], [ ɪ_ɹ_ˈa_s_ə_b_əl]
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Similar words for irascible:
- acrimonious (adjective)
- all (adjective)
- angry (adjective)
- cantankerous (adjective)
- crabby (adjective)
- crabby/crabbed (adjective)
- cranky (adjective)
- cross (adjective)
- crusty (adjective)
- edgy (adjective)
- emotional (adjective)
- excitable (adjective)
- fiery (adjective)
- grouchy (adjective)
- hot (adjective)
- impatient (adjective)
- irritable (adjective)
- moody (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- passionate (adjective)
- peppery (adjective)
- pugnacious (adjective)
- quarrelsome (adjective)
- quick-tempered (adjective)
- sarcastic (adjective)
- short (adjective)
- short-tempered (adjective)
- sullen (adjective)
- touchy (adjective)
- twitchy (adjective)
- uneasy (adjective)
- warm (adjective)
- hotheaded (noun)
- ill-natured (noun)
- irascible (noun)
- peevish (noun)
- other relevant words (verb)
- other synonyms
- worried
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Irascible:
adj.
• acrimonious (adjective) • all (adjective) • angry (adjective)- raging,
- enraged,
- passionate,
- huffy.
- 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.
- petulant,
- thin-skinned,
- ireful,
- crabbed,
- irritable,
- surly,
- ogre,
- feisty,
- hot-tempered,
- peevish,
- bristly,
- snappish,
- hasty.
- 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.
- 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.
- ill ease,
- more overstrung,
- ex cited,
- most overstrung,
- highstrung,
- ex-cited,
- high strung,
- overstrung,
- over strung,
- over-strung.
- warm.
- Agitable,
- reckless,
- fidgety,
- excitable,
- volcanic,
- Alarmable,
- overzealous,
- mercurial,
- galvanic,
- over-zealous,
- hysterical,
- short fused.
- 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.
- 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.
- acid,
- tart,
- bitter,
- churlish,
- easily offended,
- bellicose,
- acerbic,
- spiteful,
- bitchy,
- crabby,
- oversensitive,
- prickly,
- sour,
- caustic,
- Fretting,
- petty.
- in huff,
- most moping,
- down mouth,
- more moping,
- introspective,
- down dumps,
- down the dumps,
- down the mouth.
- all shook up,
- grouchy,
- smart alecky,
- cantankerous,
- in the doldrums,
- quick-tempered,
- cross,
- short-fused,
- morbid,
- sarcastic,
- weisenheiming,
- steamed-up,
- in doldrums,
- hot,
- scoffing,
- in flames,
- out of humor,
- pugnacious,
- nasty-tempered,
- fiery,
- bundle of nerves,
- edgy,
- moody,
- igneous,
- down in dumps,
- touchy,
- hottempered,
- peppery,
- REDHOT,
- in a huff,
- a bundle of nerves,
- warrer,
- red hot,
- vinegary,
- in turmoil,
- on the qui vive,
- dying to,
- down in mouth,
- down in the dumps,
- dissentious,
- crusty,
- Perturbable,
- acrimonious,
- vinegarish,
- short-tempered,
- cat-and-dog,
- hotblooded,
- angry,
- having short fuse,
- waspish,
- got up on wrong side of bed,
- sharp-tempered,
- hypersensitive,
- cranky,
- twitchy,
- sardonic,
- quarrelsome,
- Chuffy,
- aflame,
- hot under collar,
- testy,
- Mumpish,
- ructious,
- snarky,
- on pins and needles,
- impatient,
- up set,
- bad-humored,
- palpitant,
- all wound up,
- gladiatorial,
- unforbearing,
- steamed up,
- peckish,
- like a bear,
- all nerves,
- gung-ho,
- anguished,
- bearish,
- pettish,
- keyed up.
- most steamed-up,
- most steamed up,
- most steamedup,
- steamedup,
- more steamedup,
- more steamed up,
- more steamed-up.
- most sharptempered,
- sharptempered,
- more sharptempered,
- sharp tempered,
- more sharp tempered,
- more sharp-tempered,
- most sharp tempered,
- most sharp-tempered.
- 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.
- 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.
- most shortfused,
- more shortfused,
- more peckish,
- short tempered,
- more short-fused,
- most short fused,
- shortfused,
- more short fused,
- most peckish,
- shorttempered,
- most short-fused.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
n.
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- feelings.
v.
• Other relevant words: (verb)Other synonyms:
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- jaundiced,
- choosy,
- hypercritical,
- nagging,
- bad-tempered,
- fussy,
- pedantic,
- curmudgeonly,
- tetchy,
- uneasy,
- high-maintenance,
- unforgiving,
- judgmental,
- picky,
- censorious,
- pedantry,
- Hot-headed,
- insatiable,
- pernickety,
- obstreperous.
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- miserable,
- uptight,
- finicky,
- persnickety,
- bilious,
- demanding,
- foul,
- ill-tempered.
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- difficult.
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- particular.
- 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.
How to use "Irascible" in context?
Irascible is defined as having a temperament characterized by strong emotion, often irritability. People who are irascible have a hard time maintaining composure and can easily become angry. This emotional volatility can often lead to conflict and upset. Irascible people tend to be quick to anger and quick to spring into action, often taking rash decisions. They may also be short-tempered and easily frustrated. However, irascible people can also be very likable and interesting, as they are often full of energy and spunk.
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- comblike, acerate, acerose, ailing, arbor, barbellate, biting, briery, bristled, bristly.
