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Having an impetuous or quick-tempered nature
Characterized by irritability or grouchiness
Adjective
▲
Having an impetuous or quick-tempered nature
hot-headed
hotheaded
fiery
irascible
impetuous
volatile
excitable
explosive
hasty
impatient
passionate
touchy
vehement
violent
headstrong
unruly
hot-tempered
quick-tempered
short-fused
easily provoked
emotional
petulant
sensitive
temperamental
hypersensitive
melodramatic
oversensitive
irritable
mean
ornery
froward
chippy
short-tempered
ticklish
easily upset
prima donna-ish
wilful
neurotic
overemotional
high-strung
highly strung
in bad mood
willful
thin-skinned
over-emotional
hot-blooded
choleric
angry
pettish
tempestuous
quarrelsome
snappy
querulous
fractious
intense
mercurial
incensed
stormy
easily offended
peppery
dramatic
inflamed
infuriated
shaken
fuming
furious
testy
frantic
raving
enraged
hottempered
steamed-up
all shook up
fierce
impassioned
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Adjective
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Characterized by irritability or grouchiness
filthy
irritable
surly
angry
antagonistic
belligerent
bitter
cantankerous
combative
disagreeable
foul
grouchy
malevolent
sulky
bad
bellicose
catty
confrontational
cross
grumpy
inconsiderate
inhospitable
irascible
malignant
pugnacious
rude
scrappy
snappish
snappy
sour
spiteful
sullen
tetchy
uncharitable
uncongenial
unfriendly
unsympathetic
vindictive
vitriolic
abusive
aggressive
churlish
cranky
fractious
furious
hostile
narky
ornery
peevish
petulant
querulous
rancorous
ratty
shirty
stroppy
testy
unsociable
wrathful
chippy
crotchety
curmudgeonly
grumbling
hateful
huffy
joyless
liverish
malicious
miffy
militant
peckish
soreheaded
splenetic
unkind
waxy
malign
unpleasant
venomous
viperous
ill-humored
US
ill-humoured
UK
ill-natured
ill-tempered
mean-spirited
bad-tempered
quick-tempered
short-tempered
evil-minded
hot-tempered
short-fused
touchy
prickly
waspish
crabby
choleric
peppery
eggy
crabbed
pettish
snaky
crusty
like a bear with a sore head
dyspeptic
bilious
fiery
perverse
snippy
impatient
volatile
shrewish
stuffy
cross-grained
snarky
snippety
scratchy
bearish
raspy
as cross as two sticks
snarling
quarrelsome
out of sorts
brusque
thin-skinned
in a mood
in a bad mood
temperamental
captious
edgy
mean
out of humor
fretful
gruff
moody
hotheaded
annoyed
acid
bloody-minded
hot-blooded
argumentative
curt
exasperated
morose
nasty
awkward
vinegary
having got out of bed the wrong side
uptight
truculent
obstinate
difficult
harsh
uncooperative
contrary
sensitive
sharp
excitable
fussy
passionate
complaining
out of temper
having got out of bed on the wrong side
tense
critical
disgruntled
oversensitive
impulsive
vicious
acrimonious
inflammable
iracund
iracundulous
saturnine
short
tart
cussed
waspy
grousing
dissatisfied
dour
easily upset
mardy
out of humour
griping
hot-headed
ugly
obstreperous
tooshie
ticklish
scornful
apt to fly off the handle
bad-humored
got up on wrong side of bed
like a bear
snarly
zowerswopped
atrabilious
wild
vinegarish
arsey
restless
froward
unruly
refractory
perversely irritable
bellyaching
beefing
owly
glum
huffish
feisty
whingy
bristly
ireful
misanthropic
cynical
contentious
pouty
pertinacious
discontented
hypercritical
whining
miserable
displeased
resentful
whiny
crybaby
ungracious
gloomy
pouting
tough
brooding
disputatious
fault-finding
on edge
acrid
trying
carping
nasty-tempered
mumpish
hot under the collar
growling
fretting
whingeing
childish
foul-tempered
out-of-sorts
cavilling
UK
hasty
caviling
US
sorehead
sore
blunt
chuffy
easily offended
threatening
piqued
indignant
glowering
scowling
fierce
irritated
vexed
mopey
unsmiling
discourteous
impolite
irate
uncivil
moping
warlike
agonistic
assaultive
irked
discordant
humourless
UK
humorless
US
poisonous
frowning
severe
gladiatorial
peeved
aggrieved
abrupt
riled
brawly
unhelpful
upset
embittered
enraged
put out
uncommunicative
unresponsive
on the warpath
in a huff
teed off
fed up
defiant
rough
stern
heated
offensive
aggravated
dark
unmannerly
bolshie
boorish
litigious
unhappy
louring
mad
provoked
cruel
oppugnant
steamed up
worked up
hot
foaming at the mouth
hacked off
ticked off
in a temper
bent out of shape
cheesed off
ill-mannered
acerbic
forbidding
violent
loudmouthed
hard
ferocious
taciturn
grim
miffed
antipathetic
menacing
obnoxious
galled
outraged
narked
livid
infuriated
apoplectic
impassioned
angered
fuming
sourpussed
incensed
sulking
aggers
ropeable
biffo
raving
agitated
crook
choked
impetuous
spoiling for a fight
salty
have chip on shoulder
up in arms
wroth
frenzied
in high dudgeon
not best pleased
have a bone to pick
wound up
ranting
hopping mad
sharp-tongued
in a lather
fit to be tied
tempestuous
virulent
browned off
peed off
aerated
cheerless
cutting
caustic
biting
destructive
inimical
acerb
abrasive
mopish
flinty
steely
uninviting
crude
serious
unapproachable
formidable
callous
offended
aloof
warring
rankled
ballistic
sombre
UK
stony
somber
US
malcontent
disobliging
rotten
snuffy
unfeeling
galling
vex
nettled
ticked
seething
wicked
brutal
intimidating
austere
lowering
solemn
grave
unlikable
insensitive
terse
wretched
hurtful
snide
vile
steamed
uncomfortable
agitable
raging
incandescent
rabid
hoha
disapproving
pitiless
comfortless
faultfinding
jumpy
maddened
base
grumbly
storming
seeing red
in a paddy
boiling
flip
spare
provocative
roiled
infuriate
hopping
in a pet
bristling
wounding
strident
steaming
evil-intentioned
beside oneself
frustrated
with all guns blazing
annoying
looking for trouble
down in the mouth
sarcastic
in a fume
antisocial
going crook
vengeful
in a bate
hysterical
horn-mad
have it in for
in a frenzy
ardent
inflamed
icy
contemptible
blue in the face
riley
mean-looking
on the outs
hate-filled
brawling
enflamed
foaming
at loggerheads
beside yourself with rage
recalcitrant
contumacious
vehement
sober
pessimistic
quick to anger
envenomed
unreasonable
unaccommodating
grudging
Eeyorish
with a long face
tempersome
stressy
having short fuse
hot under collar
unindulgent
unceremonious
plaintive
murmuring
disappointed
forceful
ungenerous
long-faced
jaundiced
uncontrollable
hard-nosed
sharp-tempered
spunky
acute
censorious
smileless
objectionable
discontent
emotional
disaffected
balky
hypersensitive
bluff
naysaying
opinionated
ungratified
malcontented
toey
obstructive
disrespectful
offhand
wired up
bundle of nerves
highly strung
perturbable
huffy irascible
moaning
hard to please
bemoaning
whimpering
wailing
negative
crying
deploring
lamenting
kvetching
bothered
affronted
flustered
boisterous
off
no-nonsense
offish
disputative
rebellious
having a chip on one's shoulder
pushy
self-assertive
ready to fight
itching to fight
crabbing
uncontent
kicking
hurt
brassed off
disturbed
harassed
unamused
scunnered
troubled
harried
ruffled
wrath
snitty
hassled
bad tempered
out of joint
pigheaded
unlovable
factious
thrawn
dejected
broody
ready for a fight
turbulent
bickering
battling
dissentious
ructious
unbearable
unloveable
fighting
war
arguesome
controversial
insufferable
irritating
wrangling
polemical
polemic
easily frightened
blue
wounded
neurotic
easily agitated
kittle
high-strung
mopy
skittish
hawkish
antagonized
US
contrarious
nagging
evil
warmongering
militaristic
hacked
very angry
in a rage
off the air
frantic
dogged
perturbed
all steamed up
overcome with anger
burned up
bummed out
at end of one's rope
bugged
boiling mad
hot and bothered
antagonised
UK
scandalized
US
shocked
pushed too far
rousted
beside yourself
at boiling point
raging mad
rubbed the wrong way
blown a gasket
scandalised
UK
roused
in a filthy temper
buffaloed
maleficent
baleful
scolding
criticizing
US
crass
jingoistic
black
malefic
execrable
unfair
ruthless
ignominious
sordid
ignoble
currish
dirty
unsportsmanlike
dishonourable
UK
despiteful
dishonorable
US
despicable
detestable
low
low-minded
paltry
low-down
sabre-rattling
battleful
ungentlemanly
adversarial
backbiting
vixenish
cattish
criticising
UK
ungallant
overwrought
distraught
worried
unchivalrous
anxious
stressed
fidgety
vulgar
coarse
distressed
ignorant
wreck
rattled
wrought up
overstrung
twitchy
ill at ease
nervous
het up
clodhopping
bad-mannered
rustic
lowbred
unneighborly
psyched up
angerful
cold
convulsed
mighty
withdrawn
having a fit of the sulks
in a funk
in the sulks
depressed
in a strop
negativistic
psychopathic
passive-aggressive
distant
strict
ungentle
savage
fell
stiff
sinister
stark
boot-faced
resolute
gray
US
grey
UK
bleak
spirited
intolerant
lively
manic
lawless
uneasy
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