cross-tempered
111crotchety — adjective it s the dreadful arthritis that has made him so crotchety Syn: bad tempered, irascible, irritable, grumpy, grouchy, cantankerous, short tempered, tetchy, testy, curmudgeonly, ill tempered, ill humored, ill natured, cross grained,… …
112crusty — adjective 1) crusty French bread Syn: crisp, crispy, well baked; crumbly, brittle, friable Ant: soft, soggy 2) a crusty old man Syn: irritable …
113churlish — adj 1. rustic, rural, peasantlike, agrestic, agrarian; pastoral, bucolic, bucolical, sylvan or silvan, Arcadian; inurbane, backwoods, provincial, countrified, countrybred, country born, upcountry, from the sticks, yokelish, Sl. hickish, Sl. rube …
114quarrelsome — adj 1. argumentative, inharmonious, contentious, combative, wranglesome; dissident, dissentient, dissentious; exceptive, controversial, litigious, disputatious, hostile, unpacific, pugnacious, combative; discordant, bellicose, battlesome,… …
115irascible — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. peevish, cranky, irritable; see angry , irritable . See Synonym Study at irritable . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) (VOCABULARY WORD) a. [i RAS uh bul] quick tempered or easily angered. Mike was irascible; we walked on… …
116bellicose — adj 1. aggressive, antagonistic, combative, belligerent, pugnacious; hostile, unfriendly, inimical; contentious, quarrelsome, dissentious, wrangling, litigious, disputatious, argumentative; opposed, faultfinding, captious; contrary, perverse,… …
117choleric — adj irascible, quick tempered, short tempered, Inf. short fused; testy, crusty, fractious, touchy, thin skinned, edgy, on edge, Sl. uptight, huffy, peppery; splenetic, spleenful, bilious, atrabilious, cranky, ill humored, ill tempered, Australian …
118irascible — adj testy, touchy, thin skinned, irritable, edgy, Sl. uptight, hasty; choleric, peppery, quick tempered, short tempered, Inf. short fused, Inf. trigger happy; cross, surly, churlish, snappy, snappish, waspish, petulant, peevish, huffy, huffish,… …
119irate — adj 1. wrathful, wroth, very angry, ireful, incensed; enraged, raging, fuming, infuriated, Rare. infuriate, furious; inflamed, flaming, flaring, flared up, heated, red hot, white hot; distraught, overwrought, upset, feverish, hysterical, not… …
120wrathful — adj 1. irate, ireful, angry, wroth, incensed; enraged, raging, fuming, infuriated, Rare. infuriate, furious; inflamed, flaming, flaring, flared up, heated, red hot, white hot; distraught, overwrought, upset, feverish, hysterical, irrational;… …
