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choleric

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Adjective
 : 
chol=er=ic

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective choleric has 3 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

cholerica. [L. cholericus, Gr. : cf. F. cholérique.].
  •  Abounding with, or producing choler, or bile.  Dryden.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Easily irritated; irascible; inclined to anger.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Angry; indicating anger; excited by anger.  Sir W. Raleigh.  [1913 Webster]
Choleric temperament, the bilious temperament.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

choleric, adj. irascible, angry.

Derivative
cholerically adv.
Etymology
ME f. OF cholerique f. L cholericus f. Gk kholerikos: see CHOLER

THESAURUS

choleric

acerb, acerbate, acerbic, acid, acidic, acidulent, acidulous, acrimonious, ambivert, angry, bilious, bitter, burning, captious, carping, caustic, cranky, cycloid, cyclothyme, cyclothymic, dyspeptic, ectomorph, embittered, endomorph, extrovert, faultfinding, fiery, heated, hot-tempered, indignant, introvert, irate, ireful, jaundiced, mad, melancholic, mesomorph, phlegmatic, quick-tempered, rancorous, rankled, ratty, resentful, resenting, sanguine, schizoid, schizothyme, sore, sour, sour-tempered, soured, splenetic, spunky, stewing, syntone, testy, tetchy, touchy, vinegarish, virulent, waxy, wrathful, wrathy, wroth

ROGET THESAURUS

choleric

Irascibility

N irascibility, irascibleness, temper, crossness, susceptibility, procacity, petulance, irritability, tartness, acerbity, protervity, pugnacity, excitability, bad temper, fiery temper, crooked temper, irritable, temper, genus irritabile, hot blood, ill humor, asperity, churlishness, huff, a word and a blow, Sir Fretful Plagiary, brabbler, Tartar, shrew, vixen, virago, termagant, dragon, scold, Xantippe, porcupine, spitfire, fire eater, fury, irascible, bad-tempered, ill-tempered, irritable, susceptible, excitable, thin-skinned, fretful, fidgety, on the fret, hasty, overhasty, quick, warm, hot, testy, touchy, techy, tetchy, like touchwood, like tinder, huffy, pettish, petulant, waspish, snappish, peppery, fiery, passionate, choleric, shrewish, sudden and quick in quarrel, querulous, captious, moodish, quarrelsome, contentious, disputatious, pugnacious, cantankerous, exceptious, restiff, churlish, cross, cross as crabs, cross as two sticks, cross as a cat, cross as a dog, cross as the tongs, fractious, peevish, acari=atre, in a bad temper, sulky, angry, resentful, resentive, vindictive, Int, pish!, a vieux comptes nouvelles disputes, quamvis tegatur proditur vultu furor, vino tortus et ira.

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