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short tempered
adjective as in irascible
adjective as in moody
Strong matches
Weak matches
- angry
- cantankerous
- capricious
- changeable
- crabbed
- crestfallen
- dismal
- doleful
- dour
- down in the dumps
- down in the mouth
- erratic
- fickle
- fitful
- flighty
- frowning
- gloomy
- glum
- huffy
- ill-humored
- ill-tempered
- impulsive
- in a huff
- in the doldrums
- introspective
- irascible
- irritable
- lugubrious
- mercurial
- miserable
- moping
- morose
- offended
- out of sorts
- pensive
- petulant
- piqued
- sad
- saturnine
- short-tempered
- splenetic
- sullen
- testy
- touchy
adjective as in peevish
Weak matches
- acrimonious
- angry
- bad-tempered
- cantankerous
- captious
- carping
- caviling
- childish
- churlish
- complaining
- crabbed
- cranky
- critical
- cross
- crotchety
- crusty
- cussed
- fault-finding
- fractious
- fretful
- fretting
- grouchy
- grousing
- growling
- grumpy
- huffy
- ill-natured
- mean
- morose
- obstinate
- ogre
- ornery
- out-of-sorts
- pertinacious
- petulant
- querulous
- short-tempered
- snappy
- splenetic
- sulky
- sullen
- surly
- tetchy
- touchy
- ugly
- waspish
- waspy
- whining
adjective as in quick-tempered
adjective as in short
adjective as in testy
adjective as in short-tempered
adjective as in short-tempered
adjective as in tetchy
adjective as in crusty
adjective as in fretful
adjective as in touchy
adjective as in quick to anger
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Example Sentences
I'm not violent, ever, but I can be short tempered and was afraid of myself.
With a short-tempered bang, Smith hung up, after saying that he would call back later.
He had lately become quick and short-tempered, but always with a visible attempt to be kind to those around him.
His demeanor was that of a man suffering an intolerable headache and correspondingly short-tempered.
Towards the end of that week the entire staff became exceedingly short tempered.
Should elderly, short-tempered Dowagers be permitted to use bad language?
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On this page you'll find 57 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to short-tempered, such as: cantankerous, choleric, crabby, gruff, harsh, and irascible.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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