Thesaurus / quicktempered
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synonyms for quicktempered
- contentious
- testy
- petulant
- resentful
- fractious
- surly
- annoyed
- prickly
- cantankerous
- carping
- choleric
- complaining
- cross
- crotchety
- disputatious
- dissatisfied
- dyspeptic
- fiery
- fretful
- gloomy
- grouchy
- grumbling
- hasty
- hot
- huffy
- hypercritical
- irascible
- moody
- morose
- peevish
- plaintive
- querulous
- quick-tempered
- sensitive
- snappy
- tense
- touchy
- crabbed
- exasperated
- bearish
- brooding
- easily offended
- fretting
- ill-humored
- out of humor
- oversensitive
- snarling
- furious
- vehement
- violent
- fiery
- choleric
- enraged
- frantic
- hotheaded
- inflamed
- irascible
- irritable
- mean
- peppery
- quick-tempered
- shaken
- stormy
- tempestuous
- testy
- touchy
- all shook up
- hottempered
- steamed-up
- acute
- angry
- astringent
- biting
- caustic
- choleric
- cranky
- cross
- fiery
- hot-tempered
- incisive
- irascible
- keen
- lively
- passionate
- quick-tempered
- sharp
- snappish
- spirited
- spunky
- stinging
- testy
- touchy
- trenchant
- waspish
- sharp-tempered
- choleric
- cranky
- cross
- excitable
- fiery
- hot-tempered
- impatient
- impulsive
- inflammable
- irascible
- irritable
- passionate
- peppery
- petulant
- quarrelsome
- ratty
- sensitive
- short-tempered
- shrewish
- temperamental
- testy
- waspish
- splenetic
- cross
- disagreeable
- edgy
- fractious
- hasty
- huffy
- petulant
- quick-tempered
- snappish
- tart
- testy
- touchy
- waspish
- sullen
- cantankerous
- cranky
- edgy
- impatient
- uptight
- quarrelsome
- grumpy
- annoyed
- bad-tempered
- captious
- choleric
- cross
- crotchety
- fretful
- grouchy
- irascible
- mean
- ornery
- out of sorts
- peevish
- peppery
- petulant
- quick-tempered
- short-tempered
- snappy
- thin-skinned
- waspish
- crabbed
- exasperated
- splenetic
- tricky
- jumpy
- testy
- precarious
- sensitive
- uptight
- volatile
- delicate
- ticklish
- risky
- dicey
- bad-tempered
- cantankerous
- captious
- choleric
- cranky
- cross
- grouchy
- grumpy
- hazardous
- irascible
- irritable
- mean
- ornery
- peevish
- petulant
- querulous
- quick-tempered
- surly
- temperamental
- thin-skinned
- unpredictable
- unsafe
- crabbed
- hypersensitive
- bundle of nerves
- oversensitive
- perturbable
- pettish
- splenetic
- wired up
- wound up
- cantankerous
- crabby
- cranky
- crotchety
- fiery
- grouchy
- hot-tempered
- ill-tempered
- impatient
- irascible
- irritable
- quick-tempered
- snappish
- snappy
- temperamental
- testy
- touchy
- volatile
- hot-blooded
- peckish
- short-fused
- annoyed
- bad-tempered
- cantankerous
- captious
- choleric
- crabbed
- cranky
- cross
- crotchety
- edgy
- fretful
- grouchy
- grumpy
- impatient
- irascible
- mean
- ornery
- out of sorts
- peevish
- peppery
- petulant
- quarrelsome
- quick-tempered
- short-tempered
- snappy
- sullen
- thin-skinned
- touchy
- uptight
- waspish
- exasperated
- splenetic
- abrupt
- agog
- antsy
- anxious
- ardent
- athirst
- avid
- breathless
- brusque
- choleric
- curt
- demanding
- eager
- edgy
- feverish
- fretful
- hasty
- headlong
- hot-tempered
- impetuous
- indignant
- intolerant
- irascible
- irritable
- itchy
- keen
- quick-tempered
- restless
- ripe
- snappy
- sudden
- testy
- thirsty
- vehement
- violent
- appetent
- chafing
- dying to
- having short fuse
- hot under collar
- on pins and needles
- straining
- unindulgent
- racing one's motor
- grouchy
- cantankerous
- ornery
- ugly
- irritable
- grumpy
- irascible
- choleric
- crabby
- cross
- crotchety
- disagreeable
- hot-tempered
- mean
- out of sorts
- perverse
- quick-tempered
- ratty
- snappish
- tetchy
- bad-humored
- bearish
- cussed
- got up on wrong side of bed
- ill-humored
- like a bear
- vinegary
- short
- peeved
- faultfinding
- annoyed
- cantankerous
- captious
- choleric
- churlish
- crabby
- cranky
- crotchety
- crusty
- disagreeable
- fractious
- fretful
- grouchy
- grumpy
- ill-tempered
- impatient
- irascible
- irritable
- jumpy
- peevish
- petulant
- put out
- querulous
- quick-tempered
- ratty
- snappy
- sullen
- surly
- testy
- touchy
- waspish
- tetchy
- vexed
- caviling
- ill-humored
- out of humor
- pettish
- splenetic
- restless
- fidgety
- demonstrative
- impulsive
- high-strung
- fiery
- hysterical
- skittish
- temperamental
- edgy
- emotional
- enthusiastic
- fierce
- hasty
- hot-tempered
- impatient
- impetuous
- inflammable
- intolerant
- irascible
- mercurial
- moody
- nervous
- neurotic
- passionate
- peevish
- quick
- quick-tempered
- rash
- reckless
- sensitive
- susceptible
- testy
- touchy
- uncontrolled
- uneasy
- vehement
- violent
- volatile
- agitable
- alarmable
- galvanic
- hot-headed
- overzealous
- short fused
- volcanic
- testy
- grumpy
- irascible
- cantankerous
- annoyed
- bad-tempered
- choleric
- crabby
- cross
- crotchety
- grouchy
- moody
- nasty
- quick-tempered
- sharp
- snappy
- sour
- spiteful
- surly
- touchy
- vicious
- bearish
- restless
- thirsty
- keen
- testy
- anxious
- eager
- irritable
- abrupt
- agog
- antsy
- ardent
- athirst
- avid
- breathless
- brusque
- choleric
- curt
- demanding
- edgy
- feverish
- fretful
- hasty
- headlong
- hot-tempered
- impetuous
- indignant
- intolerant
- irascible
- itchy
- quick-tempered
- ripe
- snappy
- sudden
- unforbearing
- vehement
- violent
- appetent
- chafing
- dying to
- having short fuse
- hot under collar
- on pins and needles
- straining
- unindulgent
- racing one's motor
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- happy
- unexcited
- unenthusiastic
- dull
- frigid
- cool
- cold
- moderate
- mild
- calm
- apathetic
- uncaring
- indifferent
- peaceful
- safe
- insensitive
- sure
- strong
- firm
- certain
- calm
- easy
- unflappable
- laid-back
- easygoing
- stable
- collected
- waiting
- easy-going
- controlled
- happy
- unenthusiastic
- willing
- tolerant
- patient
- laid-back
- forbearing
- enduring
- unconcerned
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How to use quicktempered in a sentence
Her eldest daughter, Sally, married a man named Thompson, who was as quicktempered as his mother-in-law.
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