Definition of Quick-tempered

1. Adjective. Quickly aroused to anger. "A hotheaded commander"

Exact synonyms: Choleric, Hot-tempered, Hotheaded, Irascible, Short-tempered
Similar to: Ill-natured
Derivative terms: Choler, Irascibility

Definition of Quick-tempered

1. Adjective. (usually said of a person, but sometimes of an animal) Easily or quickly angered or frustrated. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Quick-tempered

quiches lorraines
quiching
quick
quick-and-dirty
quick-change(a)
quick-draw
quick-eared
quick-fire
quick-freeze
quick-freezes
quick-freezing
quick-froze
quick-frozen
quick-sighted
quick-stop mutant
quick-tempered (current term)
quick-witted
quick-wittedly
quick-wittedness
quick and dirty
quick as a flash
quick bread
quick buck
quick cure resin
quick fix
quick light
quick lights
quick lime

Literary usage of Quick-tempered

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Feebly Inhibited: Nomadism, Or the Wandering Impulse, with Special by Charles Benedict Davenport (1915)
"III-6, quick-tempered; drank periodically; when on a spree had hallucinations and ... Ill, has sick headaches and motor restlessness; is quick-tempered, ..."

2. Some Great Leaders in the World Movement by Robert Elliott Speer (1911)
"His temper—the Lawrences were all naturally quick-tempered—was generally well under control; but when he felt, like Jonah, ' that he did well to be angry,' ..."

3. Suomalais-englantilainen sanakirja by Severi Alanne (1919)
"... quick to take offense, touchy, quick-tempered, captious; ~ luanne quick (1. lint 1. hasty) temper, fiery (l. passionate) disposition; ..."

4. Suomalais-englantilainen sanakirja by Severi Alanne (1919)
"... quick to take offense, touchy, quick-tempered, captious; ~ luonne quick (l. not 1. hasty) temper, fiery (1. passionate) disposition; ..."

5. Suomalais-englantilainen sanakirja by Severi Alanne (1919)
"... quick to take offense, touchy, quick-tempered, captious; ... quick-tempered, rash; hot (-headed), -lähetti express, courier (vars. sot. ..."

6. Pleasant Recollections of Characters and Works of Noble Men: With Old Scenes by John Burgess (1887)
"Many large' and small scholars attended his school, and but few ever were so viru- .lent and quick-tempered in their administration, yet so fully failed to ..."

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