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Definition of Irascible
1. Adjective. Quickly aroused to anger. "A hotheaded commander"
Similar to: Ill-natured
Derivative terms: Choler, Irascibility
2. Adjective. Characterized by anger. "An irascible response"
Definition of Irascible
1. a. Prone to anger; easily provoked or inflamed to anger; choleric; irritable; as, an irascible man; an irascible temper or mood.
Definition of Irascible
1. Adjective. Easily provoked to outbursts of anger; irritable. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Irascible
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Irascible
Literary usage of Irascible
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Aquinas Ethicus: Or, The Moral Teaching of St. Thomas. A Translation of the by Thomas, Joseph Rickaby (1896)
"Are the irascible and concupiscible faculties the subject of virtue ? R.
The irascible and concupiscible faculties may be considered in two ways: in one way ..."
2. Aquinas Ethicus, Or, The Moral Teaching of St. Thomas: Or, The Moral by Thomas, Joseph Rickaby (1896)
"Is the irascible faculty the subject in which pride resides ? R. To find the
subject of any ... Hence pride must belong somehow to the irascible faculty. ..."
3. A History of the Ancient Working People: From the Earliest Known Period to by Cyrenus Osborne Ward (1889)
"In introducing this mighty conflict of Spartacus—the greatest and last of all
the ancient struggles coming into our categories of the " irascible " against ..."
4. Mental Science: A Compendium of Psychology, and the History of Philosophy by Alexander Bain (1870)
"The fact is known to occur under certain modes of excitement, and possibly,
therefore, in the irascible excitement. We have already noticed the influence of ..."
5. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1861)
"George Anderson, a clergyman of the Church of Scotland : a man of bold spirit
and irascible temperament, and of considerable learning and vigour of mind. ..."
6. British Synonymy: Or, An Attempt at Regulating the Choice of Words in by Hester Lynch Piozzi (1794)
"... endure to have their neighbours give them a character for being PASSIONATE,
when in my acceptation of the word they are nothing lefs. An Irascible ..."
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