irascible
5
8.6
- adjective
- /ɪˈræsəbl/
- Formal
:
irascible
- We have occasional intruders from the woods: snakes, groundhogs, a few squirrels, and a large irascible raccoon.
And orgilos is the name of somebody who is irascible, somebody who's prone to anger.
- And orgilos is the name of somebody who is irascible, somebody who's prone to anger.
- So the very first one has to do with the irascible or contending appetite.
- Even if there may be irascible or somewhat unlikable that they we still can have empathy for that character.
- Even if there may be irascible or somewhat unlikeable that they we still can have empathy for that character.
Examples
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Pa, too, was made of oak, hard and irascible.
Fiction book (1992) -
On the other hand, she had evidently become rather irascible in her old age and frequently chastised the king.
Academic text (2010) -
Well, Tim is known as an irascible, sour, negative kind of guy in my department.
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Is she still surly and irascible?
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I was, after all, the only child of an irascible accountant and a housewife who quoted the Bible a little too frequently.
Fiction book (1999) -
Well, you know what newspapermen are like: crusty, bitter, irascible.
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Nothing worthwhile came from him anymore; he couldn't concentrate, and he was always irascible and unfocused.
Fiction book (1997) -
For this is the famously irascible Peter Stuyvesant, the director-general of New Amsterdam from 1647 to 1664.
Blog text (27) -
Local opinion holds me as surly, aging, irascible, crusty—in short, a curmudgeon—and I foster the illusion.
Fiction book (1994) -
The irascible teacher often yelled at students for minor mistakes.
Synonyms
64
3.5
Full of strong, often angry feelings
32
3.7
Quick to become annoyed or angry
22
8.5
Being bad-tempered and stubborn, often hard to deal with
9
8.6
Gets angry easily and often argues with people
7
6.2
Quick to become angry and act without thinking
5
5.1
Quick to become angry
4
4.2
Quick to get angry or easily annoyed
4
5.7
Easily annoyed and quick to get angry
3
3.5
Quick to get angry or annoyed
1
6.0
To become angry quickly and easily
1
9.6
Quick to become angry and often bad-tempered
1
9.1
Being easily annoyed and quick to feel offended
1
9.7
Feeling annoyed and in a bad mood
1
9.9
Quick to become angry or take offense
Becoming easily annoyed and acting in a bad-tempered way
Antonyms
How Easily Angered
4
4.2
- Formal
5
8.6
32
3.7
735
1.0
15
5.0
72
3.2
Surface Forms
Morphology
irascible = irasc + ible
The suffix '-ible' is recognizable, but the root 'irasc-' is not a productive or familiar English base, so learners cannot reliably derive the meaning from the parts.
Etymology
The word irascible comes from the old Latin root ira meaning 'anger', the same root you see in English words like ire and irate. That's why irascible describes someone who is 'easily made angry'.