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Choleric   /kˈɑlərɪk/   Listen
Choleric

adjective
1.
Easily moved to anger.
2.
Quickly aroused to anger.  Synonyms: hot-tempered, hotheaded, irascible, quick-tempered, short-tempered.
3.
Characterized by anger.  Synonym: irascible.  "An irascible response"






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"Choleric" Quotes from Famous Books



... staying for some weeks at Howard's Hotel in Jerusalem (Iskender Awwad, the dragoman, had transformed himself into the Chevalier Alexander Howard, a worthy, if choleric, gentleman, and a good friend of mine), and I rode out every day upon a decent pony, which I had discovered in the stables at the back of the hotel. One afternoon a nephew of the stable-owner, who was something of a blood, proposed that we should ride together out towards Bethlehem. ...
— Oriental Encounters - Palestine and Syria, 1894-6 • Marmaduke Pickthall

... the rowels into his horse and was off. An earnest, choleric man with his heart in his work, for which I liked him, even ...
— The Yeoman Adventurer • George W. Gough

... As a rule they are by no means friendly or even humane, these fays of Brittany, and if we find beneficent elves within the green forests of the duchy we may feel certain that they are French immigrants, and therefore more polished than the choleric ...
— Legends & Romances of Brittany • Lewis Spence

... did not bite me, their company would be more pleasant to me than that of men, who are choleric and intolerable. But I abide by what I have said, that, if my husband were in a like danger, I should ...
— The Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol. V. (of V.) • Margaret, Queen Of Navarre

... division of temperaments into phlegmatic or lymphatic, sanguine, choleric, and nervous or melancholy, is a fairly good foundation for preliminary observation, especially as each of the four subdivides itself easily into two types—the hard and soft—reforms itself easily into some cross-divisions, and refuses to ...
— The Education of Catholic Girls • Janet Erskine Stuart


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