SHORT-TEMPERED Synonyms

• quickly aroused to anger

• restless or short-tempered under delay or opposition

• (usually followed by `to') full of eagerness

• (used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail

• easily irritated or annoyed

• characterized by intense emotion

• like or suggestive of fire

• passionate or quick-tempered

• annoyed and irritable

• annoyed and irritable

• easily irritated or annoyed

• abnormally sensitive to a stimulus

• capable of responding to stimuli

• United States tennis player who dominated women's tennis in the 1920s and 1930s (1905-1998)

• United States evangelist (1837-1899)

• showing a brooding ill humor

• subject to sharply varying moods

• easily irritated or annoyed

• easily irritated or annoyed

• quick to take offense

• difficult to handle; requiring great tact

• evaporating readily at normal temperatures and pressures

• a volatile substance; a substance that changes readily from solid or liquid to a vapor

• liable to lead to sudden change or violence

• marked by erratic changeableness in affections or attachments

• tending to vary often or widely

• quickly aroused to anger

• characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation

• easily moved to anger

• quickly aroused to anger

• characterized by anger

• quickly aroused to anger

• characterized by anger

• relating to or caused by temperament

• subject to sharply varying moods

• likely to perform unpredictably