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What (who) is irascible - definition
irascible
[?'ras?b(?)l]
¦ adjective hot-tempered; irritable.
Derivatives
irascibility noun
irascibly adverb
Origin
ME: via Fr. from late L. irascibilis, from L. irasci 'grow angry', from ira 'anger'.
Irascible
·adj Prone to anger; easily provoked or inflamed to anger; choleric; irritable; as, an irascible man; an irascible temper or mood.
irascible
If you describe someone as irascible, you mean that they become angry very easily. (WRITTEN)
He had an irascible temper.
= fiery
ADJ
Examples of use of irascible
1. Canary Wharf‘s most irascible jowls are flapping.
2. Many people interpreted the silence of this irascible individual as a sign of maturity and wisdom.
3. Two New Yorkers (and irascible ladies of a certain age) whose liberal credentials were impeccable.
4. Philip Hart of Michigan, who had an illness that made him irascible and difficult to manage.
5. He is emotionally truculent, quick to anger, irascible, rather forbidding – a Victorian paterfamilias.