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quick-tempered

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quick-tem·pered (kwktmprd)
adj.
Easily aroused to anger.
quick-tempered
adj
readily roused to anger; irascible
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Adj.1.quick-tempered - quickly aroused to anger; "a hotheaded commander"
hot-tempered, hotheaded, irascible, short-tempered, choleric
ill-natured - having an irritable and unpleasant disposition
quick-tempered
adjective hot-tempered, fiery, irritable, impatient, impulsive, excitable, petulant, irascible, cantankerous, tetchy, ratty (Brit. & N.Z. informal), testy, quarrelsome, waspish, choleric, splenetic, shrewish They are wonderful people, but very quick-tempered.
cool, placid, dispassionate, phlegmatic, tolerant, slow to anger
Translations
quick-tempered [ˈkwɪkˈtempəd] ADJ → de genio vivo, irascible
quick-tempered [ˌkwɪkˈtɛmpəd] adj → che si arrabbia facilmente
quick-tempered [ˌkwɪkˈtɛmpəd] adj → che si arrabbia facilmente


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Proud, hot-headed, quick-tempered, he was often in trouble, more than once in prison.
English Literature For Boys And Girls by Marshall, H.E. View in context
"You are quick-tempered," she said, when she saw the gesture.
Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
The firmness of her devotion to him was indeed almost pitiful; quick-tempered as she naturally was, nothing that he could say made her unseemly; she sought not her own; was not provoked; thought no evil of his treatment of her.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman by Hardy, Thomas View in context
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