quick-tempered

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quick-tem·pered

(kwĭk′tĕm′pərd)

adj.

Easily aroused to anger.

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quick-tempered

adj

readily roused to anger; irascible

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quick′-tem′pered

adj.

easily angered; touchy.

[1820–30]

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Adj.

quick-tempered - quickly aroused to anger; "a hotheaded commander"

hotheaded, hot-tempered, 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

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quick-tempered

adjective

Easily annoyed:

choleric, irascible, peppery, testy, tetchy, touchy.

Translations

quick-tempered

[ˈkwɪkˈtempəd] ADJ → de genio vivo, irascible

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quick-tempered

[ˌkwɪkˈtɛmpəd] adj → che si arrabbia facilmente

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quick

(kwik) adjective

1. done, said, finished etc in a short time. a quick trip into town.

2. moving, or able to move, with speed. He's a very quick walker; I made a grab at the dog, but it was too quick for me.

3. doing something, able to do something, or done, without delay; prompt; lively. He is always quick to help; a quick answer; He's very quick at arithmetic.

adverb

quickly. quick-frozen food.

ˈquickly adverb

ˈquicken verb

to make or become quicker. He quickened his pace.

ˈquickness noun

ˈquicklime noun

lime which has not been mixed with water.

ˈquicksands noun plural

(an area of) loose, wet sand that sucks in anyone or anything that stands on it.

ˈquicksilver noun

mercury.

ˌquick-ˈtempered adjective

easily made angry.

ˌquick-ˈwitted adjective

thinking very quickly. a quick-witted policeman.

ˌquick-ˈwittedly adverb

ˌquick-ˈwittedness noun

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Proud, hot-headed, quick-tempered, he was often in trouble, more than once in prison.

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"You are quick-tempered," she said, when she saw the gesture.

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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.

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