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Prone to anger; easily provoked or inflamed to anger; choleric; irritable; as, an irascible man; an irascible temper or mood. -- I*ras"ci*ble*ness, n. -- I*ras"ci*bly, adv.

Easily irritated; irascible; inclined to anger.

od or evil. The schools reduce all the passions to these two heads, the concupiscible and irascible appetite. South.

Of an excitable or irritable temperament; irascible. Milton.

Excitable; irritable; irascible; easily provoked; as, an inflammable temper. Inflammable air, the old chemical name for hydrogen.

Irascible; choleric. "Iracund people." Carlyle.

The quality or state of being irascible; irritability of temper; irascibleness.

Irascible; passionate. [Obs.] Chaucer.

fferent passions; easily moved, excited or agitated; specifically, easily moved to anger; irascible; quick-tempered; as, a passionate nature. Homer's Achilles is haughty and passionate. Prior.

osed to quarrel; given to brawls and contention; easily irritated or provoked to contest; irascible; choleric.

A violent, irascible, or passionate person. [Colloq.] Grose.

Peevish; irritable; irascible; techy; apt to take fire. [Colloq.] It may be said of Dryden that he was at no time touchy about personal attacks. Saintsbury.

Quick to resent a trifling affront; characterized by snappishness; irritable; irascible; petulant; snappish. He was naturally a waspish and hot man. Bp. Hall. Much do I suffer, much, to keep in peace This jealous, waspish, wrong-head, rhyming race. Pope.