Word Meanings - CHOLERIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Abounding with, or producing choler, or bile. Dryden. 2. Easily irritated; irascible; inclined to anger. 3. Angry; indicating anger; excited by anger. "Choleric speech." Sir W. Raleigh. Choleric temperament, the bilious temperament.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CHOLERIC)

• Angry
• Wrathful
• irate
• resentful
• ireful
• incensed
• furious
• irascible
• choleric
• moody
• nettled
• touchy
• sullen
• piqued
• excited
• provoked
• raging
• chafed
• hasty
• hot
• exasperated
• indignant
• passionate
• Fiery
• Hot
• vehement
• ardent
• fervent
• fierce
• enkindled
• glowing
• fervid
• impassioned
• irritable
• hotbrained
• Quarrelsome
• Choleric
• petulant
• litigious
• pugnacious
• brawling
• fiery
• hot-tempered
• contentious
• Resentful
• malicious
• vindictive
• intolerant
• insubmissive

Related words: (words related to CHOLERIC)

• RAGULED; RAGGULED
  Notched in regular diagonal breaks; -- said of a line, or a bearing having such an edge.
• NETTLER
  One who nettles. Milton.
• RAGE
  1. Violent excitement; eager passion; extreme vehemence of desire, emotion, or suffering, mastering the will. "In great rage of pain." Bacon. He appeased the rage of hunger with some scraps of broken meat. Macaulay. Convulsed with a rage of grief.
• EXCITO-MOTION
  Motion excited by reflex nerves. See Excito-motory.
• ARDENT
  1. Hot or burning; causing a sensation of burning; fiery; as, ardent spirits, that is, distilled liquors; an ardent fever. 2. Having the appearance or quality of fire; fierce; glowing; shining; as, ardent eyes. Dryden. 3. Warm, applied
• GLOWLAMP
  An aphlogistic lamp. See Aphlogistic.
• INCENSIVE
  Tending to excite or provoke; inflammatory. Barrow.
• RAGLAN
  A loose overcoat with large sleeves; -- named from Lord Raglan, an English general.
• VEHEMENTLY
  In a vehement manner.
• EXCITABLE
  Capable of being excited, or roused into action; susceptible of excitement; easily stirred up, or stimulated.
• CHAFFERY
  Traffic; bargaining. Spenser.
• EXCITING
  Calling or rousing into action; producing excitement; as, exciting events; an exciting story. -- Ex*cit"ing*ly, adv. Exciting causes , those which immediately produce disease, or those which excite the action of predisposing causes.
• RAGAMUFFIN
  The long-tailed titmouse. (more info) 1. A paltry or disreputable fellow; a mean which. Dryden. 2. A person who wears ragged clothing.
• IRRITABLE
  Endowed with irritability; susceptible of irritation; capable of being excited to action by the application of certain stimuli. (more info) 1. Capable of being irriated. 2. Very susceptible of anger or passion; easily inflamed or exasperated; as,
• EXCITATION
  The act of producing excitement ; also, the excitement produced. (more info) 1. The act of exciting or putting in motion; the act of rousing up or awakening. Bacon.
• EXCITABILITY
  The property manifested by living organisms, and the elements and tissues of which they are constituted, of responding to the action of stimulants; irritability; as, nervous excitability. (more info) 1. The quality of being readily excited;
• CONTENTIOUS
  Contested; litigated; litigious; having power to decide controversy. Contentious jurisdiction , jurisdiction over matters in controversy between parties, in contradistinction to voluntary jurisdiction, or that exercised upon matters not opposed
• IREFULNESS
  Wrathfulness. Wyclif.
• RAGHUVANSA
  A celebrated Sanskrit poem having for its subject the Raghu dynasty.
• GLOWBARD
  The glowworm.
• TETRAGYNIA
  A Linnæan order of plants having four styles.
• PHRAGMOCONE
  The thin chambered shell attached to the anterior end of a belemnite.
• MOORAGE
  A place for mooring.
• OUTRAGEOUS
  Of the nature of an outrage; exceeding the limits of right, reason, or decency; involving or doing an outrage; furious; violent; atrocious. "Outrageous weeping." Chaucer. "The most outrageous villainies." Sir P. Sidney. "The vile, outrageous
• COMPASSIONATELY
  In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon.
• CORAL-RAG
  See CORALLIAN
• INTERAGENT
  An intermediate agent.
• VORAGINOUS
  Pertaining to a gulf; full of gulfs; hence, devouring. Mallet.
• ACCOURAGE
  To encourage.
• ALTARAGE
  1. The offerings made upon the altar, or to a church. 2. The profit which accrues to the priest, by reason of the altar, from the small tithes. Shipley.
• PARAGRAPH
  1. Originally, a marginal mark or note, set in the margin to call attention to something in the text, e. g., a change of subject; now, the character Note: This character is merely a modification of a capital P (the initial of the word paragraph),
• DRAG LINE; DRAG ROPE
  A guide rope.
• DISCOURAGING
  Causing or indicating discouragement. -- Dis*cour"a*ging*ly, adv.
• PENDRAGON
  A chief leader or a king; a head; a dictator; -- a title assumed by the ancient British chiefs when called to lead other chiefs. The dread Pendragon, Britain's king of kings. Tennyson.