Word Meanings - IRASCIBLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of IRASCIBLE)

• Angry
• Wrathful
• irate
• resentful
• ireful
• incensed
• furious
• irascible
• choleric
• moody
• nettled
• touchy
• sullen
• piqued
• excited
• provoked
• raging
• chafed
• hasty
• hot
• exasperated
• indignant
• passionate
• Bellicose
• Quarrelsome
• pugnacious
• belligerent
• contentious
• Choleric
• Hasty
• testy
• impetuous
• Fiery
• Hot
• vehement
• ardent
• fervent
• fierce
• enkindled
• glowing
• fervid
• impassioned
• irritable
• hotbrained
• Speedy
• rapid
• superficial
• hurried
• reckless
• headlong
• crude
• incomplete
• undeveloped
• immature
• swift
• precipitate
• fiery
• slight
• quick
• excitable
• rash
• cursory

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of IRASCIBLE)

• Regard
• respect
• notice
• observe

Related words: (words related to IRASCIBLE)

• RAGULED; RAGGULED
  Notched in regular diagonal breaks; -- said of a line, or a bearing having such an edge.
• PRECIPITATELY
  In a precipitate manner; headlong; hastily; rashly. Swift.
• SLIGHTNESS
  The quality or state of being slight; slenderness; feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence; indifference; disregard.
• 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.
• RAGLAN
  A loose overcoat with large sleeves; -- named from Lord Raglan, an English general.
• INCENSIVE
  Tending to excite or provoke; inflammatory. Barrow.
• RAPID
  1. Very swift or quick; moving with celerity; fast; as, a rapid stream; a rapid flight; a rapid motion. Ascend my chariot; guide the rapid wheels. Milton. 2. Advancing with haste or speed; speedy in progression; in quick sequence; as, rapid growth;
• 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.
• SLIGHTEN
  To slight. B. Jonson.
• 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.
• RAPIDNESS
  Quality of being rapid; rapidity.
• 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,
• SLIGHTINGLY
  In a slighting manner.
• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• 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.
• ENQUICKEN
  To quicken; to make alive. Dr. H. More.
• CORAL-RAG
  See CORALLIAN
• INTERAGENT
  An intermediate agent.
• VORAGINOUS
  Pertaining to a gulf; full of gulfs; hence, devouring. Mallet.
• DISRESPECTABILITY
  Want of respectability. Thackeray.
• 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.