Roget's Thesaurus

#901. Irascibility

Nouns

irascibility, irascibleness, temper; crossness etc. adj.; susceptibility, procacity, petulance, irritability, tartness, acerbity, protervity; pugnacity etc. (contentiousness) 720. excitability etc. 825; bad temper, fiery temper, crooked temper, irritable etc. adj.. temper; genus irritabile [Lat.], hot blood. ill humor etc. (sullenness) 901a; asperity etc.; churlishness etc. (discourtesy) 895. huff etc. (resentment) 900; a word and a blow. Sir Fretful Plagiary; brabbler, Tartar; shrew, vixen, virago, termagant, dragon, scold, Xantippe; porcupine; spitfire; fire eater etc. (blusterer) 887; fury etc. (violent person) 173.

Verbs

be irascible etc. adj.; have a temper etc. n., have a devil in one; fire up etc. (be angry) 900.

Adjectives

irascible; bad-tempered, ill-tempered; irritable, susceptible; excitable etc. 825; thin-skinned etc. (sensitive) 822; fretful, fidgety; on the fret. hasty, overhasty, quick, warm, hot, testy, touchy, techy, tetchy; like touchwood, like tinder; huffy, pettish, petulant; waspish, snappish, peppery, fiery, passionate, choleric, shrewish, sudden and quick in quarrel [As You Like It]. querulous, captious, moodish; quarrelsome, contentious, disputatious; pugnacious etc. (bellicose) 720; cantankerous, exceptious; restiff etc. (perverse) 901a; churlish etc. (discourteous) 895. cross, cross as crabs, cross as two sticks, cross as a cat, cross as a dog, cross as the tongs; fractious, peevish, acariatre. in a bad temper; sulky etc. 901a; angry etc. 900. resentful, resentive; vindictive etc. 919.

Interjections

pish!

Phrases

a vieux comptes nouvelles disputes [Fr.]; quamvis tegatur proditur vultu furor [Lat.] [Seneca]; vino tortus et ira [Lat.] [Horace].

#901a. Sullenness

Nouns

sullenness etc. adj.; morosity, spleen; churlishness etc. (discourtesy) 895; irascibility etc. 901. moodiness etc. adj.; perversity; obstinacy etc. 606; torvity, spinosity; crabbedness etc. adj.. ill temper, bad temper, ill humor, bad humor; sulks, dudgeon, mumps, dumps, doldrums, fit of the sulks, bouderie [Fr.], black looks, scowl; grouch; huff etc. (resentment) 900.

Verbs

be sullen etc. adj.; sulk; frown, scowl, lower, glower, gloam, pout, have a hangdog look, glout.

Adjectives

sullen, sulky; ill-tempered, ill-humored, ill-affected, ill-disposed; grouty [U.S.]; in an ill temper, in a bad temper, in a shocking temper, in an ill humor, in a bad humor, in a shocking humor; out of temper, out of humor; knaggy, torvous, crusty, crabbed; sour, sour as a crab; surly etc. (discourteous) 895. moody; spleenish, spleenly; splenetic, cankered. cross, crossgrained; perverse, wayward, humorsome; restiff, restive; cantankerous, intractable, exceptious, sinistrous, deaf to reason, unaccommodating, rusty, froward; cussed [U.S.]. dogged etc. (stubborn) 606. grumpy, glum, grim, grum, morose, frumpish; in the sulks etc. n.; out of sorts; scowling, glowering, growling; grouchy. peevish etc. (irascible) 901.