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Irascible

//ɪˈɹæs.ɪ.bəl// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Easily provoked to outbursts of anger; irritable.

    "The divine Plato, whose doctrines are not sufficiently attended to by philosophers of the present age, allows to every man three souls—one, immortal and rational, seated in the brain, that it may overlook and regulate the body—a second consisting of the surly and irascible passions, which like belligerent powers lie encamped around the heart[…]"

  2. 2
    Relating to the irascible passions.

    "The irascible and concupiscible appetites are distinguished by different aspects of their objects. The object of the concupiscible faculty "is sensible good or evil, simply apprehended as such" while good and evil considered as "arduous or difficult … is the object of the irascible faculty.""

Adjective
  1. 1
    characterized by anger wordnet
  2. 2
    quickly aroused to anger wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English, from Old French irascible, from Late Latin īrāscibilis, from Latin īrāscī (“to be angry, enraged”) + -bilis.

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