It isn't easy to live with a choleric person.
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Choleric
//ˈkɒləɹɪk//
Synonyms for "choleric" (213 found)
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Adjective(68 words)
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4 entriesTranslations
26 translations across 13 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ὀξύθυμος adj (of a person: having a tendency to become angry easily — see also bad-tempered, irritable)
Bulgarian
2 entries- раздразнителен adj (of a person: having a tendency to become angry easily — see also bad-tempered, irritable)
- сприхав adj (of a person: having a tendency to become angry easily — see also bad-tempered, irritable)
Catalan
1 entries- colèric adj (of a person: having a tendency to become angry easily — see also bad-tempered, irritable)
Dutch
2 entries- cholerisch adj (of a person: having a tendency to become angry easily — see also bad-tempered, irritable)
- kwaad adj (of a person: having a tendency to become angry easily — see also bad-tempered, irritable)
Finnish
4 entries- kiukkuisa adj (of an act, feeling, words, etc.: arising from or showing anger)
- koleerinen adj (of or relating to choler)
- koleerinen adj (of a person: having an excess of choler; of a person’s complexion or temperament: dominated by choler)
- koleerinen adj (Of a planet or zodiac sign, season, etc.: affecting people having an excess of choler)
Galician
1 entries- colérico adj (of a person: having a tendency to become angry easily — see also bad-tempered, irritable)
Hungarian
4 entries- hirtelen haragú adj (of a person: having a tendency to become angry easily — see also bad-tempered, irritable)
- ingerlékeny adj (of a person: having a tendency to become angry easily — see also bad-tempered, irritable)
- kolerikus adj (of a person: having a tendency to become angry easily — see also bad-tempered, irritable)
- lobbanékony adj (of a person: having a tendency to become angry easily — see also bad-tempered, irritable)
Italian
1 entries- collerico adj (of a person: having a tendency to become angry easily — see also bad-tempered, irritable)
Māori
1 entries- whanewhane adj (of a person: having a tendency to become angry easily — see also bad-tempered, irritable)
Portuguese
1 entries- colérico adj (of a person: having a tendency to become angry easily — see also bad-tempered, irritable)
Spanish
1 entries- colérico adj (of a person: having a tendency to become angry easily — see also bad-tempered, irritable)
Swedish
1 entries- kolerisk adj (of a person: having a tendency to become angry easily — see also bad-tempered, irritable)
Ukrainian
1 entries- холерик adj (of a person: having a tendency to become angry easily — see also bad-tempered, irritable)
Sample sentences
32 total sentences available.
Alway remember, that in wynter fleume increaſeth by reaſon of rayne and moyſtneſſe of that ſeaſon, alſo the length of nyghtes and moche reſte. And therfore in that tyme cholerike perſons, are beſt at eaſe, ſemblably are yonge men, but to olde men wynter is ennemye.
Source: wiktionary
And let a Man bevvare, hovv he keepeth Company, vvith Cholerick and Quarelſome Perſons; for they vvill engage him into their ovvne Quarels.
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From a chollerick man vvithdravv a little, from him that ſaies nothing, for ever.
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