My brother Tom is an irascible man.
Source: tatoeba (9671547)
Irascible
//ɪˈɹæs.ɪ.bəl//
Synonyms for "irascible" (160 found)
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Closest matches (32)
Adjective(11 words)
Adjective(1 words)
Strong matches (48)
Related words (80)
Adjective(35 words)
Adjective(2 words)
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Synonyms
3 entriesRelated terms
2 entriesderived
4 entriesrelated to
5 entriessimilar
5 entriesTranslations
74 translations across 33 languages.
Ancient Greek
3 entries- ἀκράχολος adj (prone to anger)
- ὀξύθυμος adj (prone to anger)
- ὀργίλος adj (prone to anger)
Bulgarian
2 entries- избухлив adj (prone to anger)
- раздразнителен adj (prone to anger)
Catalan
2 entries- irascible adj (prone to anger)
- rabiüt adj (prone to anger)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 急躁 adj (prone to anger)
- 暴躁 adj (prone to anger)
Crimean Tatar
1 entries- eserli adj (prone to anger)
Danish
1 entries- opfarende adj (prone to anger)
Dutch
3 entries- humeurig adj (prone to anger)
- opvliegend adj (prone to anger)
- prikkelbaar adj (prone to anger)
Esperanto
2 entries- incitiĝema adj (prone to anger)
- kolerema adj (prone to anger)
Estonian
1 entries- ärrituv adj (prone to anger)
Finnish
3 entries- äkeä adj (prone to anger)
- äreä adj (prone to anger)
- ärhäkkä adj (prone to anger)
French
1 entries- irascible adj (prone to anger)
Georgian
2 entries- ბრაზიანი adj (prone to anger)
- გაღიზიანებადი adj (prone to anger)
German
2 entries- aufbrausend adj (prone to anger)
- jähzornig adj (prone to anger)
Greek
2 entries- ευέξαπτος adj (prone to anger)
- ευερέθιστος adj (prone to anger)
Irish
2 entries- colgach adj (prone to anger)
- tobann adj (prone to anger)
Italian
1 entries- irascibile adj (prone to anger)
Latin
2 entries- īrācundus adj (prone to anger)
- īrāscibilis adj (prone to anger)
Lower Sorbian
1 entries- sćakły adj (prone to anger)
Māori
3 entries- kiriwetiweti adj (prone to anger)
- whanewhane adj (prone to anger)
- āritarita adj (prone to anger)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- bråsint adj (prone to anger)
- oppfarende adj (prone to anger)
Norwegian Nynorsk
3 entries- bråsinna adj (prone to anger)
- bråsint adj (prone to anger)
- oppfarande adj (prone to anger)
Occitan
3 entries- irascible adj (prone to anger)
- irós adj (prone to anger)
- tissós adj (prone to anger)
Old Church Slavonic
1 entries- ꙗръ adj (prone to anger)
Polish
3 entries- drażliwy adj (prone to anger)
- gniewny adj (prone to anger)
- wybuchowy adj (prone to anger)
Portuguese
2 entries- irascível adj (prone to anger)
- irritável adj (prone to anger)
Romanian
1 entries- irascibil adj (prone to anger)
Russian
1 entries- вспыльчивый adj (prone to anger)
Slovak
1 entries- prchký adj (prone to anger)
Spanish
4 entries- colérico adj (prone to anger)
- iracundo adj (prone to anger)
- irascible adj (prone to anger)
- mañoso adj (prone to anger)
Swedish
3 entries- hetlevrad adj (prone to anger)
- hetsig adj (prone to anger)
- lättretlig adj (prone to anger)
Turkish
4 entries- aksi adj (prone to anger)
- asabi adj (prone to anger)
- atarlı adj (prone to anger)
- huysuz adj (prone to anger)
Ukrainian
2 entries- дратівливий adj (prone to anger)
- запальний adj (prone to anger)
Welsh
4 entries- blin adj (prone to anger)
- gwyllt adj (prone to anger)
- pigog adj (prone to anger)
- piwis adj (prone to anger)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
He's very irascible and often gets set off even by the smallest trifle; still, he tends to forgive, doesn't hold a grudge and isn't vengeful at all.
Source: tatoeba (9671754)
He has an impetuous and irascible personality.
Source: tatoeba (9671782)
He has an impetuous and irascible character.
Source: tatoeba (9671784)
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