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- DictionaryChol·er·ic/ˈkälərik/
adjective
- 1. bad-tempered or irritable: "he was a choleric, self-important little man"
The meaning of CHOLERIC is easily moved to often unreasonable or excessive anger : hot-tempered. How to use choleric in a sentence.
Choleric definition: extremely irritable or easily angered; irascible. See examples of CHOLERIC used in a sentence.
very angry or easily annoyed. Synonyms. irascible formal. short-tempered. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Angry and displeased. acridly. acrimoniously. aggrieved. amused. fed up to the back teeth idiom. fired up. fit to be tied idiom. fractiously. not be a happy camper idiom. outraged. peeved. piqued. pissed off. venomous. warpath.
very angry or easily annoyed. Synonyms. irascible formal. short-tempered. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Angry and displeased. acridly. acrimoniously. aggrieved. amused. fed up to the back teeth idiom. fired up. fit to be tied idiom. fractiously. not be a happy camper idiom. outraged. peeved. piqued. pissed off. venomous. warpath.
If you were quick to anger, you were thought to have too much choler in your system. You were called choleric. W. C. Fields, Richard Nixon, and Ebenezer Scrooge are just a few people famous for being choleric, easy to tick off.
1. extremely irritable or easily angered; irascible: a choleric disposition. 2. Obs. a. bilious. b. causing biliousness. [1300–50; Middle English < Medieval Latin colericus bilious, Latin cholericus < Greek cholerikós. See cholera, -ic] chol′er•i•cal•ly, chol′er•ic•ly, adv.
adjective. Easily angered; bad-tempered. American Heritage. Having choler as the dominant humor in terms of medieval physiology. American Heritage. Of or having choler, or bile. Webster's New World. Having or showing a quick temper or irascible nature. Webster's New World.
Definition of choleric adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
choleric. (kɒlərɪk ) adjective. A choleric person gets angry very easily. You can also use choleric to describe a person who is very angry. [formal] ...his choleric disposition. He was affable at one moment, choleric the next. Synonyms: bad-tempered, cross, angry, irritable More Synonyms of choleric.
Choleric definition: extremely irritable or easily angered; irascible. See examples of CHOLERIC used in a sentence.
