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    chol·er·ic
    /ˈkälərik/

    adjective

    • 1. bad-tempered or irritable: "he was a choleric, self-important little man"

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  2. The meaning of CHOLERIC is easily moved to often unreasonable or excessive anger : hot-tempered. How to use choleric in a sentence.

  3. 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.

  4. Choleric doesn’t just mean “angry”—you wouldn’t use it to describe someone who was angry in one particular situation. Instead, choleric is applied to the kind of people who have a short fuse and are just about always getting angry about something.

  5. Are you easy to tick off? Known to have a short fuse? Then, you could be described as choleric. Don't worry; it's not a disease related to cholera. Choleric just means you're testy and irritable.

  6. 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.

  7. 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. Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary.

  8. Definition of choleric adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

  9. 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.

  10. A choleric person gets angry very easily. You can also use choleric to describe a person who is very angry.

  11. Choleric Definition. kŏlə-rĭk, kə-lĕrĭk. Meanings. Synonyms. Sentences. Definition Source. Origin. Adjective. Filter. 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.