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Short-tempered synonyms
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touchy
Easily offended; oversensitive; irritable
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  1. Easily offended; oversensitive; irritable
  2. Tending to take offense with slight cause; oversensitive.
  3. Requiring special tact or skill in handling; delicate:
gruff
Hoarse; harsh:
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  1. Hoarse; harsh:
  2. Having a rough, surly, and harsh demeanor and nature.
  3. Harsh and throaty; hoarse
harsh
Unpleasant, uncomfortable, or hostile to survival:
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  1. Unpleasant, uncomfortable, or hostile to survival:
  2. Unpleasantly coarse and rough to the touch:
  3. Severe, cruel, or exacting:
Find another word for short-tempered. In this page you can discover 4 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for short-tempered, like: touchy, gruff, harsh and irritable.

Sentence Examples

  • It's nice to see that for change out of the short-tempered chef isn't it?

  • Keep in mind that "negative" is often in the eye of the beholder; it is true that Aries is often short-tempered, impulsive and even a bit selfish.

  • No one wants to spend time with a grouch and the grouch in question is basing their opinions on their short-tempered observations, not a positive combination.

  • Normally patient, taciturn ox can sometimes turn eccentric and short-tempered.

  • There will be a tendency for emotional flare ups, especially anger or short-tempered spurts, but just as quickly as you experience an outburst, the emotion recedes.

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