quick-tempered

The word “quick-tempered” has 3 syllables: quick-tem-pered

It's pronounced as /ˌkwɪkˈtɛmpərd/


What is synonym and antonym for quick-tempered?

In the thesaurus, “quick-tempered” has 76 synonyms and 33 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for quick-tempered along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for quick-tempered

  • argumentative
  • bearish
  • bellicose
  • belligerent
  • bilious
  • cantankerous
  • choleric
  • combative
  • contentious
  • crabby
  • cranky
  • cross
  • cross-grained
  • crotchety
  • curmudgeonly
  • disagreeable
  • disputatious
  • dyspeptic
  • excitable
  • fiery
  • fractious
  • fretful
  • grouchy
  • grumpy
  • hot-blooded
  • hot-tempered
  • huffy
  • ill-humored
  • ill-natured
  • ill-tempered
  • impatient
  • impulsive
  • inflammable
  • irascible
  • irritable
  • off-color
  • off-colored
  • ornery
  • out of humor
  • out of sorts
  • passionate
  • peevish
  • peppery
  • perverse
  • pettish
  • petulant
  • pouty
  • prickly
  • pugnacious
  • quarrelsome
  • querulous
  • raspy
  • ratty
  • scrappy
  • sensitive
  • short
  • short-tempered
  • shrewish
  • snappish
  • snappy
  • snarky
  • snarly
  • snippety
  • snippy
  • splenetic
  • stuffy
  • sulky
  • sullen
  • surly
  • temperamental
  • testy
  • tetchy
  • thin-skinned
  • touchy
  • truculent
  • waspish

Antonyms for quick-tempered

  • affable
  • agreeable
  • amiable
  • calm
  • carefree
  • companionable
  • cool
  • cordial
  • easygoing
  • even-tempered
  • extraverted
  • extroverted
  • forbearing
  • friendly
  • genial
  • good-natured
  • good-tempered
  • gregarious
  • happy-go-lucky
  • laid-back
  • long-suffering
  • obliging
  • outgoing
  • patient
  • relaxed
  • sociable
  • stoic
  • stoical
  • sweet
  • tolerant
  • uncomplaining
  • understanding
  • well-disposed

Meanings of quick-tempered

  • adjective
    1. Easily or quickly angered or frustrated.

Example Sentences

  • Despite his usually calm demeanor, John could be surprisingly quick-tempered under stress.
  • The coach's quick-tempered outbursts often intimidated the players.
  • Living with a quick-tempered roommate can be quite challenging.
  • Her quick-tempered nature made it difficult for her to maintain long-term relationships.
  • The quick-tempered chef was known for his fiery arguments in the kitchen.

On this page you'll find 109 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to quick-tempered, such as: affable, agreeable, amiable, argumentative, bearish, bellicose, belligerent.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

mad

  • aberrant
  • absurd
  • acrid
  • acrimonious
  • acrimoniousness
  • acrimony
  • affront
  • aggravate
  • aggravated
  • aggravation
  • agitated
  • air rage
  • airheaded
  • amok
  • amuck
  • anger
  • angered
  • angriness
  • angry
  • animosity
  • annoy
  • annoyance
  • annoyed
  • antagonism
  • antagonistic
  • antagonize
  • antipathetic
  • antipathy
  • antisocial
  • ape
  • apoplectic
  • ardent
  • argumentative
  • around the bend
  • asinine
  • avid
  • ballistic
  • balmy
  • bananas
  • barmy
  • bats
  • batty
  • bearish
  • bedlam
  • belligerence
  • belligerent
  • bent out of shape
  • berserk
  • bile
  • bilious
  • biliousness
  • birdbrained
  • birse
  • bitter
  • bitterness
  • blowup
  • blue in the face
  • boiling
  • bonkers
  • boobish
  • brain-dead
  • brainless
  • brainsick
  • bristling
  • bristly
  • bubbleheaded
  • buffoonish
  • bughouse
  • burning
  • cantankerous
  • certifiable
  • chafe
  • cheesed off
  • choler
  • choleric
  • chowderheaded
  • chuckleheaded
  • churlish
  • clownish
  • clueless
  • cockeyed
  • cold
  • concentrated
  • contempt
  • contentious
  • contentiousness
  • contrariness
  • contrary
  • cool
  • crabby
  • crackbrained
  • cracked
  • crackers
  • crackpot
  • crankiness
  • cranky
  • crazed
  • crazy
  • cross
  • cuckoo
  • daffy
  • daft
  • dander
  • delirious
  • delirium
  • delusional
  • delusionary
  • demented
  • dense
  • depressed
  • deranged
  • devoted
  • dim
  • dim-witted
  • dippy
  • disagreeable
  • disapproving
  • disordered
  • disputatious
  • disputatiousness
  • distant
  • distracted
  • distraught
  • disturbed
  • doltish
  • dopey
  • dopy
  • dorky
  • dotty
  • dudgeon
  • dull
  • dumb
  • dunderheaded
  • dyspeptic
  • eccentric
  • embitter
  • embittered
  • embitterment
  • empoisonment
  • empty-headed
  • enamoured
  • enflame
  • enflamed
  • enmity
  • enrage
  • enraged
  • enthused
  • envenom
  • envy
  • exasperate
  • exasperated
  • exasperation
  • excessive
  • exorbitant
  • extravagant
  • extreme
  • fallacious
  • fanatical
  • farcical
  • fatuous
  • featherheaded
  • feebleminded
  • ferocious
  • feverish
  • fey
  • fierce
  • fit to be tied
  • fixated
  • flare
  • flare-up
  • foaming
  • fond
  • fool
  • foolhardy
  • foolish
  • frantic
  • frenetic
  • frenzied
  • fretful
  • frigid
  • fruity
  • fuming
  • furious
  • furor
  • fury
  • fussy
  • gaga
  • get
  • going crook
  • gormless
  • grouchy
  • grudge
  • grumpy
  • half-baked
  • half-witted
  • harebrained
  • haywire
  • heat
  • high-pressured
  • hooked
  • hopping
  • hopping mad
  • horn-mad
  • hostility
  • hot
  • hot under the collar
  • hot-headedness
  • huff
  • huffy
  • hysteric
  • hysterical
  • icy
  • idiotic
  • idiotical
  • ill-advised
  • ill-humored
  • ill-tempered
  • illogical
  • imbecile
  • imbecilic
  • immoderate
  • impassioned
  • impractical
  • imprudent
  • in a fume
  • in a huff
  • in a pet
  • incense
  • incensed
  • indignant
  • indignation
  • inept
  • infatuated
  • inflame
  • inflamed
  • inflammable
  • infuriate
  • infuriated
  • inimical
  • inordinate
  • insane
  • intense
  • intensive
  • invalid
  • irascibility
  • irascible
  • irascibleness
  • irate
  • irateness
  • ire
  • ireful
  • irrational
  • irritability
  • irritable
  • irritate
  • irritated
  • irritation
  • jaundice
  • jealousy
  • jerky
  • keen
  • knuckleheaded
  • kookie
  • kooky
  • lamebrain
  • lamebrained
  • laughable
  • lavish
  • livid
  • lividity
  • lividness
  • loco
  • looney
  • looney tunes
  • loony
  • loony tunes
  • loopy
  • ludicrous
  • lunatic
  • lunkheaded
  • madden
  • madness
  • malevolence
  • malevolent
  • malice
  • maniac
  • maniacal
  • mental
  • meshuga
  • meshugah
  • meshuggah
  • meshugge
  • miff
  • mindless
  • monomaniac
  • monomaniacal
  • mood
  • moonstruck
  • moronic
  • nettle
  • neurotic
  • non compos mentis
  • nonrational
  • nonsensical
  • notional
  • nuclear
  • nuts
  • nutty
  • oafish
  • obsessed
  • obsessive-compulsive
  • obtuse
  • odd
  • oddball
  • of unsound mind
  • off
  • offend
  • opaque
  • orneriness
  • ornery
  • out to lunch
  • outburst
  • outrage
  • outraged
  • overmuch
  • overweening
  • paranoiac
  • paranoic
  • paranoid
  • paranoidal
  • passion
  • passionate
  • peeve
  • peevish
  • perturbed
  • pet
  • petulant
  • pinheaded
  • pique
  • piqued
  • pixilated
  • pixillated
  • potty
  • preposterous
  • provoke
  • psycho
  • psychotic
  • pugnacious
  • pugnaciousness
  • pugnacity
  • put out
  • quarrelsome
  • quarrelsomeness
  • queer
  • querulous
  • querulousness
  • quick-tempered
  • rabid
  • rage
  • raging
  • rancor
  • rancorous
  • rankle
  • rankled
  • ranting
  • raving
  • reckless
  • resentful
  • resentment
  • ridiculous
  • rile
  • riled
  • riley
  • rise
  • risky
  • road rage
  • roil
  • roiled
  • rub the wrong way
  • ruffle
  • sappy
  • scatty
  • schizoid
  • schizophrenic
  • screwball
  • screwy
  • seeing red
  • seething
  • senseless
  • shirty
  • silly
  • simple
  • simpleminded
  • sizzling
  • slow
  • slow burn
  • slow-witted
  • smoldering
  • smouldering
  • snappish
  • sociopathic
  • soft
  • softheaded
  • sore
  • sorehead
  • soreheaded
  • spite
  • spiteful
  • spleen
  • steam up
  • steamed up
  • steaming
  • stormy
  • strange
  • stupid
  • sulky
  • surd
  • teched
  • teed off
  • temper
  • testy
  • tetched
  • thick
  • thickheaded
  • thoughtless
  • tick off
  • ticked
  • tomfool
  • touched
  • touchy
  • unbalanced
  • unconscionable
  • unconsidered
  • undue
  • unfriendly
  • unhinged
  • unintelligent
  • unpleasant
  • unreasonable
  • unreasoned
  • unreasoning
  • unsafe
  • unsound
  • unstable
  • unwise
  • vacuous
  • vehement
  • vengeful
  • vengefulness
  • venom
  • very upset
  • vex
  • vexation
  • vindictive
  • vindictiveness
  • violent
  • virulence
  • virulent
  • vitriol
  • vitriolic
  • wacko
  • wacky
  • warmth
  • weak
  • weak-minded
  • whacko
  • whacky
  • wigged-out
  • wild
  • witless
  • worked up
  • wrath
  • wrathful
  • wrathfulness
  • wroth
  • wud
  • zany
  • zealous

rabid

  • acrid
  • acrimonious
  • aggravated
  • aggressive
  • agitated
  • angered
  • angry
  • annoyed
  • antagonistic
  • antipathetic
  • antisocial
  • apoplectic
  • argumentative
  • assertive
  • ballistic
  • bang-bang
  • barbarous
  • bearish
  • bellicose
  • belligerent
  • bent out of shape
  • berserk
  • bigoted
  • bilious
  • bitten
  • bitter
  • blood-and-guts
  • blue in the face
  • boiling
  • bristling
  • bristly
  • brutal
  • burning
  • cantankerous
  • cataclysmal
  • cataclysmic
  • cheesed off
  • choleric
  • churlish
  • cold
  • combative
  • combustible
  • concentrated
  • contentious
  • contrary
  • convulsive
  • cool
  • corybantic
  • crabby
  • cranky
  • crazed
  • crazy
  • cross
  • cyclonic
  • delirious
  • demented
  • deranged
  • destructive
  • disagreeable
  • disapproving
  • disputatious
  • distant
  • dyspeptic
  • embittered
  • enflamed
  • enraged
  • enthusiastic
  • exasperated
  • excessive
  • exorbitant
  • explosive
  • extravagant
  • extreme
  • extremist
  • fanatic
  • fanatical
  • ferocious
  • fervent
  • feverish
  • fierce
  • fit to be tied
  • flipped
  • foaming
  • foaming at the mouth
  • frantic
  • freaked-out
  • frenetic
  • frenzied
  • fretful
  • frigid
  • fuming
  • furious
  • fussy
  • gladiatorial
  • going crook
  • grouchy
  • grumpy
  • hammer-and-tongs
  • high-pressured
  • hog-wild
  • hopping
  • hopping mad
  • horn-mad
  • hostile
  • hot
  • hot under the collar
  • huffy
  • icy
  • ill-humored
  • ill-tempered
  • immoderate
  • in a fume
  • in a huff
  • in a pet
  • incensed
  • indignant
  • inflamed
  • inflammable
  • infuriate
  • infuriated
  • inimical
  • inordinate
  • insane
  • intemperate
  • intense
  • intensive
  • intolerant
  • irascible
  • irate
  • ireful
  • irrational
  • irritable
  • keen
  • knock-down-and-drag-out
  • lavish
  • livid
  • lunatic
  • mad
  • mad-dog
  • malevolent
  • maniac
  • maniacal
  • narrow-minded
  • nutty
  • obsessed
  • ornery
  • outraged
  • overboard
  • overmuch
  • overweening
  • paroxysmal
  • passionate
  • peevish
  • perturbed
  • petulant
  • piqued
  • poisoned
  • pugnacious
  • put out
  • quarrelsome
  • querulous
  • quick-tempered
  • radical
  • raging
  • rancorous
  • rankled
  • ranting
  • raving
  • reactionary
  • resentful
  • revolutionary
  • revolutionist
  • riled
  • riley
  • roiled
  • rough
  • ruinous
  • savage
  • seething
  • shirty
  • sick
  • sizzling
  • smoking
  • smoldering
  • smouldering
  • snappish
  • sore
  • sorehead
  • soreheaded
  • spiteful
  • steamed up
  • steaming
  • stormy
  • subversive
  • sulky
  • teed off
  • tempestuous
  • testy
  • ticked
  • touchy
  • truculent
  • tumultuous
  • turbulent
  • ultra
  • ultraist
  • unconscionable
  • undue
  • unfriendly
  • unpleasant
  • vehement
  • vengeful
  • vicious
  • vindictive
  • violent
  • virulent
  • vitriolic
  • volatile
  • volcanic
  • wild
  • worked up
  • wrathful
  • wroth
  • zealous

galvanic

  • absorbing
  • active
  • agitable
  • alarmable
  • arresting
  • breathtaking
  • charged
  • compelling
  • demonstrative
  • dynamic
  • edgy
  • electric
  • electrifying
  • emotional
  • enchanting
  • energetic
  • engrossing
  • enterprising
  • enthralling
  • enthusiastic
  • exciting
  • exhilarating
  • exhilarative
  • fascinating
  • fidgety
  • fierce
  • fiery
  • galvanizing
  • gripping
  • hair-raising
  • hasty
  • heart-stopping
  • high-strung
  • high-voltage
  • hot-headed
  • hot-tempered
  • hysterical
  • impatient
  • impellent
  • impetuous
  • impulsive
  • inflammable
  • inspiring
  • interesting
  • intolerant
  • intoxicating
  • intriguing
  • irascible
  • kicky
  • kinetic
  • lively
  • lusty
  • mercurial
  • mind-bending
  • mind-blowing
  • mind-boggling
  • moody
  • moving
  • nervous
  • neurotic
  • overzealous
  • passionate
  • peevish
  • poignant
  • propulsive
  • provocative
  • quick
  • quick-tempered
  • rash
  • reckless
  • restless
  • rip-roaring
  • riveting
  • rousing
  • sensitive
  • short-fused
  • skittish
  • spellbinding
  • stimulating
  • stirring
  • susceptible
  • sweeping
  • tantalizing
  • temperamental
  • testy
  • thrilling
  • titillating
  • touching
  • touchy
  • uncontrolled
  • uneasy
  • urging
  • vehement
  • vigorous
  • violent
  • volatile
  • volcanic

querulous

  • antsy
  • bearish
  • bemoaning
  • cantankerous
  • captious
  • carping
  • censorious
  • choleric
  • complaining
  • crabby
  • cranky
  • critical
  • cross
  • crotchety
  • crying
  • deploring
  • discontented
  • disgruntled
  • displeased
  • dissatisfied
  • edgy
  • fault-finding
  • fidgety
  • fretful
  • fussy
  • grouchy
  • grousing
  • grumbling
  • grumbly
  • grumpy
  • huffy
  • irascible
  • irritable
  • lamenting
  • nervous
  • ornery
  • out of sorts
  • peevish
  • perverse
  • pettish
  • petulant
  • plaintive
  • quick-tempered
  • restive
  • restless
  • scrappy
  • short-tempered
  • snappish
  • snappy
  • snippy
  • sour
  • squirmy
  • testy
  • thin-skinned
  • touchy
  • twitchy
  • uneasy
  • uptight
  • wailing
  • waspish
  • waspy
  • whimpering
  • whining
  • whiny
  • wiggly
  • worrisome
  • wriggly

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