choler

Other forms of choler

plural

cholers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about choler

What does choler mean?

choler means "an irritable petulant feeling". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in choler?

choler has 2 syllables: cho-ler. The stress falls on "cho".

What is another word for choler?

Close synonyms include irritability, crossness, fretfulness, fussiness, peevishness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is choler a common word?

choler is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.