quick temper

1. 1.

   a feeling of resentful anger

   Synonymsirascibilityshort temperspleen

   Broaderbad temper

Questions about quick temper

What does quick temper mean?

quick temper means "a feeling of resentful anger".

What is another word for quick temper?

Close synonyms include irascibility, short temper, spleen. 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 quick temper a common word?

quick temper 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.