quick-tempered

1. 1.

   quickly aroused to anger

   “a hotheaded commander”

   Synonymscholericirasciblehotheadedhot-temperedshort-tempered

   Similarill-natured

Questions about quick-tempered

What does quick-tempered mean?

quick-tempered means "quickly aroused to anger".

How many syllables are in quick-tempered?

quick-tempered has 4 syllables: quick--tem-pe-red. The stress falls on "tem".

What is another word for quick-tempered?

Close synonyms include choleric, irascible, hotheaded, hot-tempered, short-tempered. 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-tempered a common word?

quick-tempered 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.