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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Choleric \Chol"er*ic\, adjective [L. cholericus, Gr. ?: cf. F. chol['e]rique.]
1. Abounding with, or producing choler, or bile. --Dryden.
2. Easily irritated; irascible; inclined to anger.
3. Angry; indicating anger; excited by anger. ''Choleric speech.'' --Sir W. Raleigh.
{Choleric temperament}, the bilious temperament.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
choleric
adjective
1: easily moved to anger; "men of the choleric type take to kicking and smashing"- H.G.Wells
2: quickly aroused to anger; "a hotheaded commander" [syn: {irascible}, {hotheaded}, {hot-tempered}, {quick-tempered}, {short}, {short-tempered}]
3: characterized by anger; "a choleric outburst"; "an irascible response" [syn: {irascible}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
64 Moby Thesaurus words for "choleric": acerb, acerbate, acerbic, acid, acidic, acidulent, acidulous, acrimonious, ambivert, angry, bilious, bitter, burning, captious, carping, caustic, cranky, cycloid, cyclothyme, cyclothymic, dyspeptic, ectomorph, embittered, endomorph, extrovert, faultfinding, fiery, heated, hot-tempered, indignant, introvert, irate, ireful, jaundiced, mad, melancholic, mesomorph, phlegmatic, quick-tempered, rancorous, rankled, ratty, resentful, resenting, sanguine, schizoid, schizothyme, sore, sour, sour-tempered, soured, splenetic, spunky, stewing, syntone, testy, tetchy, touchy, vinegarish, virulent, waxy, wrathful, wrathy, wroth
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