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Antonyms for short-tempered


Grammar : Adj
Spell : shawrt-tem-perd
Phonetic Transcription : ˈʃɔrtˈtɛm pərd



Definition of short-tempered

  • adj touchy
  • adj quick to anger
  • adj grouchy
Example sentences :
  • He was ever a short-tempered man, intolerant of irrelevancies.
  • Extract from : « Mistress Wilding » by Rafael Sabatini
  • He was a short-tempered man of no great manners, and he only grunted his response.
  • Extract from : « John Splendid » by Neil Munro
  • “I wish to apologize for being so short-tempered this morning,” he began.
  • Extract from : « The Cricket » by Marjorie Cooke
  • In the morning they will often be sullen and short-tempered.
  • Extract from : « Life in a Railway Factory » by Alfred Williams
  • I'll get blamed if you go, and he's short-tempered this morning.
  • Extract from : « Hobson's Choice » by Harold Brighouse
  • All of them are short-tempered, and the bars of their captivity not too strong.
  • Extract from : « From Sea to Sea » by Rudyard Kipling
  • The wind, it seemed, too, was expressing a little of the afternoon's short-tempered.
  • Extract from : « The Land of Look Behind » by Paul Cameron Brown
  • Please forgive me for being (a) short-tempered; (b) tedious.
  • Extract from : « The Whirligig of Time » by Wayland Wells Williams
  • To take offense at slight provocation was ridiculed as "short-tempered."
  • Extract from : « Bushido, the Soul of Japan » by Inazo Nitob
  • The examiner too could be impulsive, was indeed apt to be short-tempered.
  • Extract from : « The Roll-Call » by Arnold Bennett

Synonyms for short-tempered

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