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QUICK-TEMPERED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does quick-tempered mean?
• QUICK-TEMPERED (adjective)
The adjective QUICK-TEMPERED has 1 sense:
1. quickly aroused to anger
Familiarity information: QUICK-TEMPERED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Quickly aroused to anger
Synonyms:
choleric; hot-tempered; hotheaded; irascible; quick-tempered; short-tempered
Context example:
a hotheaded commander
Similar:
ill-natured (having an irritable and unpleasant disposition)
Context examples
He was a singular man, fierce and quick-tempered, very foul-mouthed when he was angry, and of a most retiring disposition.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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