Irascible
Irascible adjective - Easily irritated or annoyed.
Usage example: forced to endure a memorably irascible boss on her first job after college
Sensitive and irascible are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Sensitive" instead an adjective "Irascible".
Nearby Word: irascibility
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- emotional and irascible
- emotional and sensitive
- irritable and irascible
- irritable and sensitive
- nervous and irascible
- nervous and sensitive
- touchy and irascible
- touchy and sensitive
- quick and irascible
- quick and sensitive
- excitable and irascible
- excitable and sensitive
- volatile and irascible
- volatile and sensitive
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