QUICK TEMPER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does quick temper mean? 

• QUICK TEMPER (noun)
  The noun QUICK TEMPER has 1 sense:

1. a feeling of resentful anger

  Familiarity information: QUICK TEMPER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• QUICK TEMPER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A feeling of resentful anger

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

irascibility; quick temper; short temper; spleen

Hypernyms ("quick temper" is a kind of...):

bad temper; ill temper (a persisting angry mood)

 Context examples 

Bessie had retained her quick temper as well as her light foot and good looks.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Remember it, and try with heart and soul to master this quick temper, before it brings you greater sorrow and regret than you have known today.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

But he said to me aside in a meek voice: I am well aware, Master Copperfield, that Miss Trotwood, though an excellent lady, has a quick temper (indeed I think I had the pleasure of knowing her, when I was a numble clerk, before you did, Master Copperfield), and it's only natural, I am sure, that it should be made quicker by present circumstances.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A quick temper, sharp tongue, and restless spirit were always getting her into scrapes, and her life was a series of ups and downs, which were both comic and pathetic.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

A quick temper.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)