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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 angerplay

  Familiarity information: QUICK-TEMPERED used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


QUICK-TEMPERED (adjective)


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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