choleric
Quick to anger
Choleric describes someone easily angered or quick-tempered.
The word comes from the old medical theory of four humors, where excess yellow bile (choler) supposedly caused irritability.
Today it simply means irascible or prone to outbursts: a choleric boss who berated employees over minor mistakes, His choleric temperament made negotiations difficult.
Liver-made digestive fluid
- yellow bileHumor causing irritability
- humorAmusing quality
- sanguineCheerfully optimistic temperament
- melancholicInclined toward reflective sorrow
phlegmatic · Hippocrates · Galen · temperament · constitution · complexion · liver · gallbladder
Prone to outbursts
- hot-temperedProne to quick anger
- short-temperedProne to sudden anger
- quick-temperedProne to sudden anger
- fieryIntensely hot or passionate
volatile · explosive · combustible · mercurial · hotheaded · testy · touchy · peevish
Soft, pocketable flatbread
- doshaAyurvedic bodily energy type
- AyurvedaTraditional Hindu healing practice
- fire elementBurning force of nature
- agniAyurvedic metabolic energy
heat · inflammation · sharp · penetrating · oily · constitution · imbalance · pacifying
Intensely and sincerely felt
- vehementIntensely forceful in feeling
- ardentIntensely enthusiastic or devoted
- zealousPassionately eager and active
- impassionedFilled with intense emotion
intense · fierce · forceful · heated · burning · fiery · spirited · animated
Intense, violent anger
- furyIntense violent anger
- wrathFierce, punishing anger
- ireIntense fury
- outburstSudden emotional release
indignation · fuming · seething · enraged · infuriated · livid · apoplectic · irate
bile
Liver-made digestive fluid
- yellow bileHumor causing irritability
- humorAmusing quality
- sanguineCheerfully optimistic temperament
melancholic · phlegmatic · Hippocrates · Galen · temperament · constitution · complexion · liver · gallbladder · imbalance
irascible
Prone to outbursts
- hot-temperedProne to quick anger
- short-temperedProne to sudden anger
- quick-temperedProne to sudden anger
fiery · volatile · explosive · combustible · mercurial · hotheaded · testy · touchy · peevish · petulant
pitta
Soft, pocketable flatbread
- doshaAyurvedic bodily energy type
- AyurvedaTraditional Hindu healing practice
- fire elementBurning force of nature
agni · heat · inflammation · sharp · penetrating · oily · constitution · imbalance · pacifying
fervent
Intensely and sincerely felt
- vehementIntensely forceful in feeling
- ardentIntensely enthusiastic or devoted
- zealousPassionately eager and active
impassioned · intense · fierce · forceful · heated · burning · fiery · spirited · animated · vigorous
rage
Intense, violent anger
outburst · indignation · fuming · seething · enraged · infuriated · livid · apoplectic · irate · wrathful
- personalitypersonality, trait, temperament, traits, character
- hot-temperedhotheaded, quick-tempered, hair-trigger, fiery, volatile
- irritabilitycranky, grouchy, grumpy, irritated, annoyed
- personalitiesintrovert, optimist, extrovert, pessimist, idealist
- medieval medicinebloodletting, leeching, four humors, humors, barber-surgeons
- personality typespersonality type, extrovert, MBTI, introversion, pessimist
cholericplacid
Calm, undisturbed
calm · even-tempered · phlegmatic · serene · tranquil
- cholera epidemicOutbreak of severe diarrheal disease
- cholera outbreakSudden spread of intestinal infection
- cholera vaccineImmunization against intestinal plague