foul-tempered
Quick to snap
Foul-tempered describes someone habitually irritable, quick to anger, or unpleasant in disposition.
The phrase suggests a persistently bad mood rather than a momentary flash of temper: The foul-tempered shopkeeper drove away customers with his constant scowling.
A foul-tempered person is someone you'd rather avoid.
Easily provoked to annoyance
- grumpyIrritable in temperament
- cantankerousBad-tempered and argumentative
- curmudgeonIll-tempered, stubborn person
- crotchetyIrritable and complaining
grouchy · ill-natured · disagreeable · surly · peevish · ornery · tetchy · crabby
irritable
Easily provoked to annoyance
- grumpyIrritable in temperament
- cantankerousBad-tempered and argumentative
- curmudgeonIll-tempered, stubborn person
crotchety · grouchy · ill-natured · disagreeable · surly · peevish · ornery · tetchy · crabby · sour
snapping
Breaking with sharp sound
tantrum · tirade · glowering · huffing · barking · lashing out · storming · fuming · seething · brooding
ogre
Monstrous man-eating giant
battle-axe · grouch · Scrooge · grinch · sourpuss · old goat · dragon · termagant · villain · antagonist
foul-temperedgood-tempered
Consistently pleasant in disposition
good-natured · sweet-tempered · even-tempered · pleasant · cheerful
temper, foul, temperate, fouled, temperament, tempered, foulness, fouling, fouler