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adj
Senses relating to choler or yellow bile (“one of the four humours formerly believed to be secreted by the liver”).
Of or relating to choler.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
Topics: medicine, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Senses relating to choler or yellow bile (“one of the four humours formerly believed to be secreted by the liver”).
Of a person: having an excess of choler, and thus having a tendency to become angry easily; also, of a person's complexion or temperament: dominated by choler.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
Topics: medicine, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: noncholeric, uncholeric
adj
Senses relating to choler or yellow bile (“one of the four humours formerly believed to be secreted by the liver”).
Of a person: having an excess of choler, and thus having a tendency to become angry easily; also, of a person's complexion or temperament: dominated by choler.
Of a planet or zodiac sign, season, etc.: affecting people having an excess of choler, causing anger or irritability.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
Topics: astrology, human-sciences, medicine, mysticism, philosophy, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: noncholeric, uncholeric
adj
Senses relating to choler or yellow bile (“one of the four humours formerly believed to be secreted by the liver”).
Of a body organ: affected by or containing choler, especially when abnormal or excessive.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical, obsolete
Topics: medicine, sciences
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Senses relating to choler or yellow bile (“one of the four humours formerly believed to be secreted by the liver”).
Of a disease or symptom: caused by choler, especially when abnormal or excessive.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical, obsolete
Topics: medicine, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Senses relating to choler or yellow bile (“one of the four humours formerly believed to be secreted by the liver”).
Of food: causing an excess of choler in the body.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical, obsolete
Topics: medicine, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Senses relating to choler or yellow bile (“one of the four humours formerly believed to be secreted by the liver”).
Of a person: having a tendency to become angry easily; bad-tempered, irritable; also, feeling or showing anger; angry, enraged.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: hot-tempered, ill-tempered, irascible, temperamental, atrabilious, bad-tempered, bilious, bitchy, brainish, cantankerous, carnaptious, choleric, crabbit, crabby, cranky, crotchety, dyspeptic, edgy, fantoddish, fiery, fractious, fretful, grumpy, grotchy, grouchy, hissy, hot-livered, hotheaded, huffy, humpy, ill-natured, irritable, liverish, out of sorts, ornery (chiefly US)}, peevish, pettish, petulant, prickly, quick-tempered, querulous, raspy, ratty, short-tempered, snappish, snappy, snippety, snippish, snippy, snitchy, splenetic, stressy, surly, testy, tetchy, tetty, thin-skinned, thorny, touchy, twitchy, umbrageous, volatile, waspish, irate, wrathful, agitated, angry, annoyed, apoplectic, berserk, big mad, blood-boiling, boiling mad, butthurt, cheesed off, cross, enraged, fit to be tied, frustrated, fuming, furibund, furious, fury, glimflashy, grim, hopping mad, incensed, infuriated, ireful, ired, irritated, little mad, livid, mad, mad as a bear with a sore head, miffed, offended, pathetic, pissed off, p'd off, pissed, pissy, raging, ready to be tied, screwfaced, seething, spitting chips, sore, steaming, up on one's ear, upset, vexed, waxy, wode, wroth, zowerswopped
Antonyms: noncholeric, uncholeric
adj
Senses relating to choler or yellow bile (“one of the four humours formerly believed to be secreted by the liver”).
Of an act, feeling, words, etc.: arising from or showing anger.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Senses relating to choler or yellow bile (“one of the four humours formerly believed to be secreted by the liver”).
hot; also, hot and dry.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly, obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: hot, choleric, heated
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Senses relating to cholera (“any of several acute infectious diseases caused by certain strains of the Vibrio cholerae bacterium”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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adj
Senses relating to cholera (“any of several acute infectious diseases caused by certain strains of the Vibrio cholerae bacterium”).
Synonym of choleraic (“of or relating to cholera; also, affected by cholera”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: medicine, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: choleraic
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Senses relating to choler.
A person having an excess of choler, and thus having a tendency to become angry easily; preceded by the: such people collectively.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
Topics: medicine, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Senses relating to choler.
A person having a tendency to become angry easily; preceded by the: such people collectively.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Senses relating to cholera.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
Senses relating to cholera.
Synonym of choleraic (“a person suffering from cholera”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
Topics: medicine, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: choleraic
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
characterized by anger
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: irascible
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
quickly aroused to anger
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: irascible, hotheaded, hot-tempered, quick-tempered, short-tempered
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
easily moved to anger- H.G.Wells
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
From Middle English colerik (“(adjective) of or relating to, or dominated by, choler; of diseases: caused by excessive or toxic choler; of persons or their temperament: dominated by choler, irascible, quick to anger, choleric; of weather or zodiac signs: favourable to choler; (noun) person dominated by choler, person who is irascible or quick to anger; etc.”), from Anglo-Norman coleric, colerik, colerique, Middle French colerique, and Old French colerique (“(adjective) of or relating to choler; of persons or their temperament: dominated by choler, irascible, quick to anger; angry, enraged; (noun) person dominated by choler; person who is irascible”) (modern French cholérique), and from their etymon Late Latin cholericus (“quick to anger”), Latin cholericus (“person having cholera”), from Ancient Greek χολερικός (kholerikós, “of or relating to cholera”), from χολέρᾰ (kholéră, “cholera”) + -ῐκός (-ĭkós, suffix meaning ‘of or relating to’). Χολέρᾰ (Kholéră) is possibly from Pre-Greek, or from χολή (kholḗ, “bile; gall”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵhelh3- (“green; yellow”). By surface analysis, choler + -ic (suffix meaning ‘of or relating to’). Piecewise doublet of choleraic. Adjective sense 2.1 (“of or relating to cholera; affected by cholera”) and noun sense 2.1 (“person suffering from cholera”) are probably influenced by French cholérique (“(adjective) of or relating to cholera; affected by cholera; (noun) person with cholera”).
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