waspish temper
1waspish — adjective Date: 1566 1. resembling a wasp in behavior; especially snappish, petulant < a waspish temper > 2. resembling a wasp in form; especially slightly built • waspishly adverb • waspishness noun …
2waspish — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. snappish, petulant, irascible; slender waisted. See irascibility, narrowness. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. bad tempered, snappish, crabby*; see irritable . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. bad… …
3bristly prickly snappish splenetic waspish — Ill natured Ill na tured, a. 1. Of habitual bad temper; having an unpleasant disposition; surly; disagreeable; cross; peevish; fractious; crabbed; of people; as, an ill natured person; an ill natured disagreeable old man. Opposite of {good… …
4irritable — irritable, fractious, peevish, snappish, waspish, petulant, pettish, huffy, fretful, querulous apply to persons or to their moods or dispositions in the sense of showing impatience or anger without due or sufficient cause. Irritable implies… …
5JEZREEL, VALLEY OF — (also known as the Plain of Esdraelon ; (Heb. עֵמֶק יִזְרְעֶאל), Emek Yizre el, named after the city of jezreel ), the largest of the inland valleys of Israel, after the Jordan Valley. It consists of the alluvial plain of the Kishon River,… …
6Irascibility — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Irascibility >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 irascibility irascibility irascibleness temper Sgm: N 1 crossness crossness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 susceptibility susceptibility procacity petulance irritability …
7Marcus Aurelius — Not to be confused with Aurelian. Marcus Aurelius 16th Emperor of the Roman Empire Bust of Marcus Aurelius in the Glyptothek, Munich …
8irascibility — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Tendency to become angry Nouns 1. irascibility, temper; crossness; petulance, irritability, pugnacity, contentiousness, excitability; bad, hot, fiery, or quick temper, hot blood; ill humor, surliness,… …
9irascible — irascible, choleric, splenetic, testy, touchy, cranky, cross mean easily angered or enraged. Irascible implies the possession of a fiery or inflammable temper or a tendency to flare up at the slightest provocation {the irascible but kindhearted… …
10cross — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. rood, crucifix; crosspiece, cross mark, X, ex; gibbet; bur den, trial, trouble, adversity, affliction; hybrid, mixture, crossbreed; half caste, half breed; (cap.) Christianity, the Church, Gospel. v.… …