Crossword clues for short-tempered
short-tempered
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
short-tempered
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ He tends to be very short-tempered when he's hungry.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Did they guess why she was so short-tempered of late?
▪ During those months I became anxious, short-tempered and critical.
▪ He is too short-tempered, for one thing, and also capable of doubt, anxiety, weariness, fear.
▪ His father was growing short-tempered as one interview after another proved to be fixed in some one else's favour.
▪ She found she was short-tempered with shop assistants, angry if something she had ordered failed to arrive on the appointed date.
▪ When John was so short-tempered, it hardly seemed possible to conduct a civilised conversation.
▪ You become tense, short-tempered and irritable with other people.
Wiktionary
short-tempered
a. Of or pertaining to a person who is easily angered, who is known to frequently lose his or her temper.
WordNet
short-tempered
adj. quickly aroused to anger; "a hotheaded commander" [syn: choleric, irascible, hotheaded, hot-tempered, quick-tempered, short]
Usage examples of "short-tempered".
Everyone got very short-tempered, and there probably would have been serious trouble if the tide had not come in and washed a few whale carcasses and dead elasmosaurs onto the beach.
Everyone had given up by now except Seregil, who'd grown increasingly short-tempered as he pursued one false scent after another.