irascible

From French irascible, from Late Latin īrāscibilis.

• (UK, General American) IPA^(key): /ɪˈɹæs.ɪ.bəl/, /ɪˈɹæs.ə.bəl/

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• Rhymes: -ɪbəl

irascible (comparative more irascible, superlative most irascible)

1. Easily provoked to outbursts of anger; irritable.
   • 1809, Diedrich Knickerbocker [pseudonym; Washington Irving], chapter XVI, in A History of New York, from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), New York, N.Y.: Inskeep & Bradford, […], →OCLC:

     [T]he surly and irascible passions which, like belligerent powers, lie encamped around the heart.

   • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “The Affidavit”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 226:

     Like some poor devils ashore that happen to know an irascible great man, they make distant unobtrusive salutations to him in the street, lest if they pursued the acquaintance further, they might receive a summary thump for their presumption.

   • 1863 May 22 – 1863 June 26, L[ouisa] M[ay] Alcott, “Obtaining Supplies”, in Hospital Sketches, Boston, Mass.: James Redpath, […], published August 1863, →OCLC, page 15:

     I am naturally irascible, and if I could have shaken this negative gentleman vigorously, the relief would have been immense.

   • 1922, W[illiam] B[utler] Yeats, chapter XII, in The Trembling of the Veil, London: Privately printed for subscribers only by T[homas] Werner Laurie, Ltd., →OCLC, book I (Four Years 1887–1891), page 31:

     [A] never idle man of great physical strength and extremely irascible—did he not fling a badly baked plum pudding through the window upon Christmas Day?

   • 2004 February 29, Daniel Kadlec, “Why He’s Meanspan”, in Time‎:

     Alan Greenspan was on an irascible roll last week, first dissing everyone who holds a fixed-rate mortgage — suckers! — and later picking on folks who collect Social Security: Get back to work, Grandma.

• cantankerous, choleric, cranky, ill-tempered, hot-tempered

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From Latin īrāscibilis.

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /i.ɾəˈsi.blə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /i.ɾaˈsi.ble/

irascible (masculine and feminine plural irascibles)

1. irascible

• ira
• irascibilitat

• “irascible” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “irascible”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “irascible” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “irascible” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Borrowed from Late Latin īrāscibilis, from īrāscor (“grow angry”), from īra (“anger”).

• IPA^(key): /i.ʁa.sibl/

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irascible (plural irascibles)

1. irascible

• irascibilité
• ire

• “irascible”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• ciblerais

From Latin īrāscibilis.

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /iɾasˈθible/ [i.ɾasˈθi.β̞le]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /iɾaˈsible/ [i.ɾaˈsi.β̞le]
• Rhymes: -ible
• Syllabification: i‧ras‧ci‧ble

irascible (plural irascibles)

1. irascible

• “irascible”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014