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choleric
[kol-er-ik, kuh-ler-ik]
adjective
extremely irritable or easily angered; irascible.
a choleric disposition.
Synonyms: , , ,Antonyms: ,Obsolete.Ģż
causing biliousness.
choleric
/ ˰ģɱōɰłÉŖ°ģ /
adjective
bad-tempered
bilious or causing biliousness
Other 51³Ō¹Ļ Forms
- cholerically adverb
- cholericly adverb
- cholericness noun
- noncholeric adjective
- uncholeric adjective
- ˳¦³ó“DZō±š°ł¾±³¦²¹±ō±ō²ā adverb
51³Ō¹Ļ History and Origins
Example Sentences
āPalace Fury at Megflix,ā The Daily Mail said, though just how choleric the royal family was is open to debate.
Show gang brutality, highlight people clinging to rafts made from rotted wood, make videos of dehydrated, choleric children fighting to live.
A hot and dry person was thought to be choleric and ruled by yellow bile, associated with childhood and summer.
Even outside politics, Mr. Jonesās choleric, wide-eyed style has influenced the way in which a new generation of conspiracy theorists looks for fame online.
Griffith was one of those self-mythologizing frontier characters, a self-promoter of choleric temper and roller-coaster fortunes; the ācolonelā title itself is of murky origin, perhaps from some brief spell with the California National Guard.
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When To Use
Choleric means easily angered or generally bad-tempered.People described as choleric are grouchy all the time and prone to getting into arguments, often for very little reason.The word choleric comes from the medieval notion that peopleās personalities are based on the balance of four different types of elemental fluids in their body, called humors. A choleric person was thought to be generally irritable due to the amount of yellow bile, or choler, in their body.Example: She was the kind of choleric person who would get into a fight over anything and everything.
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