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irascible

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English

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WOTD – 8 August 2008

Etymology

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FromMiddle English, fromOld Frenchirascible, fromLate Latinīrāscibilis, fromLatinīrāscī(“to be angry, enraged”) +-bilis.[1][2]

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Adjective

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irascible (comparativemoreirascible,superlativemostirascible)

  1. Easilyprovoked tooutbursts ofanger;irritable.
    Synonyms:cantankerous,choleric,cranky,bad-tempered,ill-tempered,hot-tempered;see alsoThesaurus:irritable
    • 1809, Diedrich Knickerbocker [pseudonym;Washington Irving], chapter II, inA History of New York, from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty. […], volume I, New York, N.Y.: Inskeep & Bradford, […],→OCLC, book III,page132:
      The divine Plato, whose doctrines are not sufficiently attended to by philosophers of the present age, allows to every man three souls—one, immortal and rational, seated in the brain, that it may overlook and regulate the body—a second consisting of the surly andirascible passions, which like belligerent powers lie encamped around the heart[…]
    • 1851 November 14,Herman Melville, “The Affidavit”, inMoby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.:Harper & Brothers; London:Richard Bentley,→OCLC,page26:
      Like some poor devils ashore that happen to know anirascible 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”, inHospital Sketches, Boston, Mass.:James Redpath, […], published August 1863,→OCLC,page15:
      I am naturallyirascible, and if I could have shaken this negative gentleman vigorously, the relief would have been immense.
    • 1922,W[illiam] B[utler] Yeats, chapter XII, inThe Trembling of the Veil, London: Privately printed for subscribers only byT[homas] Werner Laurie, Ltd.,→OCLC,book I (Four Years 1887–1891),page31:
      […] a never idle man of great physical strength and extremelyirascible—did he not fling a badly baked plum pudding through the window upon Christmas Day?
    • 2004 February 29, Daniel Kadlec, “Why He’s Meanspan”, inTime‎[1], New York, N.Y.:Time Inc.,→ISSN,→OCLC, archived fromthe original on30 June 2013:
      Alan Greenspan was on anirascible 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.
  2. (theology) Relating to the irascible passions
    Antonym:concupiscible
    • 2015, Jeffrey Froula, “Aquinas on the Moral Neutrality of the Passion of Despair”, inNew Blackfriars:
      Theirascible and concupiscible appetites are distinguished by different aspects of their objects. The object of the concupiscible faculty "is sensible good or evil, simply apprehended as such" while good and evil considered as "arduous or difficult … is the object of theirascible faculty."

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Translations

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prone to anger

References

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  1. ^“īrascī̆ble,adj. as n.”, inMED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.:University of Michigan,2007.
  2. ^“irascible,adj.”, inThe American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.:Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,2016,→ISBN.

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Catalan

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromLatinīrāscibilis.

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Adjective

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irascible m orf (masculine and feminine pluralirascibles)

  1. irascible

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French

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromLate Latinīrāscibilis, fromīrāscor(“grow angry”), fromīra(“anger”).

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irascible (pluralirascibles)

  1. irascible

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Anagrams

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Spanish

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Etymology

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FromLatinīrāscibilis.

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

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irascible m orf (masculine and feminine pluralirascibles)

  1. irascible

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