Excited (originally with reference to the attendant increase in bodily heat). Characterized by anger or hatred; angry, furious. Also…

Extremely fierce or violent, ferocious; irascible, passionate.

Quickly roused to anger; quick-tempered, irritable; = hasty, adj. 3.

Given to anger, hot-tempered, irascible.

Of a person or a person's disposition: quickly roused to anger; quick-tempered, irritable.

Disposed or prone to anger; habitually feeling anger; hot-tempered.

Inclined to melancholy; (Medicine) †of a melancholic constitution (obsolete); affected with melancholy, gloomy. Also, of a sound, etc.: expressive…

Hasty, impatient, hot-tempered. Now English regional (Herefordshire) and Irish English (northern).

Choleric, passionate, irascible.

Angry; sullen. Obsolete.

? Hot-tempered, irritable.

Inclined to wrath; = iracund, adj.

Esp. of a person: easily moved to, or prone to, anger; hot-tempered, irascible. Now archaic and rare.

figurative. Inclined to fume, hot-tempered, irascible, passionate; also, characterized by or exhibiting anger or irascibility.

Easily provoked to anger or resentment; prone to anger; irritable, choleric, hot-tempered, passionate.

Prone to wrath.

Hot-tempered, fiercely irritable; irascible, angry.

Hot-tempered, angry.

Disposed to anger or easily angered; hot-tempered, fiery; bad-tempered, irascible; irritable, cantankerous. Also: characterized by or indicative of…

At the immediate moment; at the start. Frequently (and now only) in hot at hand: fierce or hot-tempered to begin with; (also more generally)…

esp. Quick to resent any trifling injury or affront; irascible, petulantly spiteful.

Of inflamed disposition, full of rage or wrath.

Choleric, wrathful, peevish, ill-tempered.

Spleenful; of a hot or hasty temper.

Excitable, irascible; cf. hot-tempered adj. (b) at hot, adj. n.1compounds 3. Now rare.

Hasty in temper, easily provoked, irascible. Said also of the temper.

That spits fire; fire-spitting; figurative irascible, displaying anger or hot temper.

Having no moderation of temper.

allusively and fig. Of language, expression: Characterized by heat; in recent use, blasphemous, profane.

Capable of or liable to anger; irascible.

†(a) Arrogant, choleric. (b) Ready to take ‘huff’ or offence; touchy, pettish.

Inclined to be irritable or quick-tempered; = hasty, adj. 3a.

figurative. Of a person: hot-tempered, irritable, testy; fiery. Also in extended use.

Easily fired or roused to excitement; excitable, hasty-tempered, passionate.

having a hair trigger.

Of or relating to ginger; flavoured with ginger, tasting of ginger.

dialect and U.S. Angry, irritable, irascible.

Inclined to wrath; choleric, passionate, irascible.

Easily angered, irascible.

Of persons: Feeling, or inclined to, wrath; wrathful, very angry, incensed.

dialect. Angry; of a violent temper, passionate.

pertaining to or characteristic of gunpowder; of the bluish colour of gunpowder; figurative fiery, easily fired, inflamed, or irritated.

Quick-tempered. Also pseudo-archaic., displaying extreme conditions of weather.

Tending to become embittered.

Short-tempered.

Suggestive of lightning.

Inclined to or exhibiting bad temper.