| 单词 | choleric |
| 释义 | choleric (once / 8324 pages) adj Are you easy to tick off? Known to have a short fuse? Then, you could be described as choleric. Don't worry; it's not a disease related to cholera. Choleric just means you're testy and irritable. Before the advent of modern medicine, most folks believed that health and disease were the result of the balance of "humors" in the body. If you were quick to anger, you were thought to have too much choler in your system. You were called choleric. W. C. Fields, Richard Nixon, and Ebinezer Scrooge are just a few people famous for being choleric, easy to tick off. WORD FAMILYcholeric: cholerically+/choler: choleric, cholers USAGE EXAMPLESThat’s largely owing to Bobby Moreno’s swaggering, choleric performance as the toothy Rex. New York Times(Dec 07, 2016) The Elizabethans boiled it down to four types: You were choleric or sanguine or melancholy or aggressive. New York Times(Oct 29, 2016) At his quietest, he appears to be struggling to hold back another choleric eruption. New York Times(Sep 20, 2016) 1adj characterized by anger a choleric outburst Syn irascible angry feeling or showing anger 2adj quickly aroused to anger Syn hot-tempered, hotheaded, irascible, quick-tempered, short-tempered ill-natured having an irritable and unpleasant disposition 3adj easily moved to anger "men of the choleric type take to kicking and smashing"- H.G.Wells Syn passionate having or expressing strong emotions |
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