choleric
/ˈkɑlərɪk/
adjective
- Easily angered or bad-tempered; irritable.
- Being stuck in traffic made him choleric, honking his horn repeatedly.
- Her choleric boss would often lose his temper over small mistakes.
- The choleric old man shouted at the children for playing near his garden.
- Relating to the bodily humor choler (yellow bile) in medieval medicine, believed to cause a hot-tempered personality.
- The doctor described her as having a choleric constitution, prone to anger and impatience.
- In ancient medicine, a choleric temperament was linked to an excess of yellow bile.
- Medieval scholars believed a choleric person had a fiery and aggressive nature.