Emotions

Synonyms for irascible

Synonyms for irascible: choleric and hotheaded. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.

2 synonyms · Tier 5, Summit · 1 sense · adjective

The 2 synonyms for irascible

Interchangeable with irascible in this sense

Audited under irascible's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one irascible carries in that sense.

cholericadjective, in the sense "characterized by anger"

Recorded from the other side of the pair

These entries were written under the other word and name irascible as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.

hotheadedhotheaded is an adjective in the sense "quickly aroused to anger"

Two directions, one standard: one audited under irascible and one under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.

The senseadjectiveTier 5, SummitEmotions

characterized by anger

An irascible response.

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The true synonym

choleric

Same sentence, swapped: An choleric response.

Close but different

These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where irascible stands in the sentence above.

inflammable
cussed
emotional

Where irascible turns up in the game

irascible is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 5, Summit. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. Nothing on it is written while the page is built.

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