MEANING
Readily provoked into anger.
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- irascible temper
- irascible neighbor
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The irascible neighbor shouted through the wall.
His irascible temper made questions dangerous.
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Primary category: literary. Forms: Comparative more irascible; superlative most irascible where gradation is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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