hot-tempered
/'hɔt'hedid/ Cách viết khác : (hot-tempered) /'hɔt'tempəd/
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Definition
Adjective: - Easily angered or provoked: Describes a person who becomes angry very quickly and with little provocation. This trait implies a lack of patience and a tendency toward immediate, often intense, emotional reactions.
Usage and Examples
- Adjective:
- My boss is so hot-tempered that everyone is careful about what they say in meetings.
- He regretted his hot-tempered response as soon as the words left his mouth.
- It's challenging to negotiate with someone who is known to be hot-tempered.
Advanced Usage
- Used attributively (before a noun): Most commonly, "hot-tempered" is used directly before the noun it describes.
- a hot-tempered reaction, a hot-tempered individual, a hot-tempered debate
- Used predictively (after a linking verb like 'be', 'become', 'seem'):
- She can be hot-tempered when she's under pressure.
- He became increasingly hot-tempered as the argument continued.
Variants and Related Words
- Hothead (noun): A person who is hot-tempered or impulsive.
- He was a young hothead, always getting into fights.
- Hotheaded (adjective): A direct synonym for hot-tempered, often implying rashness or impetuosity alongside a quick temper.
- a hotheaded decision
- Short-tempered (adjective): Very similar in meaning to hot-tempered, suggesting a quickness to anger.
- Quick-tempered (adjective): Another synonym for easily angered.
Synonyms
- Irascible: Easily provoked to anger.
- Choleric: Bad-tempered or irritable.
- Testy: Easily irritated; impatient and somewhat bad-tempered.
- Cantankerous: Bad-tempered, argumentative, and uncooperative.
Antonyms
- Even-tempered: Not easily annoyed or angered; calm.
- Placid: Not easily upset or excited.
- Patient: Able to accept or tolerate delays, problems, or suffering without becoming annoyed or anxious.
- Cool-headed: Calm and able to think clearly in difficult situations.
Idioms and Common Phrases
- Have a short fuse: An idiom meaning to be hot-tempered; to anger easily.
- Be careful what you say to him; he has a very short fuse.
- Fly off the handle: To suddenly become very angry.
- She flies off the handle at the smallest criticism.
Adjective
- quickly aroused to anger
- a hotheaded commander