hot-livered

adjective

Of an irritable temperament; irascible; easily angered.

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Meanings

adjectivehot-livered (comparative more hot-livered, superlative most hot-livered)

comparative more hot-livered · superlative most hot-livered

  1. archaicOf an irritable temperament; irascible; easily angered.

    [Y]ou cite them to appeare for certaine Paragogicall contempts, before a capricious Pædantie of hot-liver’d Grammarians.

    1641, [John Milton], Animadversions upon the Remonstrants Defence against Smectymnuus, London: […] [Richard Oulton and Gregory Dexter] for Thomas Vnderhill, […], →OCLC, page 6

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
irritable
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