Irascible
Crossword Clue and Answers

Crossword Answers

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MAD
Marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion; "a crowd of delirious baseball fans"; "something frantic in their gaiety"; "a mad whirl of pleasure"

HOT
Having or bringing unusually good luck; "hot at craps"; "the dice are hot tonight"

HOT
Having or bringing unusually good luck; "hot at craps"; "the dice are hot tonight"

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BEAR
Massive plantigrade carnivorous or omnivorous mammals with long shaggy coats and strong claws

OGRE
(folklore) a giant who likes to eat human beings

WARM
Uncomfortable because of possible danger or trouble; "made things warm for the bookies"

EDGY
Being in a tense state

EDGE
A sharp side formed by the intersection of two surfaces of an object; "he rounded the edges of the box"

MEAN
Characterized by malice; "a hateful thing to do"; "in a mean mood"

UGLY
Morally reprehensible; "would do something as despicable as murder"; "ugly crimes"; "the vile development of slavery appalled them"; "a slimy little liar"

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ANGRY
Feeling or showing anger; "angry at the weather"; "angry customers"; "an angry silence"; "sending angry letters to the papers"

CROSS
(genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids

FIERY
Characterized by intense emotion; "ardent love"; "an ardent lover"; "a fervent desire to change society"; "a fervent admirer"; "fiery oratory"; "an impassioned appeal"; "a torrid love affair"

GRUFF
Deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness or emotion; "gruff voices"; "the dog's gruff barking"; "hoarse cries"; "makes all the instruments sound powerful but husky"- Virgil Thomson

HARSH
Sharply disagreeable; rigorous; "the harsh facts of court delays"; "an abrasive character"

HASTY
Excessively quick; "made a hasty exit"; "a headlong rush to sell"

HUFFY
Roused to anger; "stayed huffy a good while"- Mark Twain; "she gets mad when you wake her up so early"; "mad at his friend"; "sore over a remark"

NASTY
Characterized by obscenity; "had a filthy mouth"; "foul language"; "smutty jokes"

QUICK
Accomplished rapidly and without delay; "was quick to make friends"; "his quick reaction prevented an accident"; "hoped for a speedy resolution of the problem"; "a speedy recovery"; "he has a right to a speedy trial"

SHORT
(of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range; "a short memory"

SULKY
A light two-wheeled vehicle for one person; drawn by one horse

TESTY
Easily irritated or annoyed; "an incorrigibly fractious young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen"

SURLY
Inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace; "a surly waiter"; "an ugly frame of mind"

RATTY
Dirty and infested with rats

IRATE
Feeling or showing extreme anger; "irate protesters"; "ireful words"

MOODY
United States evangelist (1837-1899)

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UNEASY
Causing or fraught with or showing anxiety; "spent an anxious night waiting for the test results"; "cast anxious glances behind her"; "those nervous moments before takeoff"; "an unquiet mind"

IREFUL
Feeling or showing extreme anger; "irate protesters"; "ireful words"

GLOOMY
Filled with melancholy and despondency ; "gloomy at the thought of what he had to face"; "gloomy predictions"; "a gloomy silence"; "took a grim view of the economy"; "the darkening mood"; "lonely and blue in a strange city"; "depressed by the loss of his job"; "a dispirited and resigned expression on her face"; "downcast after his defeat"; "feeling discouraged and downhearted"

GLOOMY
Filled with melancholy and despondency ; "gloomy at the thought of what he had to face"; "gloomy predictions"; "a gloomy silence"; "took a grim view of the economy"; "the darkening mood"; "lonely and blue in a strange city"; "depressed by the loss of his job"; "a dispirited and resigned expression on her face"; "downcast after his defeat"; "feeling discouraged and downhearted"

MORBID
Suggesting an unhealthy mental state; "morbid interest in death"; "morbid curiosity"

ABRUPT
Surprisingly and unceremoniously brusque in manner; "an abrupt reply"

SURELY
Definitely or positively (`sure' is sometimes used informally for `surely'); "the results are surely encouraging"; "she certainly is a hard worker"; "it's going to be a good day for sure"; "they are coming, for certain"; "they thought he had been killed sure enough"; "he'll win sure as shooting"; "they sure smell good"; "sure he'll come"

ORNERY
Having a difficult and contrary disposition; "a cantankerous and venomous-tongued old lady"- Dorothy Sayers

TETCHY
Easily irritated or annoyed; "an incorrigibly fractious young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen"

CRABBY
Annoyed and irritable

TOUCHY
Difficult to handle; requiring great tact; "delicate negotiations with the big powers";"hesitates to be explicit on so ticklish a matter"; "a touchy subject"

BITCHY
Marked by or arising from malice; "a catty remark"

CRANKY
(used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail

CRUSTY
Brusque and surly and forbidding; "crusty remarks"; "a crusty old man"; "his curmudgeonly temper"; "gruff manner"; "a gruff reply"

CUSSED
Stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing

FEISTY
Quick to take offense

MOROSE
Showing a brooding ill humor; "a dark scowl"; "the proverbially dour New England Puritan"; "a glum, hopeless shrug"; "he sat in moody silence"; "a morose and unsociable manner"; "a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"- Bruce Bliven; "a sour temper"; "a sullen crowd"

MOROSE
Showing a brooding ill humor; "a dark scowl"; "the proverbially dour New England Puritan"; "a glum, hopeless shrug"; "he sat in moody silence"; "a morose and unsociable manner"; "a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"- Bruce Bliven; "a sour temper"; "a sullen crowd"

STUFFY
Affected with a sensation of stoppage or obstruction; "a stuffy feeling in my chest"

SULLEN
Darkened by clouds; "a heavy sky"

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BEARISH
Expecting prices to fall

CRABBED
Annoyed and irritable

FRETFUL
Habitually complaining; "a whiny child"

FROWARD
Habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition

FROWARD
Habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition

HUFFISH
Sullen or moody

HUFFISH
Sullen or moody

NERVOUS
Easily agitated; "a nervous addict"; "a nervous thoroughbred"

PRICKLY
Very irritable; "bristly exchanges between the White House and the press"; "he became prickly and spiteful"; "witty and waspish about his colleagues"

SPLEENY

WASPISH
Very irritable; "bristly exchanges between the White House and the press"; "he became prickly and spiteful"; "witty and waspish about his colleagues"

WASPISH
Very irritable; "bristly exchanges between the White House and the press"; "he became prickly and spiteful"; "witty and waspish about his colleagues"

WAYWARD
Resistant to guidance or discipline; "Mary Mary quite contrary"; "an obstinate child with a violent temper"; "a perverse mood"; "wayward behavior"

WAYWARD
Resistant to guidance or discipline; "Mary Mary quite contrary"; "an obstinate child with a violent temper"; "a perverse mood"; "wayward behavior"

BRISTLY
Very irritable; "bristly exchanges between the White House and the press"; "he became prickly and spiteful"; "witty and waspish about his colleagues"

GROUCHY
Annoyed and irritable

RUSHING
(American football) an attempt to advance the ball by running into the line; "the linebackers were ready to stop a rush"

ANGERED
Marked by extreme anger; "the enraged bull attached"; "furious about the accident"; "a furious scowl"; "infuriated onlookers charged the police who were beating the boy"; "could not control the maddened crowd"

AWKWARD
Socially uncomfortable; unsure and constrained in manner; "awkward and reserved at parties"; "ill at ease among eddies of people he didn't know"; "was always uneasy with strangers"

PEPPERY
Having the piquant burning taste of peppers; "corn chips with peppery salsa"

PEEVISH
Easily irritated or annoyed; "an incorrigibly fractious young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen"

UPTIGHT
Being in a tense state

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OFFENDED
Hurt or upset; "she looked offended"; "face had a pained and puzzled expression"

CHOLERIC
Characterized by anger; "a choleric outburst"; "an irascible response"

AGITABLE

CANKERED

CANKERED

CHURLISH
Having a bad disposition; surly; "churlish as a bear"- Shakespeare

CHURLISH
Having a bad disposition; surly; "churlish as a bear"- Shakespeare

CONTRARY
Exact opposition; "public opinion to the contrary he is not guilty"

DIVISIVE
Dissenting (especially dissenting with the majority opinion)

ERUPTIVE
Actively spewing out lava; "a geyser is an intermittently eruptive hot spring"

FACTIOUS
Dissenting (especially dissenting with the majority opinion)

PARTISAN
A pike with a long tapering double-edged blade with lateral projections; 16th and 17th centuries

PERVERSE
Deviating from what is considered moral or right or proper or good; "depraved criminals"; "a perverted sense of loyalty"; "the reprobate conduct of a gambling aristocrat"

PETULANT
Easily irritated or annoyed; "an incorrigibly fractious young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen"

SHREWISH
Continually complaining or faultfinding; "a shrewish wife"; "nagging parents"

SKITTISH
Unpredictably excitable (especially of horses)

SNAPPISH
Apt to speak irritably; "a snappish tone of voice"

SPITEFUL
Showing malicious ill will and a desire to hurt; motivated by spite; "a despiteful fiend"; "a truly spiteful child"; "a vindictive man will look for occasions for resentment"

VOLCANIC
Igneous rock produced by eruption and solidified on or near the earth's surface; rhyolite or andesite or basalt; "volcanic rock includes the volcanic glass obsidian"

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IRRITABLE
Easily irritated or annoyed; "an incorrigibly fractious young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen"

HOTHEADED
Characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation; "a hotheaded decision"; "liable to such impulsive acts as hugging strangers"; "an impetuous display of spending and gambling"; "madcap escapades"; (`brainish' is archaic)

UPSETTING
Causing an emotional disturbance; "his disconcerting habit of greeting friends ferociously and strangers charmingly"- Herb Caen; "an upsetting experience"

UPSETTING
Causing an emotional disturbance; "his disconcerting habit of greeting friends ferociously and strangers charmingly"- Herb Caen; "an upsetting experience"

TEMPERING
Hardening something by heat treatment

CROTCHETY
Having a difficult and contrary disposition; "a cantankerous and venomous-tongued old lady"- Dorothy Sayers

ACRITICAL
Without a crisis (as of some diseases)

SARCASTIC
Expressing or expressive of ridicule that wounds

NASTINESS
Malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty

WRANGLING
An instance of intense argument (as in bargaining)

STARTLISH

SPLENETIC
Of or relating to the spleen

SENSITIVE
Someone who serves as an intermediary between the living and the dead; "he consulted several mediums"