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short-tempered

short-tempered adjective: easily angered; frequently losing one's temper.

Adjective

short-tempered (comparative more short-tempered, superlative most short-tempered)

  1. Easily angered; frequently losing one's temper.
    • She is so short-tempered that people avoid her company.

short-tempered meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Bengali and Malayalam

short-tempered in Tamil

எளிதிற் கோபங்கொள்ளுகிற

short-tempered in Marathi

easily angered
तापट tāpaṭ

short-tempered in Bengali

সহজেই রাগে এমন, বদরাগী, ক্রোধপ্রবণ

short-tempered in Malayalam

പെട്ടെന്നു കുപിതനാകുന്ന, ക്ഷിപ്രകോപിയായ
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short-tempered in Kannada
ಸಿಡುಕು ಸ್ವಭಾವದ, ಮುಂಗೋಪದ, ಬೇಗ ಕೆರಳುವ ಸ್ವಭಾವದ
short-tempered in Punjabi
ਡੇਹਮੂ ḍehmū, تتا tattā, ਤੱਤਾ tattā
short-tempered in Arabic
عَصَبِيّ ʕaṣabiyy

Synonyms of short-tempered

Antonyms

Forms of short-tempered

comparativemore short-tempered
superlativemost short-tempered

Origin of short-tempered

By surface analysis, short temper + -ed.

Questions about short-tempered

What does short-tempered mean?
Short-tempered means easily angered; frequently losing one's temper.
What is short-tempered in Tamil?
Short-tempered in Tamil is எளிதிற் கோபங்கொள்ளுகிற. See Short-tempered meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is short-tempered?
Short-tempered is an adjective.

Words near short-tempered in the dictionary

  1. short-tailed hawks
  2. short-tailed parrot
  3. short-tailed parrots
  4. short-tailed weasel
  5. short-tailed weasels
  6. short-tempered
  7. short-term
  8. short-term memory
  9. short-termer
  10. short-termers
  11. short-termism

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Adapted from Wiktionary: short-tempered (page history and authors); short-tempered (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); short-tempered (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); short-tempered (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); short-tempered (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); تتا (Punjabi) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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