hot-tempered

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

1. Becoming very vocal or even violent when angered or frustrated.

• choleric
• hotheaded
• irascible
• temperamental
• emotional

• cool (in the sense of calm or relaxed)
• cool-headed
• even-tempered

• quick-tempered
• short-tempered