Definitions for short-tempered

short-tempered short-tem·pered

Spelling: [shawrt-tem-perd]
IPA: /ˈʃɔrtˈtɛm pərd/

Short-Tempered is a 14 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 1016 anagrams from letters in short-tempered (-deeehmoprrstt).

Definitions for short-tempered

adjective

  1. having a quick, hasty temper; irascible.

Origin of short-tempered

First recorded in 1885-90

Examples for short-tempered

The wind, it seemed, too, was expressing a little of the afternoon's short-tempered.

I'll get blamed if you go, and he's short-tempered this morning.

He was ever a short-tempered man, intolerant of irrelevancies.

“I wish to apologize for being so short-tempered this morning,” he began.

All of them are short-tempered, and the bars of their captivity not too strong.

The examiner too could be impulsive, was indeed apt to be short-tempered.

He was a short-tempered man of no great manners, and he only grunted his response.

Please forgive me for being (a) short-tempered; (b) tedious.

To take offense at slight provocation was ridiculed as "short-tempered."

In the morning they will often be sullen and short-tempered.

Word Value for short-tempered
Scrable

8

Words with friends

7

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