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词汇 choleric
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Definition of choleric in English:

choleric

adjective ˈkɒlərɪk
  • 1Bad-tempered or irritable.

    性情暴躁的;易怒的

    he was a choleric, self-important little man
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Indeed, the political system accommodated the interests and choleric attitudes of both men with little difficulty.
    • Even Maureen, who generally treats her choleric partner with girlish forbearance, at one point asks: ‘Why do you always shout like that, Rolf?’
    • The negative side came about largely through his personality which is described as ‘occasionally choleric, quarrelsome, and given to invectives.’
    • While Ralph was the choleric loser, Ed was the lucky buffoon.
    • In Churchill's darkest hour, the future PM is reduced to a choleric, drunken, melancholic old man, reviled and mocked as a warmonger by the Establishment and the British public alike.
    Synonyms
    bad-tempered, irascible, irritable, grumpy, grouchy, crotchety, tetchy, testy, crusty, cantankerous, curmudgeonly, ill-tempered, ill-natured, ill-humoured, peevish, cross, fractious, disagreeable, pettish, crabbed, crabby, waspish, prickly, peppery, touchy, scratchy, splenetic, shrewish, short-tempered, hot-tempered, quick-tempered, dyspeptic, bilious, liverish, cross-grained
    argumentative, quarrelsome, uncooperative, contrary, perverse, difficult, awkward
    informal snappish, snappy, chippy, short-fused
    British informal shirty, stroppy, narky, ratty, eggy, like a bear with a sore head
    North American informal cranky, ornery, peckish, soreheaded
    Australian/New Zealand informal snaky
    informal, dated waxy, miffy
    1. 1.1 (in medieval medicine) having choler as the predominant bodily humour.
      a choleric disposition

      胆汁质性格。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • ‘Adding fuel to the fire’ is Culpeper's way of saying that the herb strengthens the choleric humour associated with fever.
      • Rather, he is choleric in temperament: he is passionate, intemperate, and prone to rashness and anger.
      • As a choleric sign it is prone to fevers and is linked to yellow-jaundice and sore eyes.
      • The sanguine humour is the principal humour of the blood which embodies the other three humours: the choleric, melancholic and phlegmatic within it.
      • Imbalance of the humours resulted in various temperaments, thus the dominance of black bile causes melancholy; blood, sanguine temperament; phlegm, a phlegmatic temperament; or yellow bile, a choleric temperament.

Derivatives

  • cholerically

  • adverb
    • The other was his unbounded egomania which cholerically expressed itself - all the more pronounced as disasters started to accumulate - in the belief that no one else was competent or trustworthy, and that he alone could ensure victory.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Transmucosal absorption of cholerically active compounds is contemplated to be very rapid, with about 50% of the compound being absorbed within 30 minutes.
      • Beyond saying that the book is nicely produced and offers some opinions that will have some typographers nodding appreciatively but others spluttering cholerically, I am not expert enough to venture an opinion.
      • Once cholerically opposed by classical financiers, he can now, as Baron Keynes, boost his theories in the House of Lords.
      • To use the power of the majority to cholerically abase and degrade such dissenters, however mistaken they may seem to be, will ultimately be counterproductive.

Origin

Middle English (in the sense 'bilious'): from Old French cholerique, via Latin from Greek kholerikos, from kholera (see choler).

Definition of choleric in US English:

choleric

adjective
  • 1Bad-tempered or irritable.

    性情暴躁的;易怒的

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The negative side came about largely through his personality which is described as ‘occasionally choleric, quarrelsome, and given to invectives.’
    • While Ralph was the choleric loser, Ed was the lucky buffoon.
    • Indeed, the political system accommodated the interests and choleric attitudes of both men with little difficulty.
    • In Churchill's darkest hour, the future PM is reduced to a choleric, drunken, melancholic old man, reviled and mocked as a warmonger by the Establishment and the British public alike.
    • Even Maureen, who generally treats her choleric partner with girlish forbearance, at one point asks: ‘Why do you always shout like that, Rolf?’
    Synonyms
    bad-tempered, irascible, irritable, grumpy, grouchy, crotchety, tetchy, testy, crusty, cantankerous, curmudgeonly, ill-tempered, ill-natured, ill-humoured, peevish, cross, fractious, disagreeable, pettish, crabbed, crabby, waspish, prickly, peppery, touchy, scratchy, splenetic, shrewish, short-tempered, hot-tempered, quick-tempered, dyspeptic, bilious, liverish, cross-grained
    1. 1.1 Influenced by or predominating in the humor called choler.
      〈史〉胆汁影响的;体液中胆汁占支配地位的
      a choleric disposition

      胆汁质性格。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Imbalance of the humours resulted in various temperaments, thus the dominance of black bile causes melancholy; blood, sanguine temperament; phlegm, a phlegmatic temperament; or yellow bile, a choleric temperament.
      • ‘Adding fuel to the fire’ is Culpeper's way of saying that the herb strengthens the choleric humour associated with fever.
      • Rather, he is choleric in temperament: he is passionate, intemperate, and prone to rashness and anger.
      • The sanguine humour is the principal humour of the blood which embodies the other three humours: the choleric, melancholic and phlegmatic within it.
      • As a choleric sign it is prone to fevers and is linked to yellow-jaundice and sore eyes.

Origin

Middle English (in the sense ‘bilious’): from Old French cholerique, via Latin from Greek kholerikos, from kholera (see choler).

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