irascible• He dashed about her, solicitous but irascible.• He was recognised to be highly jealous and irascible.• an irascibleactress• He was irascible, hard-cussing, for ever landing in trouble.• Alicia Silverstone plays an irasciblerich girl who stages her own kidnapping to get attention from daddy.• This irascibletrait naturally served to increase his enemies.
Originirascible
(1500-1600)FrenchLate Latinirascibilis, from Latinira; → IRE