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choleric
What does choleric mean?
choleric (adjective): of a person: having a tendency to become angry easily; bad-tempered, irritable; also, feeling or showing anger; angry, enraged.
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What does “choleric” mean?
able to be hammered into thin sheets; capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers
Not quite: that's what malleable means.
characterized by rigorous self-denial or self-discipline; austere; abstinent; involving a withholding of physical pleasure
Not quite: that's what ascetic means.
of a speech or piece of writing: overly complicated or elaborate; with grandiloquent expressions; marked by rhetorical elegance
Not quite: that's what flowery means.
of a person: having a tendency to become angry easily; bad-tempered, irritable; also, feeling or showing anger; angry, enraged
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