HOT-TEMPERED Synonyms: 102 Similar and Opposite Words

hot-tempered

adjective

Definition of hot-tempered

as in antagonistic

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Recent Examples of hot-tempered In addition, teens who are dealing with intense emotions that are hard to cope with are often hot-tempered and easily irritated. — Staff Author, Parents, 9 Mar. 2026 What is the strategy for living with someone who is exceedingly hot-tempered? — R. Eric Thomas, Mercury News, 25 Oct. 2025 The movie co-stars Albert Finney as an acclaimed and hot-tempered writer named George and Keaton as Faith, the wife and mother of his children, who gave up her own dreams to support him, only to get thrown over for a younger woman (Karen Allen). — Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 12 Oct. 2025 Robbie is a complicated man, at once incredibly compassionate and deeply self-centered, philosophical and brooding but also impulsive and hot-tempered. — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for hot-tempered

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Adjective

With this pricey deal for Carlsson, the Ducks’ history of antagonistic negotiations with their free agents has become the defining feature of Verbeek’s front office.

— Greg Beacham, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2026
Trump has long maintained a complicated, often antagonistic relationship with Swift.

— Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 5 July 2026

Definition of antagonistic

Adjective

Boys with their toys, thought The Times’ feisty critic Isabelle Morse Jones.

— Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2026
Kelly Reilly, who has played the feisty rancher since 2018, reprised her role alongside Cole Hauser as her onscreen husband in the Paramount+ spinoff series, which saw Beth and Rip (Hauser) relocate to Texas from Montana.

— Julia Moore, PEOPLE, 13 July 2026

Definition of feisty

Adjective

The tit-for-tat strikes and increasingly belligerent posture from both sides roiled markets and is threatening to unravel the memorandum of understanding signed last month to end the war.

— Zac Anderson, USA Today, 8 July 2026
America, the world’s oldest, continuous, modern democracy, will soon celebrate its 250th birthday—mired in conflict and piloted by a belligerent and mercurial nationalist.

— Dominic Erdozain, Time, 3 July 2026

Definition of belligerent

Adjective

Explanations as to why he was fired have varied widely from the defense minister allegedly being too corrupt, not corrupt enough, too combative with army leadership, too showy, too popular, and too in the clouds on military matters.

— Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 16 July 2026
Rather than a cohesive national unit, Americans faced a loose, tense and combative set of state and local interests.

— Donovan Fifield, The Conversation, 16 July 2026

Definition of combative

Adjective

Volatile, quarrelsome, dogmatic, and sure of his own brilliance, Reinhold outraged patrons, amassed huge debts, and turned his eldest son into an exhausted workhorse.

— Jenny Uglow, The New York Review of Books, 4 July 2026
The toys, like the perpetually quarrelsome Woody and Buzz or Jessie the cowgirl, who now takes center stage, have seen their boy and girl owners grow up and leave them behind.

— Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 16 June 2026

Definition of quarrelsome

Adjective

While advocates and civil rights activists accused the department of mistreating immigrants under his leadership, Mullin’s less confrontational approach seemed to keep the department out of the spotlight.

— Rebecca Santana, Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2026
Smith had a somewhat confrontational exchange with the two women in the back of his police cruiser that day.

— Ariane Lange, Sacbee.com, 8 July 2026

Definition of confrontational

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