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choler::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | yellow bile |
| Type of | liquid body substance, bodily fluid, body fluid, humor, humour |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | crossness, fretfulness, fussiness, irritability, peevishness, petulance |
| Type of | distemper, ill humor, ill humour |
| Has types | testiness, tetchiness, touchiness, pet |
choler::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | anger, ire |
| Type of | emotion |
| Has types | offense, outrage, rage, umbrage, annoyance, vexation, bad temper, chafe, dander, enragement, fury, hackles, huffiness, ill temper, indignation, infuriation, madness, offence |
| Derivation | choleric |
Examples of choler
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This is colour rather than choler when the traffic pressure is off.
From the couriermail.com.au
Over a period of weeks, she wins every game except one that she throws to calm his rising choler.
From the time.com
If the capital's taxis could be converted to run on choler, they'd have an inexhaustible supply of fuel.
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Bile, spleen, choler and gall don't have that many tunes.
From the economist.com
The movies always have a place for at least one causeless rebel whose choler is both enigmatic and unappeasable.
From the time.com
As the days passed, Byrne's choler mounted.
From the time.com
If Roth's mid-period novels are masterpieces of sarcastic choler, then the prevailing humour in this late quartet is black bile.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Packed with quirky information about colicky horses and spitting alpacas, it also offers a winning portrait of harried family life, choler and all.
From the npr.org
Ire is an intense and usually openly displayed anger, angriness, choler, furor, fury, indignation, irateness, anger, lividity, outrage, spleen, wrath.
From the guardian.co.uk
- Irritability: an irritable petulant feeling
- Anger: a strong emotion; a feeling that is oriented toward some real or supposed grievance
- Yellow bile: a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the liver and to cause irritability and anger
- (choleric) easily moved to anger; "men of the choleric type take to kicking and smashing"- H.G.Wells
- (choleric) characterized by anger; "a choleric outburst"; "an irascible response"
- Anger is a feeling related to one's perception of having been offended/wronged and a tendency to undo that wrongdoing by retaliation. R. Novaco recognized three modalities of anger: cognitive (appraisals), somatic-affective (tension and agitations) and behavioral (withdrawal and antagonism). ...
- (Choleric) Four Temperaments is a theory of psychology that stems from the ancient medical concept of humorism.
- (Choleric (ballet)) The Four Temperaments is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and balletmaster George Balanchine to music he commissioned from Paul Hindemith (the latter's eponymous 1940 music for string orchestra and piano) for the opening program of Ballet Society, immediate ...
- Anger or irritability; One of the four humours of ancient physiology, also known as yellow bile
