English Dictionary

choleric

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈkɒl(ə)ɹɪk/

形容詞

廃用

(according to theories of the four humours or temperaments) Having a temperament characterized by an excess of choler; easily becoming angry. / Showing or expressing anger.

日本語の意味

胆汁質 / 怒りっぽい / 気性の激しい

The choleric professor stormed out of the lecture hall after a student challenged his claim.

胆汁質の教授は、学生が自分の主張に異議を唱えると、怒りをあらわにして講義室を飛び出した。

意味（1）

(according to theories of the four humours or temperaments) Having a temperament characterized by an excess of choler; easily becoming angry.

And let a man beware, how he keepeth company with choleric and quarrelsome persons; for they will engage him into their own quarrels.

意味（2）

Showing or expressing anger.

What, what, my lord! are you so choleric With Eleanor, for telling but her dream?

意味（3）

Of or relating to cholera (infectious disease).

I now proceed to enumerate those lesions and morbid changes found in the bodies of those cut off by cholera, which must have preceded the appearance of the disease, and which, existing, as they did, in very different organs, had no connection with the choleric symptoms, but nevertheless rendered the chance of recovery much less likely.

意味（4）

(obsolete) Causing an excess of choler.

I fear it is too choleric a meat. How say you to a fat tripe finely broil’d?

more choleric （ comparative ）

most choleric （ superlative ）