choler
Meanings
Plural: cholers
Noun
- an irritable petulant feeling
- a strong emotion; a feeling that is oriented toward some real or supposed grievance
- a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the liver and to cause irritability and anger
- Anger or irritability.
- Synonym of yellow bile.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English coler (“yellow bile”), from Old French colere (“bile, anger”), from Latin cholera (“bilious disease”), from Ancient Greek χολή (kholḗ, “bile”). Doublet of cholera.
Synonyms
anger, bile, crossness, displeasure, fretfulness, fury, fussiness, gall, grudge, indignation, ire, irritability, passion, peevishness, petulance, rage, spleen, vexation, wrath, yellow bile
Scrabble Score: 11
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