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  • 61hot — Synonyms and related words: OK, Titian, Titian red, abandoned, ablaze, ace high, activated, afire, animal, ape about, aphrodisiomaniacal, approaching, approximate, approximating, ardent, arm in arm, autoluminescent, bad, baking, bang up, banned,… …

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  • 62hotheaded — Synonyms and related words: accident prone, ardent, brash, breakneck, careless, combustible, daredevil, desperate, devil may care, explosive, fanatic, fierce, fiery, flaming, foolhardy, furious, hard core, harum scarum, hasty, headlong, heated,… …

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  • 63passionate — Synonyms and related words: abandoned, ablaze, afire, amative, amatory, amorous, animated, ardent, argumentative, aroused, atrabiliar, atrabilious, attracted, avid, belligerent, bilious, blazing, boiling, boiling over, breathless, burning,… …

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  • 64peppery — Synonyms and related words: alert, beany, brisk, burning, choleric, combustible, cranky, cross, curried, explosive, fiery, hasty, high seasoned, high spirited, hot, hot as pepper, hot tempered, hotheaded, keen, lively, mettlesome, nippy,… …

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  • 65spunky — Synonyms and related words: beany, bold, bulldoggish, combustible, courageous, dauntless, doughty, explosive, fearless, fiery, game, gamy, gritty, gutsy, gutty, hasty, high spirited, hot, hot tempered, hotheaded, mettlesome, nervy, passionate,… …

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  • 66volcanic — Synonyms and related words: agitable, bursting, combustible, detonating, edgy, emotional, emotionally unstable, eruptive, excitable, explodable, explosible, explosive, fierce, fiery, fulminating, furious, hasty, high mettled, high spirited, high… …

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  • 67excitable — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. sensitive, high strung, neurotic, easily excited, peevish, irritable, edgy, impatient, intolerant, moody, touchy, irascible, fiery, volatile, resentful, vehement, demonstrative, restless, uneasy, unquiet, mercurial,… …

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  • 68irritable — adj 1. testy, touchy, snappish, petulant, irascible, prickly; excitable, fiery, inflammable, hasty, quick, trigger happy; high strung, hot tempered, hot blooded, thin skinned, quick tempered; peevish, huffish, waspish, raspy, peppery, fretful;… …

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  • 69snappish — adj 1. irritable, testy, touchy, petulant, irascible, prickly; high strung, hot tempered, hot blooded, thin skinned, quick tempered, quick, hasty, trigger happy; peevish, huffish, waspish, raspy, peppery, fretful; huffy, edgy, on edge. 2. grumpy …

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  • 70testy — adj touchy, irritable, tetchy, snappish, petulant, irascible; peevish, huffish, waspish, raspy, peppery, fretful; huffy, edgy, on edge; grumpy, cranky, grouchy, snarling, crotchety, churlish, bearish; gruff, cantankerous, impatient, crabby;… …

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