Short-tempered vs Sulky - What's the difference?
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Of or pertaining to a person who is easily angered, who is known to frequently lose his or her temper.
silent and withdrawn after being upset
* 1865 , (Lewis Carroll), (w, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)
A low two-wheeled cart, used in harness racing.
Any carriage seating only the driver.
As adjectives the difference between short-tempered and sulky
is that short-tempered is of or pertaining to a person who is easily angered, who is known to frequently lose his or her temper while sulky is silent and withdrawn after being upset.As a noun sulky is
a low two-wheeled cart, used in harness racing.short-tempered
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- She is so short-tempered that people avoid her company.
Synonyms
* hotheaded * quick-temperedAntonyms
* cool (in the sense of calm or relaxed) * cool-headed * even-temperedsulky
English
Adjective
(er)- the sulky child
- The first question of course was, how to get dry again: they had a consultation about this, and after a few minutes it seemed quite natural to Alice to find herself talking familiarly with them, as if she had known them all her life. Indeed, she had quite a long argument with the Lory, who at last turned sulky , and would only say, “I’m older than you, and must know better.” And this Alice would not allow, without knowing how old it was, and, as the Lory positively refused to tell its age, there was no more to be said.