impetuosity, vehemence; boisterousness &c adj.; turbulence; impatience,
intolerance, nonendurance†; irritability &c (irascibility) 901; itching
&c (desire) 865; wincing; disquiet, disquietude; restlessness; fidgets,
fidgetiness; agitation &c (irregular motion) 315.
trepidation, perturbation, ruffle, hurry, fuss, flurry; fluster,
flutter; pother, stew, ferment; whirl; buck fever; hurry-skurry†, thrill
&c (feeling) 821; state of excitement, fever of excitement; transport.
passion, excitement, flush, heat; fever, heat; fire, flame, fume,
blood boiling; tumult; effervescence, ebullition; boiling over; whiff,
gust, story, tempest; scene, breaking out, burst, fit, paroxysm,
explosion; outbreak, outburst; agony.
violence &c 173; fierceness &c adj.; rage, fury, furor, furore†,
desperation, madness, distraction, raving, delirium; phrensy†, frenzy,
hysterics; intoxication; tearing passion, raging passion; anger &c 900.
fascination, infatuation, fanaticism; Quixotism, Quixotry; tete
montee [Fr.].
V. be impatient &c adj.; not be able to bear &c 826; bear ill, wince,
chafe, champ a bit; be in a stew &c n.; be out of all patience, fidget,
fuss, not have a wink of sleep; toss on one's pillow.
lose one's temper &c 900; break out, burst out, fly out; go off,
fly off, fly off at a tangent, fly off the handle, lose one's cool
[Coll.]; explode, flare up, flame up, fire up, burst into a flame, take
fire, fire, burn; boil, boil over; foam, fume, rage, rave, rant, tear;
go wild, run wild, run mad, go into hysterics; run riot, run amuck;
battre la campagne [Fr.], faire le diable a quatre [Fr.], play the
deuce.
Adj. excitable, easily excited, in an excitable state; high-strung;
irritable &c (irascible) 901; impatient, intolerant.
feverish, febrile, hysterical; delirious, mad, moody, maggoty-
headed.
unquiet, mercurial, electric, galvanic, hasty, hurried, restless,
fidgety, fussy; chafing &c v.. startlish†, mettlesome, high-mettled†,
skittish.
vehement, demonstrative, violent, wild, furious, fierce, fiery,
hot-headed, madcap.
overzealous, enthusiastic, impassioned, fanatical; rabid &c
(eager) 865.
rampant, clamorous, uproarious, turbulent, tempestuous,
tumultuary†, boisterous.
impulsive, impetuous, passionate; uncontrolled, uncontrollable;
ungovernable, irrepressible, stanchless†, inextinguishable, burning,
simmering, volcanic, ready to burst forth, volatile.
excited, exciting &c 824.
Int. pish!, pshaw!,
Phr. noli me tangere [Lat.]; filled with fury, rapt, inspir'd
[Collins]; maggiore fretta minore atto [It].