<p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>full of or tasting like pepper; hot; pungent.</li><li>of, relating to, or resembling pepper.</li><li>sharp or stinging: a peppery speech.</li><li>easily angered; bad-tempered; irritable; irascible: the peppery leader of a political faction.</li></ul><p><strong>Synonyms</strong></p><ul><li>spicy</li><li>biting</li><li>choleric</li><li>testy</li><li>hot-tempered</li></ul><p><strong>Antonyms</strong></p><ul><li>refined</li><li>genteel</li></ul>