short temper; impatience; irritability
Describes a personality trait of being quick to anger or easily frustrated. Often used in expressions like 短気を起こす (to lose one's temper) or 短気は損気 (haste makes waste).
He has a short temper and gets angry quickly.
Let's wait a little longer without losing our temper.
He quickly lost his temper and shouted.
I feel like I've become more short-tempered as I've gotten older.
She's a short-tempered person who gets irritated easily.
短気 describes a quick temper or lack of patience, the opposite disposition of 忍耐's calm endurance.
短気 (short-tempered) is pronounced the same as 短期 but means impatience or a quick temper, unrelated to 短期間's meaning of a brief time span.
短気 (short-tempered, quick to anger) looks similar with its 気 ending but describes an irritable temperament, the opposite of the calm 呑気.
短気 means quick to anger or short-tempered, whereas 気が早い is about acting or deciding hastily without necessarily involving anger.