ill-tempered

  • 41ill-humored — Synonyms and related words: argumental, argumentative, bad tempered, combative, contentious, controversial, dialectic, disputatious, eristic, evil tempered, ill affected, ill disposed, ill natured, ill tempered, litigious, logomachic, pilpulistic …

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  • 42ill-natured — adjective Cinderella s ill natured stepsisters Syn: mean, nasty, spiteful, malicious, disagreeable; poisonous, venomous, bitter; ill tempered, bad tempered, moody, irritable, irascible, surly, sullen, peevish, petulant, fractious …

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  • 43ill — {{11}}ill (adj.) c.1200, morally evil (other 13c. senses were malevolent, hurtful, unfortunate, difficult ), from O.N. illr ill, bad, of unknown origin. Not related to EVIL (Cf. evil). Main modern sense of sick, unhealthy, unwell is first… …

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  • 44-tempered — comb. form having a specified temper or disposition (bad tempered; hot tempered). Derivatives: temperedly adv. temperedness n. * * * comb. form having a specified temper or disposition ill tempered …

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  • 45ill-natured — adj 1. unkindly, unamiable, unfriendly, unaccommodating; quarrelsome, contentious, fractious, captious; hostile, antagonistic, inimical, ill willed; spiteful, malicious, malevolent, hateful. 2. ill tempered, ill humored, cross, irascible,… …

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  • 46ill-temperedly — adverb see ill tempered * * * ill temˈperedly adverb • • • Main Entry: ↑ill …

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  • 47ill-natured — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. cross, disagreeable, surly, spiteful; see irritable , sullen . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. moody, ill tempered, contentious, ill humored, grouchy, irritable, crabby, touchy, sour, surly, waspish, cantankerous. ANT …

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  • 48ill-humored — adj 1. irritable, out of sorts, snappish, snappy, huffish, huffy, curt, short, impatient; piqued, in a pique, in a fume, Archaic. in a pucker, Inf. in a stew; touchy, testy, thin skinned, waspish, peevish, petulant; cross, irascible, choleric,… …

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  • 49-tempered — combining form having a specified temper or disposition: ill tempered. Derivatives temperedly combining form. temperedness combining form …

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  • 50ill-temperedly — adverb see ill tempered …

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