Ill-tempered

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Ill-tempered \Ill`-tem"pered\, a.
     1. Of bad temper; grouchy; morose; crabbed; sour; peevish;
        fretful; quarrelsome.
  
     Syn: crabbed, crabby, cross, fussy, fussbudgety, grouchy,
          grumpy, bad-tempered.


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     2. Unhealthy; ill-conditioned. [Obs.]
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              So ill-tempered I am grown, that I am afraid I shall
              catch cold, while all the world is afraid to melt
              away.                                 --Pepys.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  ill-tempered
       adj : perversely irritable [syn: {crabbed}, {crabby}, {cross}, {fussy},
              {grouchy}, {grumpy}, {bad-tempered}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  19 Moby Thesaurus words for "ill-tempered":
     bad-tempered, crabbed, dyspeptic, fractious, hot-tempered, huffy,
     ill-humored, ill-natured, irritable, peevish, petulant, querulous,
     rusty, shrewish, snappish, sour, surly, vixenish, waspish