English > ill-natured: 1 sense > adjective 1| Meaning | Having an irritable and unpleasant disposition. |
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| Attribute of | nature | The complex of emotional and intellectual attributes that determine a person's characteristic actions and reactions |
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| Narrower | atrabilious, bilious, dyspeptic, liverish | irritable as if suffering from indigestion |
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| bristly, prickly, splenetic, waspish | Very irritable |
| cantankerous, crotchety, ornery | Having a difficult and contrary disposition |
| choleric, irascible, hotheaded, hot-tempered, quick-tempered, short-tempered | quickly aroused to anger |
| churlish | Having a bad disposition |
| crabbed, crabby, cross, fussy, grouchy, grumpy, bad-tempered, ill-tempered | Annoyed and irritable |
| cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peevish, peckish, pettish, petulant, scratchy, testy, tetchy, techy | easily irritated or annoyed |
| crusty, curmudgeonly, gruff, ill-humored, ill-humoured | brusque and surly and forbidding |
| currish | resembling a cur |
| dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen | showing a brooding ill humor |
| disagreeable | unpleasant to interact with |
| huffish, sulky | sullen or moody |
| misanthropic, misanthropical | hating mankind in general |
| misogynous, misogynistic | hating women in particular |
| shirty, snorty | (British informal) ill-tempered or annoyed |
| shrewish, nagging | continually complaining or faultfinding |
| snappish, snappy | Apt to speak irritably |
| spoiled, spoilt | Having the character or disposition harmed by pampering or oversolicitous attention |
| surly, ugly | Inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace |
| vinegary, vinegarish | Having a sour disposition |
| See also | unpleasant | Disagreeable to the senses, to the mind, or feelings |
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| Opposite | good-natured | Having an easygoing and cheerful disposition |
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