- ill-humored
- adjective Date: 1687 surly, irritable • ill-humoredly adverb
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
ill-humored
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ill-humored — ill humoured ill humouredadj. ill natured; having a sour, disagreeable, or surly disposition. Opposite of {good natured}. Syn: crusty, curmudgeonly, gruff. [WordNet 1.5 +PJC] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
ill-humored — index petulant Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
ill-humored — adjective brusque and surly and forbidding crusty remarks a crusty old man his curmudgeonly temper gruff manner a gruff reply • Syn: ↑crusty, ↑curmudgeonly, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
ill-humored — ill hu·mored (ĭlʹhyo͞oʹmərd) adj. Irritable; surly. illʹ huʹmored·ly adv. * * * … Universalium
ill-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 … Moby Thesaurus
ill-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,… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
crusty curmudgeonly gruff ill-humored ill-humoured — Ill natured Ill na tured, a. 1. Of habitual bad temper; having an unpleasant disposition; surly; disagreeable; cross; peevish; fractious; crabbed; of people; as, an ill natured person; an ill natured disagreeable old man. Opposite of {good… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
ill-humored — adjective a) having a bad temper b) irritable in a surly manner … Wiktionary
ill-humored — (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. touchy, crabby, cross; see bothered , irritable , sullen … English dictionary for students
ill-humored — cross, in a bad mood, irritable … English contemporary dictionary
