ILL-NATURED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ill-natured mean? 

• ILL-NATURED (adjective)
  The adjective ILL-NATURED has 1 sense:

1. having an irritable and unpleasant disposition

  Familiarity information: ILL-NATURED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ILL-NATURED (adjective)

Meaning:

Having an irritable and unpleasant disposition

Similar:

dark; dour; glowering; glum; moody; morose; saturnine; sour; sullen (showing a brooding ill humor)

snappish; snappy (tending to speak irritably)

nagging; shrewish (continually complaining or faultfinding)

shirty; snorty ((British informal) ill-tempered or annoyed)

misogynous (hating women in particular)

misanthropic; misanthropical (hating mankind in general)

huffish; sulky (sullen or moody)

surly; ugly (inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace)

currish (resembling a cur; snarling and rude)

crusty; curmudgeonly; gruff; ill-humored; ill-humoured (brusque and surly and forbidding)

cranky; fractious; irritable; nettlesome; peckish; peevish; pettish; petulant; scratchy; techy; testy; tetchy (easily irritated or annoyed)

bad-tempered; crabbed; crabby; cross; fussy; grouchy; grumpy; ill-tempered (perversely irritable)

churlish (having a bad disposition; surly)

choleric; hot-tempered; hotheaded; irascible; quick-tempered; short-tempered (quickly aroused to anger)

cantankerous; crotchety; ornery (having a difficult and contrary disposition)

bristly; prickly; splenetic; waspish (very irritable)

atrabilious; bilious; dyspeptic; liverish (irritable as if suffering from indigestion)

vinegarish; vinegary (having a sour disposition; ill-tempered)

spoiled; spoilt (having the character or disposition harmed by pampering or oversolicitous attention)

Also:

unpleasant (disagreeable to the senses, to the mind, or feelings)

disagreeable (not to your liking)

Attribute:

nature (the complex of emotional and intellectual attributes that determine a person's characteristic actions and reactions)

Antonym:

good-natured (having an easygoing and cheerful disposition)