Ill-tempered

Synonyms for "ill-tempered" (52 found)

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Closest matches (11)

bad-tempered bilious cantankerous crabbed

Adjective(4 words)

bad-tempered cantankerous choleric crabbit

Adjective(3 words)

bad-tempered crabbed crabby

Strong matches (15)

Adjective(4 words)

cross fussy grouchy grumpy

disagreeable disgruntled dyspeptic fractious fretful hot-tempered huffy ill-humored ill-natured

Adjective(2 words)

Related words (26)

irritable mean moody nasty peevish perverse petulant querulous quick-tempered rusty shrewish snappish sour sullen surly testy truculent ugly vixenish waspish

Adjective(6 words)

moody morose ornery ratty splenetic sullen

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Zebras become progressively more ill-tempered as they age, which militates against their domestication.

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The King now understood how the Queen he had had for some time past had been so ill-tempered. He at once had a sack drawn over her head and made her be stoned to death, and after that torn in pieces by untamed horses.

Source: tatoeba (3882153)

Sociopaths are ill-tempered.

Source: tatoeba (9774971)

Sociopaths are impulsive and ill-tempered.

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