Word.ws English Dictionary

evil-tempered

evil-tempered adjective: extremely bad-tempered.

Adjective

evil-tempered (comparative more evil-tempered, superlative most evil-tempered)

  1. Extremely bad-tempered.
    • I call him a fool; but he attends me still with the same unwearied smile, the same bland professional manner, the same neatly-trimmed red whiskers, till I begin to suspect that I am an ungrateful, evil-tempered invalid.1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Phantom Rickshaw”, in The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Tales, Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler and Co., page 10

Forms of evil-tempered

comparativemore evil-tempered
superlativemost evil-tempered

Questions about evil-tempered

What does evil-tempered mean?
Evil-tempered means extremely bad-tempered.
What part of speech is evil-tempered?
Evil-tempered is an adjective.

Words near evil-tempered in the dictionary

  1. evil-doers
  2. evil-eye
  3. evil-minded
  4. evil-mindedness
  5. evil-speaking
  6. evil-tempered
  7. evildoer
  8. evildoers
  9. evildoing
  10. evildoings
  11. eviler

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: evil-tempered (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “evil-tempered.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/evil-tempered. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.