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ill-behaved

ill-behaved adjective: badly behaved; exhibiting bad behaviour.

Adjective

ill-behaved (comparative more ill-behaved, superlative most ill-behaved)

  1. badly behaved; exhibiting bad behaviour.
    • That boy is ill-behaved: he is always naughty.
    Synonyms:
    horrible
    Antonyms:
    well-behaved

ill-behaved meaning in Hindi

ill-behaved in Hindi

ill-behaved, vicious, depraved, debauched, of bad character, of immoral conduct
बदचलन badcalan

Synonyms of ill-behaved

Antonyms

Forms of ill-behaved

comparativemore ill-behaved
superlativemost ill-behaved
alternative formill behaved

Origin of ill-behaved

From ill + behaved.

Questions about ill-behaved

What does ill-behaved mean?
Ill-behaved means badly behaved; exhibiting bad behaviour.
What is ill-behaved in Hindi?
Ill-behaved in Hindi is बदचलन (badcalan). See Ill-behaved meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is ill-behaved?
Ill-behaved is an adjective.

Words near ill-behaved in the dictionary

  1. ill-advised
  2. ill-advisedly
  3. ill-affected
  4. ill-assorted
  5. ill-begotten
  6. ill-behaved
  7. ill-being
  8. ill-boding
  9. ill-bred
  10. ill-chosen
  11. ill-concealed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ill-behaved (page history and authors); बदचलन (Hindi) (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.

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