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ill-natured

ill-natured adjective: synonym of bad-tempered: easily or characteristically angered.

Adjective

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

  1. Synonym of bad-tempered: easily or characteristically angered.
    Synonyms:
    bad-tempered
  2. Synonym of malevolent: wishing bad upon others.
    Synonyms:
    malevolent

ill-natured meaning in Tamil, Malayalam and Sanskrit

ill-natured in Tamil

வெடுவெடுப்பான, சீறிவிழுகிற

ill-natured in Malayalam

spiteful, mean, nasty
ദുർഗ്ഗുണമുള്ള, ദുഷ്പ്രകൃത, ശുണ്ഠിയായ, മൂർഖമായ, വൃത്തികെട്ടപെരുമാറ്റമുള്ള, കർക്കശപ്രകൃതമായ

ill-natured in Sanskrit

ill-natured or harsh-speaking man
सृगाल sṛgālá

Synonyms of ill-natured

Forms of ill-natured

comparativemore ill-natured
superlativemost ill-natured

Words formed from ill-natured

Questions about ill-natured

What does ill-natured mean?
Ill-natured means synonym of bad-tempered: easily or characteristically angered.
What is ill-natured in Tamil?
Ill-natured in Tamil is வெடுவெடுப்பான, சீறிவிழுகிற. See Ill-natured meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is ill-natured?
Ill-natured is an adjective.

Words near ill-natured in the dictionary

  1. ill-looking
  2. ill-luck
  3. ill-mannered
  4. ill-matched
  5. ill-named
  6. ill-natured
  7. ill-naturedly
  8. ill-naturedness
  9. ill-omened
  10. ill-placed
  11. ill-posed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ill-natured (page history and authors); ill-natured (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ill-natured (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); सृगाल (Sanskrit) (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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