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ill-tempered

ill-tempered adjective: synonym of bad-tempered.

Adjective

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

  1. Synonym of bad-tempered.
    • Dr. Evil: You know, I have one simple request. And that is to have sharks with frickin’ laser beams attached to their heads! Now evidently my cycloptic colleague informs me that that can’t be done. Can you remind me what I pay you people for, honestly? Throw me a bone here! What do we have?
      Number...1997, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (film)
    • Spain’s acting prime minister, the socialist leader Pedro Sánchez, has a fresh, if fraught, shot at returning to power after his conservative rival Alberto Núñez Feijóo failed in his attempt to take office in an ill-tempered investiture debate that followed July’s inconclusive general election.2023 September 29, Sam Jones, “Alberto Núñez Feijóo fails to win Spanish MPs’ backing to become PM”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
    Synonyms:
    bad-tempered

ill-tempered meaning in Tamil and Malayalam

ill-tempered in Tamil

எளிதில் எரிச்சலடையும்

ill-tempered in Malayalam

bad-tempered, short-tempered, ill-humoured
മൂക്കത്തുശുണ്ഠിയുള്ള, വാമശീലമായ, പെട്ടെന്നു ക്ഷോഭിക്കുന്ന, സദാ കോപിയായ, മുൻകോപമുള്ള, ക്ഷമയില്ലാത്ത

Synonyms of ill-tempered

Forms of ill-tempered

comparativemore ill-tempered
superlativemost ill-tempered

Origin of ill-tempered

From ill + tempered.

Words formed from ill-tempered

Questions about ill-tempered

What does ill-tempered mean?
Ill-tempered means synonym of bad-tempered.
What is ill-tempered in Tamil?
Ill-tempered in Tamil is எளிதில் எரிச்சலடையும். See Ill-tempered meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is ill-tempered?
Ill-tempered is an adjective.

Words near ill-tempered in the dictionary

  1. ill-seen
  2. ill-sorted
  3. ill-spent
  4. ill-starred
  5. ill-suited
  6. ill-tempered
  7. ill-temperedly
  8. ill-temperedness
  9. ill-thought-out
  10. ill-thrift
  11. ill-timed

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