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bad-tempered adj
angry, irritable, or ungracious ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
bad-tempered adjective irritable, cross, angry, tense, crabbed, fiery, grumbling, snarling, prickly, exasperated, edgy, snappy, sullen, touchy, surly, petulant, sulky, ill-tempered, irascible, cantankerous, tetchy, ratty (Brit. & N.Z. informal), testy, chippy (informal), fretful, grouchy (informal), querulous, peevish, crabby, huffy, dyspeptic, choleric, splenetic, crotchety (informal), oversensitive, snappish, ill-humoured, liverish, narky (Brit. slang), out of humour a crusty, bad-tempered, ill-humoured old gentleman happy, pleasant, cheerful, good-humoured, amiable, genial, affable, sanguine, good-tempered Translations bad-tempered [ˈbædˈtempəd] ADJ [person] (temporarily) → de mal humor; (permanently) → de mal genio, de mal carácter; [argument] → fuerte; [tone etc] → áspero, malhumorado bad-tempered adj → schlecht gelaunt attr, → übellaunig; to be bad-tempered → schlechte Laune haben; (as characteristic) → ein übellauniger Mensch sein bad-tempered [ˌbædˈtɛmpəd] adj → irascibile, irritabile; (look) → antipatico/a bad-tempered [ˌbædˈtɛmpəd] adj → irascibile, irritabile; (look) → antipatico/a How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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For she knew that in the lynx's lair was a litter of kittens, and she knew the lynx for a fierce, bad-tempered creature and a terrible fighter. Suppose that a man is irritable when vexed: he is not even spoken of as a bad-tempered man, when in such circumstances he loses his temper somewhat, but rather is said to be affected. The fellow is rather stupid and rather bad-tempered. |
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