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Definition/Meaning

(adjective)

easily annoyed, irritated, or angered, irritable and ill-tempered in manner;

e.g. If he weren't so ill-humored, he would be much more pleasant to talk to.

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Similar Words

Acid

Bearish

Bilious

Bloody-minded

Brooding

Cross-grained

Disagreeable

Fractious

Fretful

Ornery

Sorehead

Splenetic

Stroppy

Surly

Tempered

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Opposite Words

Affable

Agreeable

Amiable

Amicable

Benign

Bubbly

Calm

Cheerful

Cheery

Congenial

Content

Conversable

Effervescent

Exuberant

Friendly

Gentle

Glad

Good-natured

Good-tempered

Gracious

Happy

High-spirited

Joyful

Kind

Lighthearted

Lively

Long-suffering

Mellow

Patient

Placid

Pleasant

Serene

Sweet

Tempered

Tolerant

Vivacious

Well-disposed

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Related Words

Aggressive

Agonistic

Anal

Angry

Annoyed

Apoplectic

Argumentative

Assaultive

Ballistic

Bellicose

Belligerent

Bothered

Chippy

Choleric

Combative

Contentious

Contrary

Controversial

Crabby

Cranky

Cross

Crotchety

Depressed

Discordant

Disputatious

Dour

Exasperated

Feisty

Fiery

Furious

Fussy

Glum

Grouchy

Grumpy

Hopping

Horn-mad

Hot

Indignant

Infuriate

Irascible

Irate

Irritable

Irritated

Livid

Mad

Militant

Morose

Peevish

Peppery

Perverse

Petulant

Polemic

Pouty

Prickly

Pugnacious

Quarrelsome

Querulous

Quick-tempered

Rabid

Raspy

Ratty

Riley

Shirty

Short-tempered

Snappish

Snappy

Snarky

Snippety

Snippy

Sore

Stuffy

Sulky

Sullen

Surly

Tempered

Testy

Touchy

Truculent

Upset

Uptight

Warlike

Wasp

Waspish

Wrathful

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