ill-tempered

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: adjective

(formal) angry and rude or irritated, especially when this seems unreasonable: There were some ill-tempered exchanges during the committee meeting.

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This is a English–English dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.

Same word in other sources

ill-temperedEnglish›UyghurMain Dictionary ill-temperedEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary ill-temperedEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus

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ill-gotten ill humour illiberal illicit ill-informed illiterate ill-judged ill-mannered illness illogical ill-prepared

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ill-tempered