| 单词 | bad tempered |
| 释义 | (adjective) a crusty, bad-tempered, ill-humoured character Synonyms irritable He had been waiting for an hour and was starting to feel irritable. cross Everyone was getting bored and cross. angry an angry rant tense crabbed fiery grumbling snarling prickly You know how prickly she can be. exasperated edgy She was nervous and edgy, waiting for the phone to ring. snappy He wasn't irritable or snappy. sullen The offenders lapsed into a sullen silence. touchy He is very touchy about his past. surly He behaves in a surly and rude manner towards me. petulant He whined like a petulant child. sulky a sulky adolescent ill-tempered You sound like an ill-tempered child. irascible He had an irascible temper. cantankerous You're just a cantankerous so-and-so. tetchy You always get tetchy when you're hungry. ratty (British, New Zealand, informal) I was beginning to get a bit ratty and fed up. tooshie (Australian, slang) testy Ben gets testy when he is hungry. chippy (informal) fretful an extremely fretful four-month old baby grouchy (informal) Grandfather is a grouchy old so-and-so. querulous a querulous male voice peevish Lack of sleep always made him peevish. crabby I'm extremely crabby when I'm hungry. huffy He always seemed so angry or huffy. dyspeptic choleric He plays a choleric old schoolmaster. splenetic retired military men with splenetic opinions crotchety (informal) a crotchety old man oversensitive snappish ill-humoured liverish By the end, I was liverish and nettled. narky (British, slang) out of humour Opposites happy , pleasant , cheerful , good-humoured , amiable , genial , affable , sanguine , good-tempered Additional synonymsin the sense of angry Definition feeling or expressing annoyance or rage an angry rant Synonyms furious, cross, heated, mad (informal), raging, provoked, outraged, annoyed, passionate, irritated, raving, hacked (off) (US, slang), choked, pissed (taboo, slang), infuriated, hot, incensed, enraged, ranting, exasperated, irritable, resentful, nettled, snappy, indignant, pissed off (taboo, slang), irate, tumultuous, displeased, uptight (informal), riled, up in arms, incandescent, ill-tempered, irascible, antagonized, waspish, piqued, hot under the collar (informal), on the warpath, hopping mad (informal), foaming at the mouth, choleric, splenetic, wrathful, at daggers drawn, in high dudgeon, as black as thunder, ireful, fit to be tied (slang), tooshie (Australian, slang), off the air (Australian, slang), aerated in the sense of cantankerous Definition quarrelsome or bad-tempered You're just a cantankerous so-and-so. Synonyms bad-tempered, contrary, perverse, irritable, crusty, grumpy, disagreeable, cranky (US, Canadian, Irish, informal), irascible, tetchy, ratty (British, New Zealand, informal), testy, quarrelsome, waspish, grouchy (informal), arsey (British, Australian, New Zealand, slang), peevish, crabby, choleric, crotchety (informal), ill-humoured, liverish, captious, difficultin the sense of choleric Definition bad-tempered He plays a choleric old schoolmaster. Synonyms bad-tempered, cross, angry, irritable, touchy, petulant, ill-tempered, irascible, tetchy, ratty (British, New Zealand, informal), tooshie (Australian, slang), testy, chippy (informal), hot-tempered, quick-tempered, chippy (informal) Synonyms of 'bad-tempered'bad-temperedExplore 'bad-tempered' in the dictionary |
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