What is another word for bad tempered?
1351 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ bˈad tˈɛmpəd], [ bˈad tˈɛmpəd], [ b_ˈa_d t_ˈɛ_m_p_ə_d]Table of Contents
Similar words for bad tempered:- bad-tempered (adjective)
- bitchy (adjective)
- cantankerous (adjective)
- crabby (adjective)
- crabby/crabbed (adjective)
- crotchety (adjective)
- disgruntled (adjective)
- grumpy (adjective)
- ill-tempered (adjective)
- mean (adjective)
- peevish (adjective)
- perverse (adjective)
- petulant (adjective)
- quarrelsome (adjective)
- short (adjective)
- sullen (adjective)
- testy (adjective)
- touchy (adjective)
- truculent (adjective)
- other synonyms
- adj.
- other relevant words
Synonyms for Bad tempered:
adj.
•bad-tempered (adjective) •bitchy (adjective) •cantankerous (adjective)- contrary,
- sour,
- obstinate,
- bad-tempered,
- choleric,
- vinegarish,
- critical,
- stuffy,
- bearish,
- crusty,
- cross,
- dour,
- vinegary,
- ornery,
- captious,
- prickly,
- ill-natured,
- snappish,
- morose,
- crotchety,
- quarrelsome,
- irascible,
- huffy,
- disagreeable,
- ill-humored,
- perverse.
- acrid,
- saturnine,
- unsociable,
- cynical,
- harsh,
- fretful,
- brusque,
- acrimonious,
- blunt,
- trying,
- nasty-tempered,
- tart,
- misanthropic,
- acid,
- churlish,
- snappy,
- tough,
- ill-tempered,
- awkward,
- glum,
- difficult,
- gloomy.
- testy,
- peevish,
- petulant,
- dissatisfied,
- sullen,
- grouchy,
- annoyed,
- Griping,
- peeved,
- vexed,
- Crabbing,
- sulky,
- kicking,
- put out,
- malcontent,
- disappointed,
- discontented,
- irritated,
- irritable,
- bellyaching,
- crabby,
- discontent,
- cranky,
- displeased,
- grumpy.
- down,
- callous,
- treacherous,
- liverish,
- rotten,
- vile,
- ignoble,
- rugged,
- knavish,
- rough,
- unfriendly,
- perfidious,
- shameless,
- scurrilous,
- pesky,
- malign,
- troublesome,
- unpleasant,
- snide,
- dishonorable,
- ugly,
- unscrupulous,
- dirty,
- touch,
- hard,
- formidable,
- lousy,
- sinking,
- vexatious,
- infamous,
- low-down and dirty,
- despicable,
- contemptible,
- evil,
- the lowest,
- hard-nosed,
- dangerous,
- malicious.
- caviling,
- complaining,
- angry,
- childish,
- short-tempered,
- carping,
- whining,
- tetchy,
- ogre,
- out-of-sorts,
- Fault-finding,
- cussed,
- mean,
- crabbed,
- growling,
- Fretting,
- pertinacious.
- delinquent,
- stubborn,
- obdurate,
- headstrong,
- contumacious,
- deviant,
- unmanageable,
- refractory,
- abnormal,
- unyielding,
- villainous,
- intransigent,
- miscreant,
- mulish,
- pigheaded,
- corrupt,
- self-willed,
- disobedient,
- depraved,
- willful,
- degenerate,
- unhealthy,
- intractable,
- wayward,
- contradictory,
- wicked,
- nefarious,
- unreasonable,
- erring,
- rebellious,
- capricious,
- dogged.
- combative,
- war,
- pugnacious,
- argumentative,
- brawling,
- ructious,
- contentious,
- cat-and-dog,
- bellicose,
- excitable,
- disputatious,
- gladiatorial,
- have chip on shoulder,
- tempestuous,
- belligerent,
- turbulent,
- impassioned,
- violent,
- passionate,
- dissentious,
- unruly,
- litigious,
- hasty,
- fiery,
- hotheaded,
- thin-skinned.
- direct,
- impolite,
- brief,
- gruff,
- unceremonious,
- curt,
- Short-spoken,
- uncivil,
- terse,
- breviloquent,
- Snippety,
- offhand,
- straight,
- inconsiderate,
- rude,
- snippy,
- thoughtless.
- heavy,
- dull,
- hostile,
- glowering,
- cheerless,
- out of sorts,
- dismal,
- somber,
- inert,
- tenebrific,
- tenebrous,
- malevolent,
- sulking,
- pouty,
- silent,
- sourpussed,
- pessimistic,
- frowning.
- hypersensitive,
- tricky,
- unpredictable,
- hazardous,
- volatile,
- precarious,
- wound up,
- risky,
- jumpy,
- temperamental,
- unsafe,
- wired up,
- Perturbable,
- bundle of nerves,
- delicate,
- ticklish,
- oversensitive,
- sensitive,
- dicey.
- abusive,
- savage,
- contumelious,
- inhuman,
- inhumane,
- caustic,
- aggressive,
- vituperative,
- bullying,
- opprobrious,
- trenchant,
- mordant,
- scathing,
- brutal,
- militant,
- antagonistic,
- vituperous,
- scrappy,
- frightening,
- terrifying,
- Browbeating,
- invective,
- intimidating,
- fierce,
- defiant,
- Cowing,
- barbarous,
- ferocious,
- mordacious,
- terrorizing.
Other synonyms:
•adj. •Other relevant words:- abbreviated,
- aberrant,
- abrasive,
- abrupt,
- acerb,
- acerbic,
- acetify,
- acetose,
- acetous,
- acidic,
- acidify,
- acidity,
- acidulate,
- acidulent,
- acidulous,
- activist,
- acuate,
- acute,
- acutely,
- adamant,
- adamantine,
- address,
- adjoin,
- adverse,
- advert,
- affect,
- agonistic,
- agonistical,
- aim,
- airless,
- alert,
- allergic,
- allude,
- anaesthetise,
- anaesthetize,
- anesthetise,
- anesthetize,
- annoying,
- antipathetic,
- antipathetical,
- approximate,
- approximative,
- arch,
- ardent,
- arduous,
- aroused,
- astute,
- at odds,
- atrocious,
- authoritarian,
- average,
- awful,
- backbreaking,
- bad,
- badmouth,
- baffle,
- baffling,
- barbarian,
- barbaric,
- barbed,
- barbellate,
- base,
- bastardly,
- battleful,
- battler,
- bawd,
- bear on,
- bear upon,
- beast,
- beastly,
- beggarly,
- begrime,
- bellyacher,
- bemire,
- benumb,
- bestial,
- big,
- bilious,
- bilk,
- biting,
- bitter,
- bizarre,
- black,
- blast,
- blistering,
- bloody-minded,
- blue,
- blustery,
- boisterous,
- bolt down,
- boot,
- boring,
- bother,
- bothersome,
- bounderish,
- bowelless,
- bowl over,
- brainish,
- briary,
- bribe,
- briery,
- bring out,
- brisk,
- bristled,
- bristly,
- broken,
- browned off,
- brusk,
- brute,
- brutish,
- bullet-headed,
- bullheaded,
- bully,
- bumpy,
- bunglesome,
- burred,
- burry,
- buy,
- calculate,
- calloused,
- candid,
- case,
- catchy,
- cattie,
- cauterise,
- cauterize,
- chanceful,
- chancy,
- channelise,
- channelize,
- character,
- cheating,
- cheesed off,
- chicken,
- churning,
- clayey,
- clear-cut,
- cloggy,
- close,
- cloud,
- clumsy,
- coarse,
- cocotte,
- cold,
- cold-blooded,
- colly,
- combatant,
- come to,
- competitive,
- complainer,
- complaintive,
- concentrated,
- concern,
- condemnable,
- conduct,
- conflicting,
- confounding,
- confused,
- consecutive,
- consume,
- contact,
- contaminating,
- contrarious,
- corrosive,
- corrupted,
- counter,
- cover,
- crafty,
- crank,
- criminal,
- crimson,
- crisp,
- crisscross,
- crooked,
- crossbreed,
- crossbreeding,
- crossing,
- crown of thorns,
- crucify,
- crude,
- cruel,
- crusted,
- crustlike,
- cumbersome,
- cunning,
- curious,
- cut across,
- cut down,
- cut through,
- cutaneous senses,
- cutthroat,
- cyprian,
- damp,
- dampen,
- dapper,
- dark,
- dashing,
- daunting,
- deaden,
- deadening,
- deadly,
- debase,
- debauch,
- debauched,
- decayed,
- decisive,
- defeated,
- defile,
- degraded,
- demolish,
- demon,
- demoralise,
- demoralize,
- dense,
- deplorable,
- deprave,
- depressed,
- depressing,
- derangement,
- derelict,
- deteriorate,
- deviate,
- devolve,
- devour,
- dictatorial,
- dim,
- dingy,
- dire,
- directly,
- direful,
- disaffected,
- discomfit,
- discomfited,
- discommode,
- discompose,
- disconcert,
- disconsolate,
- discontentedness,
- discontentment,
- discourteous,
- discriminating,
- disdainful,
- disgraceful,
- disgustful,
- disgusting,
- dishonest,
- dishonourable,
- disoblige,
- disorder,
- disordered,
- dispirited,
- disputative,
- disquieted,
- disruptive,
- dissipated,
- dissolute,
- distasteful,
- distinct,
- distressed,
- disturb,
- disturbance,
- disturbed,
- divisive,
- dodgy,
- dose,
- dot,
- douse,
- down feather,
- down in the mouth,
- down pat,
- downcast,
- downhearted,
- downward,
- downwardly,
- downwards,
- drab,
- drag through the mud,
- dread,
- dreaded,
- dreadful,
- drear,
- dreary,
- drink down,
- drop,
- dumb,
- dyspeptic,
- eccentric person,
- elusive,
- embarrassing,
- enceinte,
- encrusted,
- endanger,
- engineer,
- entail,
- equal,
- erosive,
- erratic,
- error-prone,
- evilness,
- excessive,
- expectant,
- explosive,
- expose,
- extemporaneous,
- extemporary,
- extempore,
- extend,
- extend to,
- factious,
- fag,
- false,
- fancy woman,
- fast,
- fast-growing,
- faultfinding,
- fearful,
- fearsome,
- feeling,
- feisty,
- fell,
- feral,
- ferment,
- fervent,
- fervid,
- fickle,
- fidgety,
- fiend,
- fighter,
- filthy,
- fine-tune,
- finespun,
- firmly,
- flake,
- flakey,
- flaky,
- flaming,
- flat,
- fleshy,
- flint,
- flinty,
- foil,
- foiled,
- forbidding,
- forthright,
- foul,
- foxy,
- fragile,
- frail,
- frank,
- freakish,
- freaky,
- free-spoken,
- frightful,
- frosty,
- froward,
- frustrate,
- frustrated,
- full-strength,
- funny,
- furious,
- furnace lining,
- furrowed,
- fussy,
- galling,
- geek,
- get across,
- get over,
- ghost,
- gloomful,
- glooming,
- go through,
- goon,
- granitic,
- grating,
- grave,
- gravelly,
- gravid,
- great,
- grievous,
- grim,
- grime,
- growl,
- grueling,
- gruelling,
- grumble,
- grumbler,
- guide,
- guileful,
- harassed,
- hard-bitten,
- hard-boiled,
- hard-hitting,
- hardheaded,
- hardly,
- harlot,
- harried,
- haughty,
- have in mind,
- head,
- headlong,
- heavily,
- heterosexual,
- heterosexual person,
- high-risk,
- high-strung,
- highly strung,
- hint,
- ho-hum,
- hoarse,
- hold out,
- homophile,
- hood,
- hoodlum,
- hooligan,
- horrendous,
- horrible,
- horrific,
- horrifying,
- hot-tempered,
- huffish,
- husky,
- hybrid,
- hybridisation,
- hybridise,
- hybridization,
- hybridize,
- hybridizing,
- hypersensitised,
- hypersensitized,
- icky,
- igneous,
- ignominious,
- ill at ease,
- ill-affected,
- ill-bred,
- ill-chosen,
- ill-famed,
- ill-gotten,
- ill-humoured,
- ill-mannered,
- immorality,
- impact,
- impenetrable,
- imperious,
- impetuous,
- impish,
- implike,
- imply,
- impromptu,
- impulsive,
- inapt,
- incisive,
- incommode,
- incompatible,
- inconvenience,
- indifferent,
- indocile,
- indurate,
- inept,
- inexorable,
- infantile,
- inglorious,
- inimical,
- iniquity,
- inordinate,
- insalubrious,
- insecure,
- insensate,
- intemperate,
- intemperately,
- intend,
- interbreed,
- interbreeding,
- intersect,
- intimidation,
- irregular,
- irritating,
- issue,
- itchy,
- jaunty,
- jittery,
- jolting,
- jolty,
- jot,
- juvenile delinquent,
- keen,
- kick,
- knifelike,
- knock over,
- knockout,
- knotty,
- labored,
- laborious,
- laboured,
- laconic,
- lady of pleasure,
- land,
- large,
- lead,
- leaden,
- left,
- left over,
- leftover,
- legal brief,
- lemonlike,
- lemony,
- libertine,
- lienal,
- lineal,
- lively,
- livery,
- loathly,
- loathsome,
- lordly,
- low,
- low-spirited,
- lowbred,
- lowering,
- lumbering,
- mad,
- madcap,
- malefic,
- maneuver,
- manoeuvre,
- mark,
- marked-up,
- mastered,
- mastermind,
- match,
- mean value,
- meanspirited,
- medium,
- meet,
- melancholy,
- merry,
- miffed,
- mingy,
- misanthropical,
- mischievous,
- misdirect,
- miserly,
- mite,
- moaner,
- monster,
- muddied,
- muddy,
- muffle,
- muffled,
- mum,
- murmur,
- murmuring,
- mute,
- muted,
- mutter,
- muttering,
- mutually exclusive,
- nance,
- natty,
- natural,
- nauseating,
- nauseous,
- neat,
- needlelike,
- neglectful,
- nerve-racking,
- nerve-wracking,
- nervy,
- nettled,
- nettlesome,
- neutral,
- nipping,
- nippy,
- noisome,
- noncompliant,
- nonconcentric,
- notorious,
- numb,
- obtuse,
- oddball,
- off,
- off-key,
- offensive,
- offhanded,
- offhandedly,
- opposite,
- orchestrate,
- organise,
- organize,
- outlandish,
- outre,
- outspoken,
- overdue,
- overhasty,
- overstrung,
- overthrow,
- overturn,
- overturned,
- overweight,
- pachydermatous,
- pall,
- pane,
- pansy,
- parlous,
- partake,
- pass over,
- peckish,
- peculiar,
- penetrating,
- penetrative,
- perfervid,
- peril,
- perilous,
- persistent,
- pertain,
- perturbation,
- pervert,
- perverted,
- pestered,
- pestering,
- pestiferous,
- piercing,
- pile,
- pillory,
- pinch,
- pissed off,
- pixilated,
- place,
- plaguey,
- plaguy,
- plainspoken,
- point,
- point-blank,
- poisonous,
- polish,
- ponderous,
- poof,
- poove,
- pop,
- pouf,
- pour down,
- practical,
- pragmatic,
- prankish,
- precipitant,
- precipitate,
- precipitous,
- prideful,
- primitive,
- problematic,
- problematical,
- profane,
- profligate,
- profound,
- publish,
- puckish,
- pull down,
- pungent,
- punic,
- punishing,
- punk,
- push down,
- put under,
- queasy,
- queen,
- raffish,
- raging,
- rakish,
- rambunctious,
- rancid,
- raring,
- rasping,
- raspy,
- rattling,
- raw,
- reach,
- recalcitrant,
- red,
- redoubtable,
- refer,
- refine,
- relate,
- release,
- remaining,
- remiss,
- repellant,
- repellent,
- repelling,
- reprehensible,
- reprobate,
- restive,
- restless,
- retire,
- revengeful,
- reverse,
- revolting,
- riled,
- riotous,
- rival,
- robustious,
- rocky,
- roiled,
- roiling,
- roily,
- rotted,
- rough in,
- rough out,
- roughly,
- roughneck,
- roughshod,
- rowdy,
- ruffian,
- ruffianly,
- rum,
- rumble,
- rumbling,
- rumbustious,
- rummy,
- scotch,
- scrapper,
- scratchy,
- scupper,
- searching,
- self-contradictory,
- send,
- sense of touch,
- sensible,
- sensitised,
- sensitized,
- serious,
- severe,
- severely,
- shaky,
- shameful,
- sharp-worded,
- sharply,
- shoddy,
- short,
- shrewd,
- shrill,
- sickening,
- signature,
- signify,
- sinful,
- singular,
- sinking feeling,
- skanky,
- skin senses,
- slick,
- slimy,
- slippery,
- slow,
- sluggish,
- sly,
- smother,
- smutty,
- snarled,
- sneering,
- sniffy,
- sniveller,
- sober,
- soft,
- softened,
- soggy,
- soil,
- soiled,
- sombre,
- sonorous,
- sordid,
- sore,
- sorry,
- sound,
- soundless,
- soupcon,
- sourish,
- sourness,
- span,
- spanking,
- speck,
- speculative,
- spiffy,
- spiny,
- spiritualist,
- splenic,
- spoil,
- sporting lady,
- spot,
- spruce,
- square,
- squawker,
- stand for,
- stark,
- state of war,
- steamed,
- steer,
- sticky,
- still,
- stinking,
- stinky,
- stir,
- stodgy,
- stony,
- stormy,
- straight person,
- straightaway,
- straightforward,
- strange,
- street fighter,
- stressful,
- stretch forth,
- stretch out,
- strong,
- strong-armer,
- stung,
- sturdy,
- subvert,
- sulfurous,
- sully,
- sulphurous,
- supercilious,
- superman,
- supersensitised,
- supersensitive,
- supersensitized,
- surd,
- swage,
- swaggering,
- sweep,
- tacit,
- tactile sensation,
- tactual sensation,
- taint,
- tainted,
- take,
- take aim,
- tangy,
- target,
- tartness,
- tearaway,
- tearing,
- teasing,
- techy,
- tedious,
- tenacious,
- tender,
- tenebrious,
- terrible,
- terrific,
- terrorisation,
- terrorization,
- thickened,
- think,
- think of,
- thorny,
- threatening,
- thudding,
- thug,
- thwart,
- thwarted,
- thwartwise,
- tight,
- tinct,
- tinge,
- tint,
- tip over,
- tippy,
- tiresome,
- toilsome,
- tone down,
- torpid,
- torrid,
- toss off,
- touch modality,
- touch on,
- touch sensation,
- touch-and-go,
- touching,
- toughened,
- toughie,
- trace,
- track,
- traduce,
- train,
- transversal,
- transverse,
- traverse,
- tricksy,
- trigger-happy,
- trouble,
- troubled,
- true,
- tumultuous,
- turn,
- turn over,
- turned,
- turnover,
- type,
- unaired,
- unbent,
- unblushing,
- unbowed,
- uncaring,
- unceremonial,
- uncheerful,
- uncivilised,
- uncivilized,
- unclean,
- uncoiled,
- uncongenial,
- unconsidered,
- uncontrollable,
- uncorrectable,
- uncut,
- underbred,
- understood,
- undue,
- uneasy,
- unenviable,
- uneven,
- unexpended,
- ungainly,
- ungentle,
- ungovernable,
- unhealthful,
- unholy,
- unmannered,
- unmannerly,
- unmatched,
- unmated,
- unmediated,
- unnatural,
- unnerving,
- unpaired,
- unregenerate,
- unrehearsed,
- unrelenting,
- unreliable,
- unrepentant,
- unsatisfied,
- unsmooth,
- unsounded,
- unsporting,
- unsportsmanlike,
- unstable,
- unsympathetic,
- unthinking,
- untitled,
- untune,
- unvoiced,
- unwieldy,
- unworthy,
- upturned,
- vehement,
- vengeful,
- verbatim,
- vexing,
- virulent,
- vital,
- vitiate,
- vitriol,
- vitriolic,
- vituperation,
- voiceless,
- wakeless,
- war-ridden,
- warfare,
- warlike,
- warring,
- wearisome,
- weighed down,
- weighty,
- whimsical,
- whiner,
- whiney,
- whipping,
- wickedness,
- wild,
- wildcat,
- wilful,
- wily,
- wimp,
- with child,
- wolf,
- woman of the street,
- work,
- working girl,
- worried,
- worthless,
- wretched,
- yob,
- yobbo,
- yobo,
- yokelish,
- yucky,
- zen,
- zippy,
- back breaker,
- battery-acid,
- loony toons,
- window pane,
- manoeuver,
- belt down,
- tump over,
- shoot down,
- grease one's palms,
- off-the-wall,
- life-threatening,
- straight-from-the-shoulder,
- hawkish,
- antsy,
- cruddy,
- bad-mannered,
- curly-grained,
- strong-growing,
- wavy-grained,
- fairy,
- gay,
- pissed,
- shitty,
- crappy,
- bitchy,
- kill,
- devil,
- prostitute,
- whore,
- faggot,
- fagot,
- have to do with,
- ad-lib,
- knock down,
- off-the-cuff.
Antonyms for Bad tempered:
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adj.
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bad-tempered
good-humored, affable.
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cantankerous
easy, pleasant, cheerful, nice, good-natured.
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disgruntled
happy, uncritical, contented, satisfied, pleased.
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mean
decent, polite, good, kind, sympathetic, compassionate, extreme, agreeable, safe, clean, upright, friendly, unselfish, moral, noble, sensitive, gentle, mild, pleasing, generous.
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peevish
accepting.
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perverse
compliant, reasonable, willing.
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petulant
patient.
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testy
easy-going, laid-back.
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touchy
collected, insensitive, certain, strong, firm, unflappable, sure, stable, easygoing.
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truculent
tame, cooperative.
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bad-tempered