Synonyms for Bad-tempered:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • bad-tempered,
  • ill-tempered,
  • cross,
  • grouchy,
  • crabbed,
  • crabby,
  • fussy.
  •bitchy (adjective)
  • most cattish,
  • more cattish,
  • Over-bearing,
  • over bearing,
  • de spiteful,
  • de-spiteful.
  •cantankerous (adjective)
  • more ill humored,
  • dis-agreeable,
  • most vinegarish,
  • more vinegary,
  • illhumored,
  • badtempered,
  • more vinegarish,
  • ill natured,
  • illnatured,
  • dis agreeable,
  • most bearish,
  • most ill-humored,
  • more bearish,
  • bad tempered,
  • most illhumored,
  • most ill humored,
  • ill humored,
  • most vinegary,
  • more ill-humored,
  • more illhumored.
  •crabby (adjective)
  • most mumpish,
  • chuffier,
  • more mumpish,
  • chuffiest.
  •crabby/crabbed (adjective)
  • more nasty-tempered,
  • mis anthropic,
  • most splenetic,
  • most nasty-tempered,
  • more nasty tempered,
  • more difficult,
  • more nastytempered,
  • un-sociable,
  • most nasty tempered,
  • more splenetic,
  • most crabbed,
  • nastytempered,
  • most nastytempered,
  • mis-anthropic,
  • nasty tempered,
  • un sociable.
  •crotchety (adjective)
  • waspy,
  • cross-grained,
  • Crossgrained.
  •grumpy (adjective)
  • most pettish,
  • most griping,
  • dis satisfied,
  • more pettish,
  • dis-satisfied,
  • more griping.
  •mean (adjective)
  • liverish,
  • hardnosed,
  • lowdown and dirty,
  • the lowest,
  • toucher,
  • snide,
  • low-down and dirty,
  • low-down dirty.
  •peevish (adjective)
  • most out of sorts,
  • fault finding,
  • more whining,
  • most growling,
  • shorttempered,
  • short tempered,
  • more caviling,
  • most fretting,
  • more growling,
  • ogrest,
  • most grousing,
  • more out-of-sorts,
  • most whining,
  • most out-of-sorts,
  • more out of sorts,
  • most caviling,
  • ogrer,
  • more grousing,
  • most cussed,
  • more cussed,
  • more fretting.
  •perverse (adjective)
  • more self-willed,
  • more selfwilled,
  • most selfwilled,
  • un reasonable,
  • de-generate,
  • un-manageable,
  • self willed,
  • most self willed,
  • un-healthy,
  • un-reasonable,
  • in-tractable,
  • un-healthiest,
  • un manageable,
  • de generate,
  • un healthy,
  • most self-willed,
  • dis-obedient,
  • dis obedient,
  • un healthiest,
  • selfwilled,
  • un yielding,
  • un healthier,
  • more self willed,
  • un-yielding,
  • in tractable.
  •petulant (adjective)
  • more pouting,
  • un gracious,
  • more crybaby,
  • un-gracious,
  • most crybaby,
  • dis-pleased,
  • up-tight,
  • up tight,
  • most pouting,
  • dis pleased.
  •quarrelsome (adjective)
  • more cat and dog,
  • cat and dog,
  • most dissentious,
  • more gladiatorial,
  • ex-citable,
  • most cat and dog,
  • more brawling,
  • more dissentious,
  • more cat-and-dog,
  • thinskinned,
  • have chip shoulder,
  • more ructious,
  • ex citable,
  • most gladiatorial,
  • most ructious,
  • most cat-and-dog,
  • warrest,
  • most brawling,
  • thin skinned.
  •short (adjective)
  • shortest,
  • breviloquent.
  •sullen (adjective)
  • sourpussed,
  • tenebrific,
  • pouty.
  •testy (adjective)
  • ex-asperated,
  • most exasperated.
  •touchy (adjective)
  • un safer,
  • bundle nerves,
  • over sensitive,
  • un safe,
  • hyper sensitive,
  • un-safest,
  • hyper-sensitive,
  • pre-carious,
  • most hypersensitive,
  • un-safer,
  • un predictable,
  • most perturbable,
  • un-predictable,
  • un safest,
  • most oversensitive,
  • over-sensitive,
  • un-safe,
  • more perturbable,
  • pre carious,
  • more hypersensitive,
  • more oversensitive.
  •truculent (adjective)
  • in-humane,
  • most invective,
  • more invective,
  • more cowing,
  • in human,
  • more terrorizing,
  • more browbeating,
  • more vituperous,
  • co-wing,
  • co wing,
  • most cowing,
  • most browbeating,
  • most terrorizing,
  • in-human,
  • most vituperous.

• n.

  •
  • disagreeable,
  • snappy,
  • cranky,
  • put out,
  • mad,
  • annoyed,
  • displeased,
  • belligerent,
  • irascible,
  • fretful,
  • irritated,
  • angry,
  • out of sorts,
  • fed up,
  • upset,
  • attitude,
  • waspish,
  • querulous.
  •
  • moody,
  • sensitive.
  •bad-tempered (noun)
  • ill-natured.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • hypercritical,
  • tetchy,
  • excitable,
  • Hot-headed,
  • crusty,
  • choosy,
  • peppery,
  • insatiable,
  • quick-tempered,
  • nagging,
  • censorious,
  • pedantry,
  • short-tempered,
  • curmudgeonly,
  • petty,
  • choleric,
  • judgmental,
  • pernickety,
  • jaundiced,
  • pedantic,
  • unforgiving,
  • hot-tempered,
  • high-maintenance,
  • obstreperous.
  •
  • fractious,
  • ratty,
  • foul,
  • rude,
  • miserable,
  • demanding,
  • uptight,
  • temperamental,
  • persnickety,
  • bilious.
  •
  • difficult,
  • prickly.
  •
  • fiery.
  •Other relevant words:
  • discontented,
  • abrupt,
  • dour,
  • browned off,
  • shirty,
  • harsh,
  • churlish,
  • criticizing,
  • combative,
  • contrary,
  • volatile,
  • blunt,
  • depressing,
  • Piqued,
  • over-particular,
  • discontent,
  • supersensitive,
  • disappointed,
  • curt,
  • hostile,
  • carping,
  • dismal,
  • threatening,
  • barbarous,
  • sulking,
  • impatient,
  • particular,
  • atrabilious,
  • unhappy,
  • discourteous,
  • antisocial,
  • ill-humoured,
  • bitching,
  • on edge,
  • feral,
  • frowning,
  • wicked,
  • finical,
  • scrappy,
  • grumpish,
  • violent,
  • high-strung,
  • dreary,
  • peeved,
  • fierce,
  • abusive,
  • huffish,
  • impulsive,
  • acid,
  • scathing,
  • unsociable,
  • critical,
  • bluff,
  • contentious,
  • snarly,
  • captious,
  • furious,
  • sarcastic,
  • ornery,
  • unpleasant,
  • cheesed off,
  • brusque,
  • black,
  • ferocious,
  • warlike,
  • virulent,
  • wrathful,
  • Snarling,
  • glowering,
  • uncooperative,
  • disputatious,
  • caustic,
  • whining,
  • antagonistic,
  • bellicose,
  • Fault-finding,
  • funereal,
  • thin-skinned,
  • embittered,
  • impolite,
  • Pouting,
  • short,
  • obnoxious,
  • biting,
  • Cavilling,
  • glum,
  • brooding,
  • and Irish cranky,
  • vexed,
  • stroppy,
  • bad-natured,
  • sulky,
  • disobliging,
  • sour,
  • uncivil,
  • sombre,
  • lugubrious,
  • inconsiderate,
  • hot-blooded,
  • Uncourtly,
  • high-keyed,
  • bitter,
  • highly strung,
  • resentful,
  • disgruntled,
  • savage,
  • tense,
  • exasperated,
  • cutting,
  • clouded,
  • in a pique,
  • dissatisfied,
  • gruff,
  • acrimonious,
  • edgy,
  • acerb,
  • murmuring,
  • Short-spoken,
  • grim,
  • dyspeptic,
  • cruel,
  • complaining,
  • unfriendly,
  • argumentative,
  • rough,
  • currish,
  • spiteful,
  • depressed,
  • ill-mannered,
  • bad-mannered,
  • stinging,
  • malcontent,
  • pugnacious,
  • finicky.

Paraphrases for Bad-tempered:

• Independent

  • Adjective
    rude, crude, rough, gross.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    coarse.

Antonyms for Bad-tempered:

• adj.

  • perversely irritable
    affable, good-humored.