What is another word for bad-tempered?
1189 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ bˈadtˈɛmpəd], [ bˈadtˈɛmpəd], [ b_ˈa_d_t_ˈɛ_m_p_ə_d]Table of Contents
Similar words for bad-tempered:- all (adjective)
- bitchy (adjective)
- cantankerous (adjective)
- crabby (adjective)
- crabby/crabbed (adjective)
- crotchety (adjective)
- grumpy (adjective)
- mean (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- peevish (adjective)
- perverse (adjective)
- petulant (adjective)
- quarrelsome (adjective)
- short (adjective)
- sullen (adjective)
- testy (adjective)
- touchy (adjective)
- truculent (adjective)
- bad-tempered (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- other synonyms
- other relevant words
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Bad-tempered:
adj.
•all (adjective) •bitchy (adjective) •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.
- 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.
- liverish,
- hardnosed,
- lowdown and dirty,
- the lowest,
- toucher,
- snide,
- low-down and dirty,
- low-down dirty.
- Fretting,
- warrer,
- out-of-sorts,
- pettish,
- bearish,
- Mumpish,
- nasty,
- character trait,
- sullen,
- ugly,
- vinegary,
- head-strong,
- petulant,
- gloomy,
- quarrelsome,
- whiny,
- peevish,
- perverse,
- splenetic,
- obstinate,
- bundle of nerves,
- nasty-tempered,
- Perturbable,
- cattish,
- testy,
- huffy,
- truculent,
- grumbling,
- surly,
- have chip on shoulder,
- ill-humored,
- wired up,
- self-willed,
- dissentious,
- touchy,
- gladiatorial,
- snappish,
- grumpy,
- vicious,
- inhumane,
- cantankerous,
- Chuffy,
- malicious,
- irritable,
- oversensitive,
- ructious,
- cat-and-dog,
- bitchy,
- vinegarish,
- vituperous,
- whinier,
- mean,
- hypersensitive,
- crotchety,
- grousing,
- whiniest,
- morose.
- 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.
- 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.
- more pouting,
- un gracious,
- more crybaby,
- un-gracious,
- most crybaby,
- dis-pleased,
- up-tight,
- up tight,
- most pouting,
- dis pleased.
- 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.
- 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.
n.
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- disagreeable,
- snappy,
- cranky,
- put out,
- mad,
- annoyed,
- displeased,
- belligerent,
- irascible,
- fretful,
- irritated,
- angry,
- out of sorts,
- fed up,
- upset,
- attitude,
- waspish,
- querulous.
Other synonyms:
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- 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.
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- fractious,
- ratty,
- foul,
- rude,
- miserable,
- demanding,
- uptight,
- temperamental,
- persnickety,
- bilious.
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- fiery.
- cloud-covered,
- disordered,
- blistering,
- hapless,
- mutter,
- benumb,
- downcast,
- signify,
- congest,
- harebrained,
- thwarted,
- terse,
- especial,
- medium,
- jazz,
- work,
- roughshod,
- tempestuous,
- fouled,
- low,
- acrid,
- demented,
- bold,
- crucify,
- astringent,
- fatal,
- paltry,
- turn over,
- factious,
- gruesome,
- rebellious,
- fateful,
- foiled,
- adverse,
- distasteful,
- disaffected,
- moth-eaten,
- crustlike,
- sick,
- junior-grade,
- vile,
- lancinating,
- ticklish,
- scotch,
- thorny,
- frosty,
- crossbreed,
- niggling,
- retire,
- tight,
- interbreeding,
- faultfinding,
- pollute,
- fell,
- decisive,
- mischievous,
- pungent,
- officious,
- dot,
- clipping,
- lively,
- musing,
- war-ridden,
- acetose,
- hybridise,
- nervy,
- lightlessness,
- ominous,
- snorty,
- be intimate,
- boisterous,
- pitiable,
- have sex,
- trivial,
- drear,
- objectionable,
- reprehensible,
- free-spoken,
- vehement,
- execrable,
- sensitized,
- sleep together,
- derangement,
- acidulate,
- posture,
- disquieted,
- thinning,
- bang,
- back up,
- discomfited,
- hard,
- disturbed,
- jejune,
- roll in the hay,
- noisome,
- approximate,
- sharp,
- mordant,
- repellant,
- untune,
- trigger-happy,
- sober,
- disconnected,
- spruce,
- hump,
- crimson,
- snot-nosed,
- think of,
- transversal,
- unsportsmanlike,
- bitingly,
- intersect,
- knock over,
- dull,
- film editing,
- get it on,
- false,
- fidgety,
- bilk,
- get over,
- incompatible,
- impish,
- itchy,
- asocial,
- disputative,
- rancid,
- publish,
- unmanageable,
- bristled,
- contrarious,
- discontentment,
- opposite,
- riled,
- uncheerful,
- defeated,
- meddling,
- blackness,
- bitterly,
- pixilated,
- fighter,
- rasping,
- joseph black,
- filthy,
- douse,
- conduct,
- shortly,
- divisive,
- unsympathetic,
- nipping,
- hypersensitized,
- foetid,
- position,
- forthright,
- disturb,
- discompose,
- alert,
- deaden,
- flaming,
- pondering,
- willful,
- loathly,
- menacing,
- capricious,
- infelicitous,
- hybridize,
- delirious,
- demeanor,
- infuriated,
- ruminative,
- imply,
- piercingly,
- combatant,
- pane,
- beggarly,
- transverse,
- recalcitrant,
- melanise,
- love,
- overturned,
- angered,
- tenebrous,
- unsporting,
- disconsolate,
- baleful,
- excited,
- whipping,
- make out,
- contraband,
- counter,
- poisonous,
- release,
- stabbing,
- busybodied,
- peckish,
- exceptional,
- disgustful,
- unconsidered,
- turn in,
- glooming,
- wayward,
- shortstop,
- put under,
- down in the mouth,
- livery,
- clog,
- get across,
- atrocious,
- hard-boiled,
- horrible,
- antipathetic,
- overstrung,
- back breaker,
- irascibility,
- lilliputian,
- unforesightful,
- befoul,
- saturnine,
- bother,
- cut across,
- discommode,
- crank,
- engaged,
- cheerless,
- inconvenience,
- incubation,
- sore,
- battler,
- special,
- grumble,
- crisp,
- uncut,
- foil,
- choke off,
- have in mind,
- reflective,
- lie with,
- tippy,
- cut,
- ill-scented,
- trouble,
- despiteful,
- burred,
- rumbling,
- scant,
- meddlesome,
- horrifying,
- unrestrained,
- miserly,
- laconic,
- harried,
- downhearted,
- stretch forth,
- bottom,
- broody,
- despicable,
- snotty,
- grisly,
- base,
- brusk,
- demeanour,
- perfervid,
- small-minded,
- pitch-dark,
- roughly,
- bristly,
- sunless,
- foul-smelling,
- meanspirited,
- inadequate,
- explosive,
- igneous,
- deplorable,
- red,
- awful,
- overthrow,
- jaunty,
- fetid,
- criminal,
- uncivilised,
- go to sleep,
- slip,
- muttering,
- insatiate,
- hybrid,
- tired of,
- acetify,
- terrible,
- low-down,
- complaintive,
- in use,
- plainspoken,
- melancholy,
- item,
- mingy,
- brainsick,
- doings,
- obdurate,
- window pane,
- spiny,
- jolty,
- condemnable,
- interbreed,
- off,
- rocky,
- sinister,
- arch,
- sepulchral,
- implike,
- rough out,
- aggressive,
- approximative,
- vitriolic,
- ungracious,
- piteous,
- primitive,
- pissed off,
- jolting,
- stern,
- afoul,
- marked-up,
- anesthetise,
- melanize,
- pestered,
- acerbic,
- pensive,
- merry,
- discomfit,
- have it off,
- abruptly,
- average,
- fervent,
- nettlesome,
- deportment,
- strain,
- catty,
- revolting,
- jumpy,
- depraved,
- cover,
- overcritical,
- total darkness,
- maddened,
- battleful,
- whiney,
- hateful,
- raging,
- slimy,
- tense up,
- acidulous,
- gravelly,
- cut through,
- african-american,
- defile,
- unappeasable,
- crazy,
- disgusting,
- swage,
- seam,
- stuck-up,
- smutty,
- tenebrious,
- donnish,
- barbaric,
- lowering,
- abject,
- tump over,
- martial,
- restive,
- frantic,
- raw,
- froward,
- repellent,
- woeful,
- hard-bitten,
- antsy,
- funky,
- disgraceful,
- somber,
- lancinate,
- dark,
- get laid,
- barbarian,
- litigious,
- crown of thorns,
- unrelenting,
- choke,
- baffle,
- briery,
- tearaway,
- queer,
- burry,
- ardent,
- misfortunate,
- rough in,
- tearing,
- unholy,
- petty larceny,
- have it away,
- loony toons,
- span,
- uncivilized,
- anaesthetise,
- stark,
- suddenly,
- bastardly,
- rattling,
- ferment,
- snooty,
- ghastly,
- brisk,
- vindictive,
- refractory,
- hotheaded,
- forbidding,
- murmuration,
- think,
- brutal,
- agonistical,
- curly-grained,
- impassioned,
- worried,
- grating,
- fervid,
- thwart,
- sensible,
- narky,
- barbellate,
- incommode,
- extend,
- secondary,
- dapper,
- eff,
- yucky,
- interfering,
- contaminate,
- press cutting,
- anaesthetize,
- behavior,
- keen,
- perturbation,
- venomous,
- wilful,
- unsmooth,
- inimical,
- turn,
- encrusted,
- bounderish,
- perverted,
- wildcat,
- corrosive,
- dead,
- anesthetize,
- stand for,
- mark,
- reverse,
- hypersensitised,
- harassed,
- straight-from-the-shoulder,
- light,
- clog up,
- short-change,
- bluff out,
- shameful,
- prankish,
- jittery,
- dispirited,
- low-spirited,
- warring,
- choosey,
- disastrous,
- overturn,
- down,
- brute,
- beast,
- candid,
- sulfurous,
- blackened,
- frustrated,
- occupy,
- coarse,
- dirty,
- tartness,
- heavy,
- skanky,
- unprompted,
- erosive,
- sensitised,
- carving,
- superman,
- calamitous,
- spiffy,
- disturbance,
- tatty,
- blurred,
- miffed,
- spleen,
- raffish,
- pitch-black,
- upturned,
- disoblige,
- raring,
- petit larceny,
- vituperative,
- lowly,
- dose,
- academic,
- layer,
- overcast,
- bring out,
- issue,
- pitch blackness,
- track,
- nippy,
- sting,
- driving,
- scurvy,
- go to bed,
- briary,
- pertinacious,
- forgetful,
- peculiar,
- cussed,
- erratic,
- distressed,
- supercilious,
- acidity,
- little,
- unretentive,
- uppish,
- smother,
- sleep with,
- persistent,
- wavy-grained,
- allergic,
- unworthy,
- have intercourse,
- picayune,
- stubborn,
- poor,
- puckish,
- feisty,
- fuck,
- newspaper clipping,
- hybridizing,
- four flush,
- hybridisation,
- pillory,
- short temper,
- subaltern,
- brainish,
- sinful,
- bonk,
- knifelike,
- headstrong,
- disconcert,
- sulphurous,
- precipitous,
- acidify,
- supersensitized,
- wroth,
- mordacious,
- yokelish,
- unregenerate,
- cheating,
- mean value,
- agonistic,
- detail,
- screw,
- know,
- wolf,
- curtly,
- hawkish,
- maculate,
- gloomful,
- husky,
- scummy,
- frightful,
- dysphoric,
- disgusted,
- hold out,
- blacken,
- spanking,
- scurrilous,
- sorry,
- shortsighted,
- inglorious,
- off-key,
- knotty,
- impetuous,
- lower-ranking,
- wild,
- unyielding,
- raspy,
- acidic,
- discontentedness,
- lienal,
- battery-acid,
- bleak,
- supersensitised,
- unsatiable,
- negroid,
- stinking,
- snarled,
- sneering,
- particular proposition,
- lowbred,
- frustrate,
- sourness,
- pitiful,
- hoarse,
- piercing,
- dogged,
- unmannered,
- piffling,
- outspoken,
- techy,
- short-circuit,
- bigheaded,
- tenacious,
- scratchy,
- pensiveness,
- too big for one's breeches,
- crossing,
- point-blank,
- spiritualist,
- make love,
- tender,
- bowl over,
- unrepentant,
- torrid,
- negro,
- dingy,
- traverse,
- cutting off,
- cruddy,
- broken,
- unawares,
- bumpy,
- ignominious,
- press clipping,
- tip over,
- dim,
- hybridization,
- inexorable,
- bolshy,
- barbed,
- repelling,
- ill-affected,
- roiled,
- piddling,
- rumble,
- measly,
- susurrant,
- confused,
- acidulent,
- opprobrious,
- steamed,
- acetous,
- stung,
- bloody-minded,
- turned,
- edged,
- delicate,
- scrapper,
- smuggled,
- blast,
- crawl in,
- splenic,
- unhinged,
- macabre,
- black-market,
- reprobate,
- sluggish,
- crisscross,
- antipathetical,
- minatory,
- enraged,
- blue,
- shabby,
- mussitation,
- wrothful,
- hit the sack,
- intend,
- minacious,
- zen,
- yellow,
- shrewish,
- meditative,
- crude,
- turnover,
- madcap,
- crusted,
- insane,
- worthless,
- pass over,
- relentless,
- deadly,
- sack out,
- ill-bred,
- fickle,
- rakish,
- pathetic,
- kip down,
- stretch out,
- loathsome,
- pissed,
- zippy,
- underbred,
- dashing,
- fiddling,
- sheer,
- specific,
- abrasive,
- frank,
- thwartwise,
- unmannerly,
- bitterness,
- cutthroat,
- biliary,
- natural,
- do it,
- sick of,
- wretched,
- myopic,
- disorder,
- drab,
- numb,
- unbalanced,
- severe,
- entail,
- sweep,
- evil,
- bowelless,
- nettled,
- murmur,
- crossbreeding,
- vital,
- bootleg,
- hit the hay,
- uncongenial,
- footling,
- natty,
- mental attitude,
- spoil,
- have a go at it,
- suffering,
- whispering,
- militant,
- smelly,
- contemplative,
- whimsical.
- 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.
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Antonyms for Bad-tempered:
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adj.
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perversely irritable
affable, good-humored.
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perversely irritable