Ill-natured Synonyms and Antonyms

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Synonyms for Ill-natured

cross
Involving interchange; reciprocal.
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spiteful
Filled with, prompted by, or showing spite; malicious.
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crabby
Crabbed; difficult, or perplexing.
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cranky
Working unpredictably; erratic:
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malicious
Having, showing, or caused by malice; spiteful; intentionally mischievous or harmful
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nasty
Mean or spiteful:
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ornery
The definition of ornery is someone bad tempered or stubborn.
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touchy
Sensitive to touch; easily irritated, as a part of the body
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bad-tempered
Alternative spelling of bad-tempered.
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cantankerous
Difficult to handle:
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contentious
Provoking or likely to provoke controversy
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crotchety
Capriciously stubborn or eccentric; perverse.
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grouchy
In a bad-tempered or sulky mood; grumpy
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ill-humored
Having a bad temper
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ill-tempered
Having a bad temper; irritable.
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mean
To have intentions of a specified kind; be disposed:
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moody
Expressive of a mood, especially a sullen or gloomy mood:
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sour
Displeased with something one formerly admired or liked; disenchanted:
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sulky
(Often derogatory) silent and withdrawn after being upset
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temperamental
The definition of temperamental is someone or something that is prone to wild swings of emotion or that does not behave or work reliably.
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unfriendly
Not friendly or kind
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evil-disposed
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ill-intentioned
Having bad intentions; malevolent
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Antonyms for Ill-natured

good-natured
Of or pertaining to a perpetual kind disposition.
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good-tempered
Having an even temper; not easily irritated.
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nice
Agreeable; pleasant; delightful
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friendly
Generally warm, approachable and easy to relate with in character.
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pleasant
Fair and comfortable:
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Words Related to Ill-natured

irritable
In an ill humor; bad-tempered; peevish
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sullen
Gloomy or somber in tone, color, or portent:
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Ill-natured Sentence Examples

  • These were mostly ill-natured, and mostly have a merely local application.

  • Only the interest of the matter prevents one from thinking of Rivarol's ill-natured remark upon Condorcet, that he wrote with opium on a page of lead.

  • Modius Salium, a Collection of Pieces of Humour, chiefly ill-natured personal stories, was published at Oxford in 1751, 12mo.

  • His very proper unwilli gness to stoop to deny an accusation, that would have been .o disgraceful if it had been true, made ill-natured and silly.

  • From the scanty and ill-natured notices of his opponents (Anselm and Abelard), we gather that he refused to recognize the reality of anything but the individual; he treated " the universal substance," says Anselm, as no more than " flatum vocis," a verbal breathing or sound; and in a similar strain he denied any reality to the parts of which a whole, such as a house, is commonly said to be composed.

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