bad-tempered - 17 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | cantankerous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | difficult, crabby |
| Synonyms: | bad-tempered, captious, choleric, contrary, cranky, critical, cross, crotchety*, crusty*, disagreeable, dour, grouchy*, grumpy*, huffy*, ill-natured, irascible, irritable, morose, obstinate, ornery*, peevish, perverse, petulant, prickly, quarrelsome, snappish, sour, stuffy*, testy, bearish, ill-humored, vinegarish, vinegary |
| Antonyms: | easy, good-natured, happy, nice, pleasant |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | crabby/crabbed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | in a bad mood |
| Synonyms: | acid, acrid, acrimonious, awkward, bad-tempered, blunt, brusque, captious, choleric, churlish, cranky*, cross, crotchety, crusty*, cynical, difficult, dour, fretful, gloomy, glum, grouchy*, harsh, huffy, ill-tempered, irascible, irritable, misanthropic, morose, peevish, perverse, petulant, prickly, saturnine, snappish, snappy, sour, sulky, sullen, surly, tart, testy, tough, trying, unsociable, ill-humored, nasty-tempered, splenetic |
| Antonyms: | happy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | crotchety |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | irritable, often due to old age |
| Synonyms: | awkward, bad-tempered, cantankerous, contrary, crabby*, cranky, cross, crusty, difficult, disagreeable, eccentric, fractious, grouchy, grumpy, irritable, obstinate, obstreperous, odd, ornery*, peevish, queer, surly, testy, unusual, waspish, bearish, cross-grained, curmudgeonly, vinegary, waspy |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, happy, pleasant |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | grumpy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | in a bad mood |
| Synonyms: | bad-tempered, cantankerous*, crabby*, cross, crotchety, disgruntled, dissatisfied, grouchy*, grumbling, irritable, peevish, petulant, querulous, sulky, sullen, surly, testy, truculent, griping, pettish |
| Antonyms: | happy, nice, pleasant |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ill-tempered |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | irritable |
| Synonyms: | annoyed, bad-tempered, cantankerous, choleric, crabby, cross, crotchety, grouchy, grumpy, irascible, moody, nasty, quick-tempered, sharp, snappy, sour, spiteful, surly, testy, touchy, vicious, bearish |
| Main Entry: | peevish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | irritable, testy |
| Synonyms: | acrimonious, angry, bad-tempered, cantankerous, captious, carping, childish, churlish, complaining, cranky, critical, cross, crotchety*, crusty*, fault-finding, fractious, fretful, grouchy, grumpy, huffy, ill-natured, mean, morose, obstinate, ogre, ornery, pertinacious, petulant, querulous, short-tempered, snappy, sulky, sullen, surly, touchy, ugly, waspish, caviling, crabbed, cussed, fretting, grousing, growling, out-of-sorts, splenetic, tetchy, waspy, whining |
| Antonyms: | friendly, happy, pleasant, accepting |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | perverse |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | mean, ornery; troublesome |
| Synonyms: | abnormal, bad-tempered, cantankerous, capricious, contradictory, contrary, contumacious, corrupt, crabby*, cross, degenerate, delinquent, depraved, deviant, disobedient, dogged*, erring, fractious, hard-nosed, headstrong, intractable, intransigent, irritable, miscreant, mulish*, nefarious, obdurate, obstinate, petulant, pigheaded*, rebellious, refractory, rotten*, spiteful, stubborn, unhealthy, unmanageable, unreasonable, unyielding, villainous, wayward, wicked, willful, self-willed |
| Antonyms: | agreeable, compliant, happy, nice, reasonable, willing |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | petulant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crabby, moody |
| Synonyms: | bad-tempered, captious, complaining, cranky*, cross, crybaby*, displeased, fault-finding, fractious, fretful, grouchy, grumbling, huffy, impatient, irritable, mean, peevish, perverse, querulous, snappish, sour, sulky, sullen, testy, touchy, ungracious, uptight*, waspish, caviling, ill-humored, pouting, whining, whiny |
| Antonyms: | good-natured, happy, pleasant |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | quarrelsome |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | being disagreeable |
| Synonyms: | argumentative, bad-tempered, bellicose, belligerent, cantankerous, choleric, churlish, combative, contentious, crabby*, cross, disputatious, excitable, fiery, fractious, hasty, hotheaded*, huffy, impassioned, irascible, irritable, litigious, ornery, passionate, peevish, petulant, pugnacious, querulous, snappy, tempestuous, thin-skinned*, touchy, truculent, turbulent, unruly, violent, war, brawling, cat-and-dog, dissentious, gladiatorial, have chip on shoulder, pettish, ructious |
| Antonyms: | agreeable, forgiving, friendly, good-natured, happy, patient |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sullen |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | brooding, upset |
| Synonyms: | bad-tempered, cheerless, churlish, crabby*, cross, cynical, dismal, dour, dull, fretful, frowning, gloomy, glum, gruff, grumpy*, heavy, hostile, inert, irritable, malevolent, malicious, malign, mean, moody, morose, obstinate, ornery*, out of sorts*, peevish, perverse, pessimistic, petulant, querulous, saturnine, silent, somber, sour, stubborn, sulky, surly, tenebrous, ugly, unsociable, uptight*, crabbed, glowering, ill-humored, pouting, pouty, sourpussed, sulking, tenebrific |
| Antonyms: | bright, cheerful, happy, grinning |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | testy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | irritable, touchy |
| Synonyms: | annoyed, bad-tempered, cantankerous, captious, choleric, cranky*, cross, crotchety, edgy, fretful, grouchy, grumpy*, impatient, irascible, mean, ornery*, out of sorts, peevish, peppery, petulant, quarrelsome, quick-tempered, short-tempered, snappy*, sullen, thin-skinned*, uptight*, waspish, crabbed, exasperated, splenetic |
| Antonyms: | happy, pleasant |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | touchy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | easily offended |
| Synonyms: | bad-tempered, cantankerous, captious, choleric, cranky, cross, delicate, dicey*, grouchy, grumpy, hazardous, irascible, irritable, jumpy*, mean, ornery*, peevish, petulant, precarious, querulous, quick-tempered, risky, sensitive, surly, temperamental, testy, thin-skinned*, ticklish*, tricky, unpredictable, unsafe, uptight*, volatile, bundle of nerves, crabbed, hypersensitive, oversensitive, perturbable, pettish, splenetic, wired up, wound up |
| Antonyms: | calm, easygoing, laid-back, unflappable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | truculent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | belligerent, hateful |
| Synonyms: | abusive, aggressive, antagonistic, bad-tempered, barbarous, bellicose, brutal, bullying, caustic, combative, contentious, cross, defiant, ferocious, fierce, frightening, harsh, hostile, inhuman, intimidating, invective, mean, militant, mordant, obstreperous, opprobrious, ornery*, pugnacious, quarrelsome, rude, savage, scathing, scurrilous, sharp, sullen, terrifying, trenchant, violent, browbeating, contumelious, cowing, inhumane, mordacious, scrappy, terrorizing, vituperative, vituperous |
| Antonyms: | cooperative, gentle, mild, nice, tame |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | crabby |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | irritable |
| Synonyms: | acid, acrid, acrimonious, awkward, bad-tempered, blunt, brusque, captious, choleric, churlish, cranky, cross, crotchety, crusty, cynical, difficult, dour, fretful, gloomy, glum, grouchy, harsh, huffy, ill-tempered, irascible, misanthropic, morose, peevish, perverse, petulant, prickly, saturnine, snappish, sour, sulky, sullen, surly, tart, testy, tough, trying, unsociable, chuffy, crabbed, ill-humored, mumpish, nasty-tempered, splenetic |
| Antonyms: | amiable, good-humored, good-natured, happy, pleasant, sweet |
| Main Entry: | mean |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hostile, rude |
| Synonyms: | bad-tempered, callous, cantankerous, churlish, contemptible, dangerous, despicable, difficult, dirty*, disagreeable, dishonorable, down*, evil, formidable, hard, hard-nosed, ignoble, ill-tempered, infamous, knavish, lousy*, malicious, malign, nasty, perfidious, pesky, rotten, rough, rugged, scurrilous, shameless, sinking, snide, sour, touch, treacherous, troublesome, ugly, unfriendly, unpleasant, unscrupulous, vexatious, vicious, vile, liverish, low-down and dirty, the lowest |
| Notes: | the median is the halfway point, dividing a series of numbers in half - while a mean is the average of the sum of the series |
| Antonyms: | compassionate, kind, nice, noble, polite, sympathetic |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | short |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | abrupt, discourteous |
| Synonyms: | bad-tempered, blunt, brief, brusque, curt, direct, gruff, impolite, inconsiderate, irascible, offhand, rude, sharp, short-tempered, snappy*, snippy*, straight, terse, testy, thoughtless, unceremonious, uncivil, ungracious, breviloquent, short-spoken, snippety |
| Antonyms: | courteous, kind, polite |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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| Main Entry: | quarrelsome |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
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Adjectives: |
quarrelsome, angry, bad-tempered, cacochymical, cantankerous, captious, choleric, churlish, contentious, cross, cross as a cat, cross as a crab, cross as a dog, cross as the tongs, cross as two sticks, disputatious, dissentious, edgy, exceptious, excitable, fidgety, fiery, fractious, fratchy, fretful, hasty, hot, huffy, ill-tempered, in a bad temper, irascible, irritable, like tinder, like touchwood, moodish, nattlesome, on the fret, overhasty, oxythymous, passionate, peevish, peppery, pettish, petulant, pugnacious, querulous, quick, resentful, resentive, restiff, restive, shrewish, snappish, sudden and quick in quarrel, sulky, susceptible, techy, termagant, testy, tetchy, thin-skinned, touchy, vindictive, virulent, warm, waspish
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