ill-humored
see definition of ill-humoredSynonyms for ill-humored
adj bad-tempered, crabby- annoyed
- contentious
- exasperated
- fractious
- petulant
- prickly
- resentful
- surly
- testy
- bearish
- brooding
- cantankerous
- carping
- choleric
- complaining
- crabbed
- cross
- crotchety
- disputatious
- dissatisfied
- dyspeptic
- easily offended
- fiery
- fretful
- fretting
- gloomy
- grouchy
- grumbling
- hasty
- hot
- huffy
- hypercritical
- irascible
- moody
- morose
- out of humor
- oversensitive
- peevish
- plaintive
- querulous
- quick-tempered
- sensitive
- snappy
- snarling
- tense
- touchy
Antonyms for ill-humored
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crabbier
adjective. irritable
- acid
- acrid
- acrimonious
- awkward
- bad-tempered
- blunt
- brusque
- captious
- choleric
- chuffy
- churlish
- crabbed
- cranky
- cross
- crotchety
- crusty
- cynical
- difficult
- dour
- fretful
- gloomy
- glum
- grouchy
- harsh
- huffy
- ill-humored
- ill-tempered
- irascible
- misanthropic
- morose
- mumpish
- nasty-tempered
- peevish
- perverse
- petulant
- prickly
- saturnine
- snappish
- sour
- splenetic
- sulky
- sullen
- surly
- tart
- testy
- tough
- trying
- unsociable
crabbiest
adjective. irritable
- acid
- acrid
- acrimonious
- awkward
- bad-tempered
- blunt
- brusque
- captious
- choleric
- chuffy
- churlish
- crabbed
- cranky
- cross
- crotchety
- crusty
- cynical
- difficult
- dour
- fretful
- gloomy
- glum
- grouchy
- harsh
- huffy
- ill-humored
- ill-tempered
- irascible
- misanthropic
- morose
- mumpish
- nasty-tempered
- peevish
- perverse
- petulant
- prickly
- saturnine
- snappish
- sour
- splenetic
- sulky
- sullen
- surly
- tart
- testy
- tough
- trying
- unsociable
crabby
adjective. irritable
- acid
- acrid
- acrimonious
- awkward
- bad-tempered
- blunt
- brusque
- captious
- choleric
- chuffy
- churlish
- crabbed
- cranky
- cross
- crotchety
- crusty
- cynical
- difficult
- dour
- fretful
- gloomy
- glum
- grouchy
- harsh
- huffy
- ill-humored
- ill-tempered
- irascible
- misanthropic
- morose
- mumpish
- nasty-tempered
- peevish
- perverse
- petulant
- prickly
- saturnine
- snappish
- sour
- splenetic
- sulky
- sullen
- surly
- tart
- testy
- tough
- trying
- unsociable
crabby/crabbed
adjective. in a bad mood
- 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-humored
- ill-tempered
- irascible
- irritable
- misanthropic
- morose
- nasty-tempered
- peevish
- perverse
- petulant
- prickly
- saturnine
- snappish
- snappy
- sour
- splenetic
- sulky
- sullen
- surly
- tart
- testy
- tough
- trying
- unsociable
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Example Sentences forill-humored
"He's cross this evening,—cross and ill-humored," said Scanlan, laughing.
If, then, he did not enjoy himself on his visit, he came away from it soured and ill-humored.
Every man is ill-humored who loses such a sum as I have lost.
In the tenth he is black and sullen-browed, and ill-humored—and strong.
It was enough to make any one ill-humored to be disturbed so unexpectedly.
It plays and dances for one and talks to one, and sometimes it is ill-humored.
She was not grateful, or ungrateful, or unkind, or ill-humored.
In all their acquaintance he had never seen her ill-humored.
If this occur, have patience, and do not become pettish or ill-humored.
But boys, when they are ill-humored, and dispute, are always unreasonable and foolish.