Bad-tempered

Definition: Bad-tempered

Bad-tempered

Adjective

1. Perversely irritable.

Date "bad-tempered" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1868. (references)

Synonyms: Bad-tempered

Synonyms: crabbed (adj), crabby (adj), cross (adj), fussy (adj), grouchy (adj), grumpy (adj), ill-tempered (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Irascibility	Adjective: irascible; bad-tempered, ill-tempered; irritable, susceptible; excitable; thin-skinned; (sensitive); fretful, fidgety; on the fret.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Bad-tempered

English words defined with "bad-tempered": churl, crank, crosspatch ♦ grouch, grump ♦ shrew ♦ termagant. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Alright, ignore me you bad-tempered old cow! (Are You Being Served?; writing credit: John T. Chapman; David Croft)
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Domain	Title
Books	Menander: The Bad-Tempered Man: Dyskolos Latin/English (reference) The Tale of the Bad-Tempered Ghost (reference) (more book examples)
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"Bad-tempered" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Bad-tempered" is used about 117 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	117	29,823

Language		Translations for "bad-tempered"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		坏磨炼. (various references)

Finnish		pahan-tuulinen (in a bad temper). (various references)

German		schlechte laune haben (be bad-tempered). (various references)

Greek		κακοκεφάτος, με κακή διάθεση. (various references)

Hungarian		zsörtölődő (crabby, cross-grained, grouchy, gruff, grumbler, nagging, rambunctious). (various references)

Indonesian		pemberang (hothead, hotheaded). (various references)

Korean		나쁘 부두럽게 하�". (various references)

Manx		groamagh (bearish, bleak, bleak of weather, cheerless, crestfallen, dejected, depressive, disagreeable, dour, forbidding, gloomy, glum, grim, gruff, mopish, morose, prospects, prospects), saturnine, sombre, sorry, stern, sullen, surly), friogganagh (bristly, cantankerous, crabby, echinoid, edgy, finned, finny, liverish, offended, prickly, ratty, setaceous, stickleback, touchy), cretchagh, correydank (crotchety, cussed, peevish), caulgagh (barbed, bearded; lesser weaver, bristly, exasperating, prickly, truculent, waspish). (various references)

Pig Latin		ad-temperedbay.(various references)

Russian		раздражительный (apoplectic, bad tempered, chippy, choleric, crab, crabbed, crabby, criss cross, crusty, doggish, fractious, fretful, grouty, grumpy, huffish, huffy, irascible, irritable, livery, ornery, peevish, pettish, petulant, quick tempered, quicktempered, rambunctious, rusty, short tempered, snappish, snooty, snuffy, spleenful, splenetic, testy, touchy), злой (bad tempered, blackhearted, black-hearted, cattish, evil, evil-minded, fractious, ill disposed, ill natured, ornery, puckish, scathing, squinteyed, surly, unkind, vicious, vixenish). (various references)

Thai		อารม�"์เสีย (arse-on, arsey, grumpily, grumpiness, grumpy, huff, splenetic). (various references)

Vietnamese		xấu tính hay cáu, dễ nổi nóng (hasty). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-d-d-e-e-e-m-p-r-t"
	-2 letters: depredate, permeated.
	-3 letters: bedraped, departed, departee, depermed, permeate, predated, repeated, reteamed, tampered, tempered.
	-4 letters: adeemed, adepter, bearded, bedmate, bedrape, berated, breaded, breamed, debated, debater, derated, dreamed, metered, petered, predate, premade, premeet, rebated, redated, remated, retaped, tabered, tapered, tempera, tramped, treaded.
	-5 letters: ambeer, ampere, badder, barded, beaded, beamed, beater, bedder, beeped, beeper, berate, damped, damper, darted, deader, debate, deemed, deeper, depart, deperm, derate, draped, dreamt, madder, marted, meated, meeter, metepa, metred, padder, pardee, parted, pedate, peered, permed, petard, prated, premed, ramped, reamed, reaped, rebate, redate, redeem, reeded, remade, remate, remeet, repeat, retape, reteam, tamped, tamper, teamed, teared, tedder, teemed, teemer, temped, temper, termed, traded.
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