Ill-natured

Definition: Ill-natured

Ill-natured

Adjective

1. Having an irritable and unpleasant disposition; "an ill-natured disagreeable old man".

Date "ill-natured" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Synonym: Ill-natured

Synonym: fretful. (additional references)

Antonym: good-natured (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Malevolence	Adjective: malevolent, unbenevolent; unbenign; ill-disposed, ill-intentioned, ill-natured, ill-conditioned, ill-contrived; evil-minded, evil-disposed; black-browed.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Ill-natured

English words defined with "ill-natured": Attercop ♦ Cankered, crossly ♦ grouchily, grumpily ♦ Natured ♦ snappishly ♦ Tartarous, tetchily ♦ Unamiable. (references)

Specialty definitions using "ill-natured": Dram-drinking ♦ Naked, Nut-brown Maid ♦ Sheep. (references)

"Ill-natured" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Ill-natured" is used about 2 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%	2	245,945

Language		Translations for "ill-natured"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Japanese Kanji		性悪 (inconstancy), 意地悪い . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		しょうわる (inconstancy), いじわるい. (various references)

Manx		neuchenjal, granganagh (cantankerous, captious, cattish, catty, churlish, crabbed, crabbed of person, crabby, cross, cross annoyed, cynical, disagreeable, fractious, fretful, grumpy, ill-humoured, ill-tempered, niggly person, peevish, snappy), drogh-aighagh (malicious, malignant, unfortunate), beeataigagh (jadish, pert). (various references)

Pig Latin		ill-natureday.(various references)

Russian		грубый (bad, barbaric, barbarous, bearish, beastly, bestial, blunt, boeotian, boor, boorish, brusque, brutal, brute, brute-force, brutish, churlish, clownish, coarse, common, crass, crude, curmudgeonly, currish, fresh, fulsome, gross, gross ear, gruff, hard bitten, hardhanded, harsh, heathenish, homespun, horny, ill-bred, ill-mannered, jazz, larrikin, loutish, low down, low-lived, rank, raucous, raw, rawhide, ribald, robust, rough, rough and ready, rude, scratchy, scurrilous, uncivil, uncultivated, unfinished, unhewn, unmannerly, vulgar, woolly), злобный (bitchy, blackhearted, catty, despiteful, envenomed, evil-minded, ill natured, malicious, malign, nasty, ornery, rancorous, spiteful, spleenful, spleenish, venomous, viperous, virulent), дурного нрава (ill natured, ill-conditioned, ill-humoured). (various references)

Scottish		crosda (fretful, peevish, perverse). (various references)

Thai		อารม�"์ไม่�"ี. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Words rhyming with "ill-natured" (pronounced 'Ill`-na"tured'): Cinctured, Contextured, Debentured, Defeatured, Deminatured, Disnatured, Featured, good-natured, Impictured, Impostured, Insculptured, Intextured, Misadventured, Natured, Strictured, structured, Sutured, Unfeatured, Vestured, Well-natured. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-i-l-l-n-r-t-u"
	-1 letter: tellurian.
	-2 letters: auntlier, dentural, indurate, retinula, ruinated, tailleur, tenurial, unallied, underlit, untilled, urinated.
	-3 letters: aliunde, allured, alunite, antired, audient, dallier, daunter, detrain, dialler, dilater, diluent, diluter, diurnal, intrude, landler, latrine, launder, literal, lunated, lurdane, natured, neutral, rallied, ralline, ratline, redtail, reliant, retinal, ruinate, rundlet, tallied, tallier, taurine, tendril, trailed, trained, trenail, trilled, trindle, trundle, turdine, unaired, unideal, unitard, unrated, untired, untread, untried, uralite, uranide, uranite, uredial, urinate.
	-4 letters: airted, aldrin, alined, aliner, allied, allude, allure, aludel, antler, ardent, ariled, audile, aulder, auntie, darnel, dartle, dautie, denari, denial, dental, dentil, derail, detail, detain, dialer, dilate, dilute, duelli, duller, dunite, durian, eluant, entail, indult, inured, ladler, laired, lander, larine, lauder, laurel, learnt, lentil, lienal, lilted, lineal, linear, lintel, linter, lunate, lunier, lunted, lurdan, luteal, lutein, nailed, nailer, nature, neural, nilled, nulled, nurled, nutria, railed, rained, ranted, ratine, ratlin, redial, relaid, renail, rental, retail, retain, retial, retina, rident, rilled, rillet, ritual, ruined, rundle, runlet, rutile, tailed, tailer, taille, taller, telial, tenail, tilled, tiller, tinder, tineal, tirade, tirled, trinal, trined, triune, tuille, tuladi, tundra, turned, united, uniter, unlade, unlaid, unlead, unread, unreal, untied, uredia, urinal.
	-5 letters: adieu, adult, aider, ailed, aired, alder, alert, alien, aline, alter, anile, anted, antre, ariel, artel, audit, aurei, dater, daunt, deair, dealt, delta, denar, derat, dinar, diner, drail, drain, drill, dulia, dural, elain, eland, elint, entia, ideal, idler, ileal, iller, indue, inert, inlet, inter, inure, irade, irate, laden, lader, ladle, laird, lated, laten, later, leant, learn, liane, liard, lidar, lined, liner, liter, litre, lunar, lunet, lured, lurid, lutea, luted, nadir, naled, nidal, niter, nitre, nuder, nudie, ranid, rated, ratel, redan, redia, relit, renal, retia, riant, riled, rille, ruled, rutin, taler, tared, teind, telia, tenia, terai, tidal, tilde, tiled, tiler, tinea, tined, tired, trade, trail, train, tread, trend, triad, trial, tried, trill, trine, trued, trull, tulle, tuned, tuner, ulnad, ulnae, ulnar, ultra, under, unite, unled, unlet, unlit, untie, until, uraei, urate, ureal, urial, urine, uteri, utile.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-i-l-l-n-r-t-u"
	+2 letters: prudentially.
	+3 letters: tranquillized.
	+4 letters: clairaudiently, counterrallied, uncrystallized.
	+5 letters: grandiloquently.
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