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Definition: Ill-tempered |
Ill-temperedAdjective1. Perversely irritable. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "ill-tempered" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
Synonyms: Ill-temperedSynonyms: bad-tempered (adj), crabbed (adj), crabby (adj), cross (adj), fussy (adj), grouchy (adj), grumpy (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. |
Sullenness | Adjective: sullen, sulky; ill-tempered, ill-humored, ill-affected, ill-disposed; grouty; in an ill temper, in a bad temper, in a shocking temper, in an ill humor, in a bad humor, in a shocking humor; out of temper, out of humor; knaggy, torvous, crusty, crabbed; sour, sour as a crab; surly; (discourteous). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Ill-tempered |
| English words defined with "ill-tempered": bag, black bee ♦ disagreeableness ♦ German bee, glumness ♦ Jadish ♦ meanly, moroseness ♦ nastily ♦ old bag ♦ shirty, Snaggy, snorty, sullenness ♦ Wrawful. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "ill-tempered": Chastise, CRABBED, CROSS PATCH ♦ Devils ♦ Ice ♦ Legs ♦ May Bugs ♦ Scratch. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "ill-tempered": Wrawful. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Ill-tempered" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Ill-tempered" is used about 37 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% | 37 | 56,631 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "ill-tempered"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | grua grindavece (ill-tempered woman, vexatious woman, virago). (various references) | |
Finnish | tuittupäinen (cross, hot-tempered, irascible), kiukkupäinen (irascible), äreä (cross, gruff, grumpy, sullen), äksy (cross, fierce, unmanageable, vicious), äkäinen (angry, cross, fierce). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 意地悪 (malicious, unkind). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | いじわる (malicious, unkind). (various references) | |
Manx | groamey (depressing, depressive, joyless, moody, sepulchral, sombre), granganagh (cantankerous, captious, cattish, catty, churlish, crabbed, crabbed of person, crabby, cross, cross annoyed, cynical, disagreeable, fractious, fretful, grumpy, ill-humoured, ill-natured, niggly person, peevish, snappy). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ill-tempereday.(various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zloćudna osoba (ill-tempered person). (various references) | |
Swedish | argsint (angrily, angry, bilious, ill tempered, shrewish). (various references) | |
Thai | อารม"์ร้าย. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | gắt gỏng (crossly, disagreeable, snappish, snappy, surly, waspish), cáu bẳn, c u nh u (crustily, ill-humoured, peeved). (various references) | |
Welsh | annaturus. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Words rhyming with "ill-tempered" (pronounced 'Ill`-tem"pered'): good-tempered, slippered. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-e-i-l-l-m-p-r-t" | |
-3 letters: impelled, impeller, milleped, pelleted, peltered, perilled, remelted, repelled, tempered, tillered. | |
-4 letters: demerit, demirep, deplete, dimeter, emptied, emptier, epiderm, epimere, eremite, impeder, merited, metered, mitered, periled, perlite, petered, preedit, preemie, premeet, prilled, replete, replied, reptile, retiled, retimed, rimpled, templed, trilled, tripled. | |
-5 letters: deeper, delete, delime, deperm, dieter, dimple, eelier, elmier, empire, epimer, impede, itemed, leered, lieder, lilted, limped, limper, limpet, meeter, melder, melled, melted, melter, metier, metred, milder, milled, miller, millet, milted, milter, mitred, pedler, peeled, peeler, peered, peerie, pelite, pellet, pelmet, pelted, pelter, perdie, permed, permit, petrel, pilled, prelim, premed, premie, primed, redeem, redipt, reedit, reeled, reemit, relied, remeet, remelt, repled, retell, retied, retile, retime, rilled, rillet, rimple, teemed, teemer, teller, temped, temper, temple, termed, tiered, tilled, tiller, tirled, trepid, triple. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-e-i-l-l-m-p-r-t" | |
+2 letters: demultiplexer. | |
+3 letters: demultiplexers. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 6C 6C 2D 74 65 6D 70 65 72 65 64 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01101100 01101100 00101101 01110100 01100101 01101101 01110000 01100101 01110010 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I l l - t e m p e r e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 006C 006C 002D 0074 0065 006D 0070 0065 0072 0065 0064 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)437878158671798271847170 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Translations: Modern 7. Rhymes 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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