Definition of ill-natured Ill-natured
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We found 5 definitions of ill-natured from 3 different sources.
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What does ill-natured mean?
WordNet
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| ill-natured - having an irritable and unpleasant disposition | ||
| good-natured having an easygoing and cheerful disposition; "too good-natured to resent a little criticism"; "the good-natured policeman on our block"; "the sounds of good-natured play" | ||
| unpleasant disagreeable to the senses, to the mind, or feelings ; "an unpleasant personality"; "unpleasant repercussions"; "unpleasant odors" | ||
| nature the complex of emotional and intellectual attributes that determine a person's characteristic actions and reactions; "it is his nature to help others" | ||
| atrabilious, dyspeptic, liverish, bilious irritable as if suffering from indigestion | ||
| waspish, bristly, prickly, splenetic very irritable; "bristly exchanges between the White House and the press"; "he became prickly and spiteful"; "witty and waspish about his colleagues" | ||
| crotchety, ornery, cantankerous having a difficult and contrary disposition; "a cantankerous and venomous-tongued old lady"- Dorothy Sayers | ||
| hot-tempered, quick-tempered, short-tempered, hotheaded, irascible, choleric characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation; "a hotheaded decision"; "liable to such impulsive acts as hugging strangers"; "an impetuous display of spending and gambling"; "madcap escapades"; (`brainish' is archaic) | ||
| churlish having a bad disposition; surly; "churlish as a bear"- Shakespeare | ||
| bad-tempered, crabbed, crabby, grouchy, grumpy, ill-tempered, cross, fussy annoyed and irritable | ||
| tetchy, testy, techy, petulant, pettish, peevish, peckish, nettlesome, cranky, irritable, fractious, scratchy somewhat hungry | ||
| curmudgeonly, ill-humored, ill-humoured, crusty, gruff brusque and surly and forbidding; "crusty remarks"; "a crusty old man"; "his curmudgeonly temper"; "gruff manner"; "a gruff reply" | ||
| currish resembling a cur; snarling and rude | ||
| glowering, morose, glum, moody, saturnine, sullen, dour, sour, dark moody and melancholic | ||
| disagreeable not to your liking; "a disagreeable situation" | ||
| huffish, sulky sullen or moody | ||
| misanthropic, misanthropical hating mankind in general | ||
| misogynistic, misogynous hating women in particular | ||
| shirty, snorty (British informal) ill-tempered or annoyed | ||
| nagging, shrewish continually complaining or faultfinding; "a shrewish wife"; "nagging parents" | ||
| snappish, snappy apt to speak irritably; "a snappish tone of voice" | ||
| spoiled, spoilt having the character or disposition harmed by pampering or oversolicitous attention; "a spoiled child" | ||
| surly, ugly inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace; "a surly waiter"; "an ugly frame of mind" | ||
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Wiktionary 
- ill-natured (Adjective)
bad-tempered, irritable or malevolent.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- ill-natured (a.)
Of habitual bad temper; peevish; fractious; cross; crabbed; surly; as, an ill-natured person. - ill-natured (a.)
Dictated by, or indicating, ill nature; spiteful. - ill-natured (a.)
Intractable; not yielding to culture.
