ill-humored
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7.0
- adjective
- /ˌɪlˈhjuːmərd/
- US
:
malhumorado
- Simone Weil believes that unjustified suffering and ill-humored sympathy or accusations can often lead a good person to despair.
Examples
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She was ill-humored during the meeting, snapping at anyone who tried to speak.
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The house is like a dungeon: dull, ill-humored, silent.
Fiction book (1998) -
After a long day at work, he returned home feeling ill-humored and tired.
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The waiter was ill-humored, rolling his eyes at the customers' requests.
Synonyms
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4.8
Showing unfriendly feelings toward someone
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1.9
Not kind or warm to other people
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5.7
A rough, low voice or way of acting that sounds unfriendly
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7.3
Being often rude and easily annoyed
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6.0
Not polite and rude to other people
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4.2
Quick to get angry or easily annoyed
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5.7
Easily annoyed and quick to get angry
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9.5
Often bad-tempered and easily annoyed, like a grumpy older person
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3.5
Quick to get angry or annoyed
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9.9
Having a sharp, unfriendly tone that criticizes others
Being easily annoyed and often unkind to others
Being bad-tempered and easily offended
Antonyms
How Bad-Tempered
Surface Forms
Morphology
ill-humored = humored (semi-transparent) = ill + humor + ed
Formed by prefixing 'ill-' to 'humored'; 'ill' (bad) plus 'humor' (mood) yields 'bad-tempered', but 'humor' as 'mood' is somewhat literary/unfamiliar to some learners.
Etymology
The word ill-humored begins with ill- meaning 'bad' and uses humor, a word that once meant a 'body fluid' and later came to mean 'mood'. So, ill-humored simply means someone in a 'bad mood'.