Synonyms: ill-natured
Definition: having an irritable and unpleasant disposition
Similar words: bilious, atrabilious, dyspeptic, liverish
Definition: irritable as if suffering from indigestion
Similar words: prickly, bristly, waspish, splenetic
Definition: very irritable
Usage: bristly exchanges between the White House and the press; he became prickly and spiteful; witty and waspish about his colleagues
Similar words: cantankerous, ornery, crotchety
Definition: having a difficult and contrary disposition
Usage: a cantankerous and venomous-tongued old lady- Dorothy Sayers
Similar words: choleric, irascible, short-tempered, quick-tempered, hot-tempered, hotheaded
Definition: quickly aroused to anger
Usage: a hotheaded commander
Similar words: churlish
Definition: having a bad disposition; surly
Usage: churlish as a bear- Shakespeare
Similar words: ill-tempered, grumpy, grouchy, crabbed, crabby, cross, bad-tempered, fussy
Definition: annoyed and irritable
Similar words: fractious, cranky, scratchy, irritable, peckish, peevish, pettish, petulant, nettlesome, techy, testy, tetchy
Definition: easily irritated or annoyed
Usage: an incorrigibly fractious young man; not the least nettlesome of his countrymen
Similar words: ill-humored, ill-humoured, gruff, crusty, curmudgeonly
Definition: brusque and surly and forbidding
Usage: crusty remarks; a crusty old man; his curmudgeonly temper; gruff manner; a gruff reply
Similar words: currish
Definition: resembling a cur; snarling and rude
Similar words: dark, dour, glowering, glum, saturnine, sour, sullen, moody, morose
Definition: showing a brooding ill humor
Usage: a dark scowl; the proverbially dour New England Puritan; a glum, hopeless shrug; he sat in moody silence; a morose and unsociable manner; a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius- Bruce Bliven; a sour temper; a sullen crowd
Similar words: disagreeable
Definition: unpleasant to interact with
Usage: a disagreeable old man
Definition: sullen or moody
Similar words: misanthropic, misanthropical
Definition: hating mankind in general
Similar words: misogynistic, misogynous
Definition: hating women in particular
Definition: (British informal) ill-tempered or annoyed
Similar words: shrewish, nagging
Definition: continually complaining or faultfinding
Usage: a shrewish wife; nagging parents
Similar words: snappish, snappy
Definition: apt to speak irritably
Usage: a snappish tone of voice
Similar words: spoiled, spoilt
Definition: having the character or disposition harmed by pampering or oversolicitous attention
Usage: a spoiled child
Definition: inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace
Usage: a surly waiter; an ugly frame of mind
Similar words: vinegarish, vinegary
Definition: having a sour disposition; ill-tempered