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English
Pronunciation
Adjective
bad-tempered (comparative worse-tempered or more bad-tempered, superlative worst-tempered or most bad-tempered)
- Of or pertaining to bad temper; showing anger easily or customarily.
- Synonyms: foul-tempered, ill-tempered, ill-natured, (dialect) surly, zowerswopped
- Antonym: good-tempered
His bad-tempered outburst caught his friends by surprise.
Jack is the most bad-tempered and violent man I know.
Derived terms
Translations
having a bad temper
- Asturian: encabronáu, fediondu, fuin, fuñicu
- Catalan: malhumorat (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 易怒 (zh) (yìnù), 壞脾氣的 / 坏脾气的 (zh) (huàipíqì de)
- Dutch: slechtgehumeurd (nl)
- Finnish: pahantuulinen (fi), pahansisuinen (fi), äkeä (fi), äksy (fi), äkeäluontoinen
- French: acariâtre (fr), irascible (fr), revêche (fr)
- Galician: broco m, rabuxento m, ríspeto
- Georgian: ბოროტი (boroṭi), ავი (avi)
- German: schlecht gelaunt
- Greek: κακότροπος (el) (kakótropos)
- Ancient: ὀργίλος (orgílos), ἀκράχολος (akrákholos)
- Hungarian: rosszkedvű (hu)
- Icelandic: skapvondur
- Irish: anglánta, confach, stuacach
- Japanese: 怒りっぽい (okorippoi)
- Norman: ouaînâtre (Jersey)
- Ottoman Turkish: تتیز (titiz), خرچین (hırçın)
- Polish: wybuchowy (pl)
- Portuguese: mal-humorado (pt)
- Romanian: rău dispus, prost dispus, supărăcios (ro)
- Russian: злой (ru) (zloj), раздражи́тельный (ru) (razdražítelʹnyj)
- Scottish Gaelic: droch-nàdarrach
- Spanish: malhumorado (es), de mal temperamento
- Swedish: bitsk (sv), vresig (sv)
- Tocharian B: amiske
- Turkish: hırçın (tr), kötü huylu (tr)
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