bad-tempered

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bad-tempered

adj

angry, irritable, or ungracious

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Adj.

bad-tempered - annoyed and irritable

fussy, grouchy, grumpy, ill-tempered, crabbed, crabby, cross

ill-natured - having an irritable and unpleasant disposition

bad-tempered

adjective irritable, cross, angry, tense, crabbed, fiery, grumbling, snarling, prickly, exasperated, edgy, snappy, sullen, touchy, surly, petulant, sulky, ill-tempered, irascible, cantankerous, tetchy, ratty (Brit. & N.Z. informal), testy, chippy (informal), fretful, grouchy (informal), querulous, peevish, crabby, huffy, dyspeptic, choleric, splenetic, crotchety (informal), oversensitive, snappish, ill-humoured, liverish, narky (Brit. slang), out of humour a crusty, bad-tempered, ill-humoured old gentleman
happy, pleasant, cheerful, good-humoured, amiable, genial, affable, sanguine, good-tempered

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bad-tempered

adjective

Having or showing a bad temper:

cantankerous, crabbed, cranky, cross, disagreeable, fretful, grouchy, grumpy, ill-tempered, irascible, irritable, nasty, peevish, petulant, querulous, snappish, snappy, surly, testy, ugly, waspish.

Informal: crabby, mean.

Idiom: out of sorts.

Translations

bad-tempered

[ˈbædˈtempəd] ADJ [person] (temporarily) → de mal humor; (permanently) → de mal genio, de mal carácter; [argument] → fuerte; [tone etc] → áspero, malhumorado

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

bad-tempered

adj → schlecht gelaunt attr, → übellaunig; to be bad-tempered → schlechte Laune haben; (as characteristic) → ein übellauniger Mensch sein

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

bad-tempered

[ˌbædˈtɛmpəd] adj → irascibile, irritabile; (look) → antipatico/a

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bad-tempered

→ مُتَعَكِّر الـمِزاج nevrlý pirrelig übellaunig κακότροπος de mal genio, malhumorado pahantuulinen avoir mauvais caractère mrzovoljan irritabile 機嫌の悪い 기분이 상한 slechtgehumeurd i dårlig humør wybuchowy mal humorado раздражительный på dåligt humör อารมณ์เสีย huysuz dễ nổi cáu 脾气不好

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