ill-humored

adjective

ˈil-ˈhyü-mərd How to pronounce ill-humored (audio)
Definition of ill-humorednext
as in irritable
having or showing a habitually bad temper an ill-humored person should probably not take a job that requires dealing with the public

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ill-humored
  1. irritable
  2. angry
  3. splenetic
  4. disagreeable
  5. cantankerous
  6. bilious
  7. ornery
  8. exasperated
Adjective
  • Though most people benefit from eating more fiber, some may need to temporarily reduce their fiber intake to help their digestive system heal, such as during a flare-up of irritable bowel disease (IBD), diverticulitis, or Crohn’s disease.4 3.
    — Melissa Nieves, Verywell Health, 7 Mar. 2025
  • Tornado Alley is a strip from Nebraska to Texas known for irritable weather systems.
    — Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Mar. 2025
Definition of irritable
Adjective
  • Consumers are angry about high prices, but few realize just how little profit many of the small and medium-sized food industry producers and independent restaurants who make and sell them their meals actually make.
    — Rovshan Rasulov, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Accept Your Child's Anger When your child has an angry outburst, acknowledge it.
    — Miriam Foley, Parents, 11 Mar. 2025
Definition of angry
Adjective
  • And while there is enough splenetic wit and manic detail to generate obsessive fandom (entire sections of Web sites are dedicated to deciphering just what Kenny is mumbling), subjects like alien abduction, genetic engineering, and Kathie Lee are hardly original targets for satire.
    — Chris Norris, SPIN, 13 Aug. 2022
  • Meanwhile, the commentator and controversialist Piers Morgan, an obsessively close observer and relentless critic of Meghan, inevitably waded in with his usual splenetic views.
    — Sarah Lyall, New York Times, 17 Sep. 2022
Definition of splenetic
Adjective
  • The United States’s three most powerful European allies disagree with its plan for ending the brutal, destructive stalemate in Ukraine, with Germany the most disagreeable.
    — Dominic Green, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 21 Feb. 2025
  • Sometimes that means confronting disagreeable people.
    — David Plazas, The Tennessean, 24 Apr. 2024
Definition of disagreeable
Adjective
  • But one favorite will not suit up - Phil Dunster, who played talented yet cantankerous pretty-boy goal scorer, Jamie Tartt.
    — Marco della Cava, USA TODAY, 14 Mar. 2025
  • The membership must have been particularly cantankerous this year, since only four players – Gates, Eric Allen, Jared Allen and Sterling Sharpe – were selected.
    — Jim Alexander, Orange County Register, 7 Feb. 2025
Definition of cantankerous
Adjective
  • In the Nineties, the report became a staple in the bilious feedstock of right-wing militias, part of a slurry of propaganda that turned legitimate grievances into the conviction that FEMA agents in unmarked black helicopters were soon to enact a new world order.
    — Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025
  • The death chamber is nine feet by twelve feet, painted a bilious turquoise.
    — Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
Definition of bilious
Adjective
  • The offensive line, in Monken’s estimation, is the most talented and possibly most ornery unit he’s had at West Point, all the way down to wrestling each other to settle arguments about who’s tougher.
    — Brian Hamilton, The Athletic, 21 Nov. 2024
  • They’re led by John Dutton III, an ornery character who nevertheless carries the kind of gravitas that only a veteran movie star like Kevin Costner can bring.
    — Noel Murray, Vulture, 18 Nov. 2024
Definition of ornery
Adjective
  • Lauren handles the allegations as well as can be expected of someone in her position: with increasingly desperate and tearful pleas to Dave to see reason, culminating in exasperated defeat.
    — Anusha Praturu, Vulture, 7 Mar. 2025
  • The stiff, exasperated rule-followers voters love to see lose.
    — Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 3 Mar. 2025
Definition of exasperated
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