ill-humored

The word “ill-humored” has 3 syllables: ill-hu-mored

It's pronounced as /ɪl ˈhjuː.mərd/


What is synonym and antonym for ill-humored?

In the thesaurus, “ill-humored” has 209 synonyms and 50 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for ill-humored along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for ill-humored

  • abrupt
  • acid
  • acrid
  • acrimonious
  • anal
  • angry
  • annoyed
  • argumentative
  • awkward
  • bad-humored
  • bad-tempered
  • bearish
  • bilious
  • bloody-minded
  • blue
  • bluff
  • blunt
  • brief
  • brooding
  • brusque
  • cantankerous
  • capricious
  • captious
  • carping
  • catty
  • caviling
  • changeable
  • cheerless
  • choleric
  • chuffy
  • churlish
  • complaining
  • contentious
  • contrary
  • crabbed
  • crabby
  • cranky
  • crestfallen
  • critical
  • cross
  • crotchety
  • crusty
  • crybaby
  • curt
  • cussed
  • cynical
  • depressed
  • difficult
  • dirty
  • disagreeable
  • dismal
  • disobliging
  • displeased
  • disputatious
  • dissatisfied
  • doleful
  • dolorous
  • dour
  • down
  • down in the dumps
  • down in the mouth
  • downcast
  • dull
  • dyspeptic
  • easily offended
  • erratic
  • exasperated
  • fault-finding
  • faultfinding
  • fickle
  • fiery
  • fitful
  • flighty
  • fractious
  • fretful
  • fretting
  • frowning
  • fussy
  • gloomy
  • glowering
  • glum
  • got up on wrong side of bed
  • grouchy
  • gruff
  • grumbling
  • grumpy
  • harsh
  • hasty
  • having blue devils
  • having the blahs
  • heavy
  • hostile
  • hot
  • hot-tempered
  • huffy
  • hypercritical
  • ill-natured
  • ill-tempered
  • impatient
  • impulsive
  • in a bad mood
  • in a blue funk
  • in a huff
  • in the doldrums
  • indignant
  • inert
  • introspective
  • irascible
  • irate
  • irritable
  • like a bear
  • low
  • lugubrious
  • mad
  • malevolent
  • malicious
  • malign
  • mean
  • melancholy
  • mercurial
  • misanthropic
  • miserable
  • moody
  • moping
  • morose
  • mournful
  • mumpish
  • nasty
  • nasty-tempered
  • obstinate
  • offended
  • old-maidish
  • ornery
  • out of humor
  • out of sorts
  • oversensitive
  • peeved
  • peevish
  • pensive
  • peppery
  • perverse
  • perversive
  • pessimistic
  • pettish
  • petulant
  • piqued
  • plaintive
  • pouting
  • pouty
  • prickly
  • put out
  • quarrelsome
  • querulous
  • quick-tempered
  • ratty
  • resentful
  • sad
  • sarcastic
  • saturnine
  • schoolmarmish
  • scornful
  • sensitive
  • short
  • short-tempered
  • silent
  • singing the blues
  • snappish
  • snappy
  • snarling
  • snippety
  • snippy
  • somber
  • sour
  • sourpussed
  • spiteful
  • splenetic
  • stubborn
  • sulking
  • sulky
  • sullen
  • surly
  • taciturn
  • tart
  • temperamental
  • tempersome
  • tenebrific
  • tenebrous
  • tense
  • testy
  • tetchy
  • touchy
  • tough
  • troubled
  • trying
  • ugly
  • unfriendly
  • ungracious
  • unkind
  • unpleasant
  • unsociable
  • upset
  • uptight
  • vexed
  • vinegarish
  • vinegary
  • waspish
  • whining
  • whiny
  • withdrawn

Antonyms for ill-humored

  • agreeable
  • amiable
  • amicable
  • animated
  • balanced
  • benign
  • bright
  • bubbly
  • calm
  • cheerful
  • cheery
  • congenial
  • content
  • easy
  • easygoing
  • effervescent
  • exuberant
  • flexible
  • friendly
  • gentle
  • glad
  • good-humored
  • good-natured
  • good-tempered
  • grinning
  • happy
  • high-spirited
  • joyful
  • kind
  • light-hearted
  • lighthearted
  • lively
  • long-suffering
  • nice
  • optimistic
  • overjoyed
  • patient
  • placid
  • pleasant
  • pliable
  • pliant
  • polite
  • serene
  • soft
  • soggy
  • sweet
  • tolerant
  • uplifted
  • vivacious
  • willing

Meanings of ill-humored

  • adjective
    1. Having a bad temper.
    2. Irritable in a surly manner.

Example Sentences

  • Despite his reputation for being ill-humored, he surprised everyone by cracking a joke at the meeting.
  • The ill-humored cashier barely acknowledged the customers as they approached the counter.
  • The ill-humored atmosphere in the office lifted when the team received news of their successful project.
  • She avoided engaging in conversation with her ill-humored neighbor to prevent any potential conflicts.
  • His ill-humored demeanor often made it difficult for others to approach him for help or advice.

On this page you'll find 259 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to ill-humored, such as: abrupt, acid, acrid, acrimonious, agreeable, amiable, amicable.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

haggled

  • aggravated
  • angered
  • angry
  • annoyed
  • argued
  • badgered
  • bargained
  • bartered
  • bearish
  • bedeviled
  • bickered
  • bilious
  • bothered
  • bought
  • bristly
  • cantankerous
  • chaffered
  • choleric
  • churlish
  • clashed
  • comparison shopped
  • crabby
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  • cross
  • cut a deal
  • dealt
  • dickered
  • disapproving
  • displeased
  • distressed
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  • dyspeptic
  • enflamed
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  • exchanged
  • fought
  • fretful
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  • fussy
  • galled
  • grouchy
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  • harassed
  • harried
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  • hawked
  • horse-traded
  • huffy
  • ill-humored
  • inconvenienced
  • indignant
  • inflamed
  • infuriated
  • irascible
  • irate
  • ireful
  • irked
  • irritable
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  • mad
  • narked
  • negotiated
  • outraged
  • paltered
  • peddled
  • peeved
  • peevish
  • persecuted
  • perturbed
  • pestered
  • petulant
  • pinpricked
  • piqued
  • plagued
  • provoked
  • purchased
  • put out
  • quarreled
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  • quibbled
  • rankled
  • resentful
  • riled
  • roiled
  • scunnered
  • shirty
  • snappish
  • snuffy
  • sore
  • squabbled
  • steaming
  • teed off
  • tested
  • testy
  • tormented
  • tortured
  • touchy
  • traded
  • tried
  • troubled
  • upset
  • vexed
  • wheeled and dealed
  • wrangled

mad

  • aberrant
  • absurd
  • acrid
  • acrimonious
  • acrimoniousness
  • acrimony
  • affront
  • aggravate
  • aggravated
  • aggravation
  • agitated
  • air rage
  • airheaded
  • amok
  • amuck
  • anger
  • angered
  • angriness
  • angry
  • animosity
  • annoy
  • annoyance
  • annoyed
  • antagonism
  • antagonistic
  • antagonize
  • antipathetic
  • antipathy
  • antisocial
  • ape
  • apoplectic
  • ardent
  • argumentative
  • around the bend
  • asinine
  • avid
  • ballistic
  • balmy
  • bananas
  • barmy
  • bats
  • batty
  • bearish
  • bedlam
  • belligerence
  • belligerent
  • bent out of shape
  • berserk
  • bile
  • bilious
  • biliousness
  • birdbrained
  • birse
  • bitter
  • bitterness
  • blowup
  • blue in the face
  • boiling
  • bonkers
  • boobish
  • brain-dead
  • brainless
  • brainsick
  • bristling
  • bristly
  • bubbleheaded
  • buffoonish
  • bughouse
  • burning
  • cantankerous
  • certifiable
  • chafe
  • cheesed off
  • choler
  • choleric
  • chowderheaded
  • chuckleheaded
  • churlish
  • clownish
  • clueless
  • cockeyed
  • cold
  • concentrated
  • contempt
  • contentious
  • contentiousness
  • contrariness
  • contrary
  • cool
  • crabby
  • crackbrained
  • cracked
  • crackers
  • crackpot
  • crankiness
  • cranky
  • crazed
  • crazy
  • cross
  • cuckoo
  • daffy
  • daft
  • dander
  • delirious
  • delirium
  • delusional
  • delusionary
  • demented
  • dense
  • depressed
  • deranged
  • devoted
  • dim
  • dim-witted
  • dippy
  • disagreeable
  • disapproving
  • disordered
  • disputatious
  • disputatiousness
  • distant
  • distracted
  • distraught
  • disturbed
  • doltish
  • dopey
  • dopy
  • dorky
  • dotty
  • dudgeon
  • dull
  • dumb
  • dunderheaded
  • dyspeptic
  • eccentric
  • embitter
  • embittered
  • embitterment
  • empoisonment
  • empty-headed
  • enamoured
  • enflame
  • enflamed
  • enmity
  • enrage
  • enraged
  • enthused
  • envenom
  • envy
  • exasperate
  • exasperated
  • exasperation
  • excessive
  • exorbitant
  • extravagant
  • extreme
  • fallacious
  • fanatical
  • farcical
  • fatuous
  • featherheaded
  • feebleminded
  • ferocious
  • feverish
  • fey
  • fierce
  • fit to be tied
  • fixated
  • flare
  • flare-up
  • foaming
  • fond
  • fool
  • foolhardy
  • foolish
  • frantic
  • frenetic
  • frenzied
  • fretful
  • frigid
  • fruity
  • fuming
  • furious
  • furor
  • fury
  • fussy
  • gaga
  • get
  • going crook
  • gormless
  • grouchy
  • grudge
  • grumpy
  • half-baked
  • half-witted
  • harebrained
  • haywire
  • heat
  • high-pressured
  • hooked
  • hopping
  • hopping mad
  • horn-mad
  • hostility
  • hot
  • hot under the collar
  • hot-headedness
  • huff
  • huffy
  • hysteric
  • hysterical
  • icy
  • idiotic
  • idiotical
  • ill-advised
  • ill-humored
  • ill-tempered
  • illogical
  • imbecile
  • imbecilic
  • immoderate
  • impassioned
  • impractical
  • imprudent
  • in a fume
  • in a huff
  • in a pet
  • incense
  • incensed
  • indignant
  • indignation
  • inept
  • infatuated
  • inflame
  • inflamed
  • inflammable
  • infuriate
  • infuriated
  • inimical
  • inordinate
  • insane
  • intense
  • intensive
  • invalid
  • irascibility
  • irascible
  • irascibleness
  • irate
  • irateness
  • ire
  • ireful
  • irrational
  • irritability
  • irritable
  • irritate
  • irritated
  • irritation
  • jaundice
  • jealousy
  • jerky
  • keen
  • knuckleheaded
  • kookie
  • kooky
  • lamebrain
  • lamebrained
  • laughable
  • lavish
  • livid
  • lividity
  • lividness
  • loco
  • looney
  • looney tunes
  • loony
  • loony tunes
  • loopy
  • ludicrous
  • lunatic
  • lunkheaded
  • madden
  • madness
  • malevolence
  • malevolent
  • malice
  • maniac
  • maniacal
  • mental
  • meshuga
  • meshugah
  • meshuggah
  • meshugge
  • miff
  • mindless
  • monomaniac
  • monomaniacal
  • mood
  • moonstruck
  • moronic
  • nettle
  • neurotic
  • non compos mentis
  • nonrational
  • nonsensical
  • notional
  • nuclear
  • nuts
  • nutty
  • oafish
  • obsessed
  • obsessive-compulsive
  • obtuse
  • odd
  • oddball
  • of unsound mind
  • off
  • offend
  • opaque
  • orneriness
  • ornery
  • out to lunch
  • outburst
  • outrage
  • outraged
  • overmuch
  • overweening
  • paranoiac
  • paranoic
  • paranoid
  • paranoidal
  • passion
  • passionate
  • peeve
  • peevish
  • perturbed
  • pet
  • petulant
  • pinheaded
  • pique
  • piqued
  • pixilated
  • pixillated
  • potty
  • preposterous
  • provoke
  • psycho
  • psychotic
  • pugnacious
  • pugnaciousness
  • pugnacity
  • put out
  • quarrelsome
  • quarrelsomeness
  • queer
  • querulous
  • querulousness
  • quick-tempered
  • rabid
  • rage
  • raging
  • rancor
  • rancorous
  • rankle
  • rankled
  • ranting
  • raving
  • reckless
  • resentful
  • resentment
  • ridiculous
  • rile
  • riled
  • riley
  • rise
  • risky
  • road rage
  • roil
  • roiled
  • rub the wrong way
  • ruffle
  • sappy
  • scatty
  • schizoid
  • schizophrenic
  • screwball
  • screwy
  • seeing red
  • seething
  • senseless
  • shirty
  • silly
  • simple
  • simpleminded
  • sizzling
  • slow
  • slow burn
  • slow-witted
  • smoldering
  • smouldering
  • snappish
  • sociopathic
  • soft
  • softheaded
  • sore
  • sorehead
  • soreheaded
  • spite
  • spiteful
  • spleen
  • steam up
  • steamed up
  • steaming
  • stormy
  • strange
  • stupid
  • sulky
  • surd
  • teched
  • teed off
  • temper
  • testy
  • tetched
  • thick
  • thickheaded
  • thoughtless
  • tick off
  • ticked
  • tomfool
  • touched
  • touchy
  • unbalanced
  • unconscionable
  • unconsidered
  • undue
  • unfriendly
  • unhinged
  • unintelligent
  • unpleasant
  • unreasonable
  • unreasoned
  • unreasoning
  • unsafe
  • unsound
  • unstable
  • unwise
  • vacuous
  • vehement
  • vengeful
  • vengefulness
  • venom
  • very upset
  • vex
  • vexation
  • vindictive
  • vindictiveness
  • violent
  • virulence
  • virulent
  • vitriol
  • vitriolic
  • wacko
  • wacky
  • warmth
  • weak
  • weak-minded
  • whacko
  • whacky
  • wigged-out
  • wild
  • witless
  • worked up
  • wrath
  • wrathful
  • wrathfulness
  • wroth
  • wud
  • zany
  • zealous

narked

  • affronted
  • aggravated
  • agitated
  • angered
  • angry
  • annoyed
  • antagonized
  • ate
  • badgered
  • baited
  • ballyragged
  • bearish
  • bedeviled
  • bilious
  • bothered
  • bristly
  • bugged
  • bullyragged
  • cantankerous
  • chafed
  • choleric
  • churlish
  • crabby
  • cranky
  • cross
  • deviled
  • devilled
  • disapproving
  • discomforted
  • discomposed
  • displeased
  • disquieted
  • distressed
  • disturbed
  • dyspeptic
  • enflamed
  • enraged
  • exasperated
  • exercised
  • fretful
  • fretted
  • frosted
  • frustrated
  • fussy
  • galled
  • got
  • got to
  • grated
  • griped
  • grouchy
  • grumpy
  • haggled
  • hagrode
  • harassed
  • harried
  • hassled
  • heckled
  • huffy
  • ill-humored
  • incensed
  • inconvenienced
  • indignant
  • inflamed
  • infuriated
  • insulted
  • irascible
  • irate
  • ireful
  • irked
  • irritable
  • irritated
  • itched
  • mad
  • maddened
  • miffed
  • nagged
  • nettled
  • offended
  • outraged
  • peeved
  • peevish
  • persecuted
  • perturbed
  • pestered
  • petulant
  • pinpricked
  • piqued
  • plagued
  • provoked
  • put out
  • rankled
  • rasped
  • resentful
  • riled
  • roiled
  • roused
  • rubbed the wrong way
  • ruffled
  • scunnered
  • shirty
  • snappish
  • snuffy
  • sore
  • spited
  • steaming
  • teased
  • teed off
  • tested
  • testy
  • tormented
  • tortured
  • touchy
  • tried
  • troubled
  • undid
  • unhinged
  • unsettled
  • upset
  • vexed
  • vext
  • wore on
  • worried

quarrelsome

  • acidic
  • aggressive
  • agonistic
  • antagonistic
  • argumentative
  • assaultive
  • bad-tempered
  • balky
  • battling
  • bearish
  • bellicose
  • belligerent
  • bilious
  • brawling
  • brawly
  • bristly
  • cantankerous
  • captious
  • cat-and-dog
  • chippy
  • choleric
  • churlish
  • combative
  • confrontational
  • contentious
  • contrary
  • controversial
  • crabby
  • cranky
  • cross
  • disagreeable
  • discordant
  • disobedient
  • disputatious
  • dissentious
  • dyspeptic
  • excitable
  • feisty
  • fierce
  • fiery
  • fighting
  • fractious
  • fretful
  • froward
  • gladiatorial
  • grouchy
  • grumpy
  • hardheaded
  • hasty
  • have chip on shoulder
  • headstrong
  • hostile
  • hot-tempered
  • hotheaded
  • huffy
  • ill-humored
  • ill-natured
  • ill-tempered
  • impassioned
  • insubordinate
  • intractable
  • irascible
  • irritable
  • litigious
  • militant
  • mulish
  • obdurate
  • obstinate
  • on the warpath
  • ornery
  • passionate
  • peevish
  • perverse
  • pettish
  • petulant
  • pigheaded
  • polemic
  • polemical
  • prickly
  • pugnacious
  • querulous
  • recalcitrant
  • refractory
  • resistant
  • restive
  • ructious
  • rude
  • savage
  • scrappy
  • self-opinionated
  • self-willed
  • snappish
  • snappy
  • splenetic
  • stroppy
  • stubborn
  • surly
  • tempestuous
  • testy
  • thin-skinned
  • touchy
  • truculent
  • turbulent
  • ugly
  • unbending
  • uncompromising
  • uncooperative
  • unreasonable
  • unruly
  • unyielding
  • vicious
  • violent
  • war
  • warlike
  • warring
  • waspish
  • wayward
  • wilful
  • willful

rabid

  • acrid
  • acrimonious
  • aggravated
  • aggressive
  • agitated
  • angered
  • angry
  • annoyed
  • antagonistic
  • antipathetic
  • antisocial
  • apoplectic
  • argumentative
  • assertive
  • ballistic
  • bang-bang
  • barbarous
  • bearish
  • bellicose
  • belligerent
  • bent out of shape
  • berserk
  • bigoted
  • bilious
  • bitten
  • bitter
  • blood-and-guts
  • blue in the face
  • boiling
  • bristling
  • bristly
  • brutal
  • burning
  • cantankerous
  • cataclysmal
  • cataclysmic
  • cheesed off
  • choleric
  • churlish
  • cold
  • combative
  • combustible
  • concentrated
  • contentious
  • contrary
  • convulsive
  • cool
  • corybantic
  • crabby
  • cranky
  • crazed
  • crazy
  • cross
  • cyclonic
  • delirious
  • demented
  • deranged
  • destructive
  • disagreeable
  • disapproving
  • disputatious
  • distant
  • dyspeptic
  • embittered
  • enflamed
  • enraged
  • enthusiastic
  • exasperated
  • excessive
  • exorbitant
  • explosive
  • extravagant
  • extreme
  • extremist
  • fanatic
  • fanatical
  • ferocious
  • fervent
  • feverish
  • fierce
  • fit to be tied
  • flipped
  • foaming
  • foaming at the mouth
  • frantic
  • freaked-out
  • frenetic
  • frenzied
  • fretful
  • frigid
  • fuming
  • furious
  • fussy
  • gladiatorial
  • going crook
  • grouchy
  • grumpy
  • hammer-and-tongs
  • high-pressured
  • hog-wild
  • hopping
  • hopping mad
  • horn-mad
  • hostile
  • hot
  • hot under the collar
  • huffy
  • icy
  • ill-humored
  • ill-tempered
  • immoderate
  • in a fume
  • in a huff
  • in a pet
  • incensed
  • indignant
  • inflamed
  • inflammable
  • infuriate
  • infuriated
  • inimical
  • inordinate
  • insane
  • intemperate
  • intense
  • intensive
  • intolerant
  • irascible
  • irate
  • ireful
  • irrational
  • irritable
  • keen
  • knock-down-and-drag-out
  • lavish
  • livid
  • lunatic
  • mad
  • mad-dog
  • malevolent
  • maniac
  • maniacal
  • narrow-minded
  • nutty
  • obsessed
  • ornery
  • outraged
  • overboard
  • overmuch
  • overweening
  • paroxysmal
  • passionate
  • peevish
  • perturbed
  • petulant
  • piqued
  • poisoned
  • pugnacious
  • put out
  • quarrelsome
  • querulous
  • quick-tempered
  • radical
  • raging
  • rancorous
  • rankled
  • ranting
  • raving
  • reactionary
  • resentful
  • revolutionary
  • revolutionist
  • riled
  • riley
  • roiled
  • rough
  • ruinous
  • savage
  • seething
  • shirty
  • sick
  • sizzling
  • smoking
  • smoldering
  • smouldering
  • snappish
  • sore
  • sorehead
  • soreheaded
  • spiteful
  • steamed up
  • steaming
  • stormy
  • subversive
  • sulky
  • teed off
  • tempestuous
  • testy
  • ticked
  • touchy
  • truculent
  • tumultuous
  • turbulent
  • ultra
  • ultraist
  • unconscionable
  • undue
  • unfriendly
  • unpleasant
  • vehement
  • vengeful
  • vicious
  • vindictive
  • violent
  • virulent
  • vitriolic
  • volatile
  • volcanic
  • wild
  • worked up
  • wrathful
  • wroth
  • zealous

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