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- Dictionaryill-natured/ɪlˈneɪtʃəd/
adjective
- 1. bad-tempered or mean-spirited.
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Ill-natured means having a bad disposition, being cross or surly. Learn more about its synonyms, examples, word history and usage from the Merriam-Webster dictionary.
Ill-natured means unpleasant, unkind, or unfriendly. Learn how to use this adjective with sentences and synonyms from the Cambridge Dictionary.
Someone who's ill-natured is cranky and disagreeable. Most fairy tales have at least one ill-natured antagonist, an evil stepmother or a ferocious ogre. Mean and nasty people are sometimes just plain ill-natured — it's not in their nature to be generous and cheerful.
unpleasant, unkind, or unfriendly: The allegations are completely misguided and ill-natured. Ill-natured critics harass them with questions about their competence. Fewer examples. He had already shown himself to be malicious and ill-natured. His ill-natured dismissal didn't seem like an approach that was likely to bring about change.
Ill-natured means having or showing a habitually bad temper. Find 83 similar and opposite words for ill-natured, such as irritable, angry, disagreeable, or amiable, pleasant, agreeable, and more.
Ill-natured definition: having or showing an unkindly or unpleasant disposition.. See examples of ILL-NATURED used in a sentence.
Ill-natured means naturally unpleasant and mean, or having or showing an unkindly disposition. Learn the synonyms, antonyms, word origin, and usage of this adjective with examples from Collins English Dictionary.
