adj.

Having a bad temper; irritable.

illtemperedly ill'-tem'pered·ly adv.

adjective

Having or showing a bad temper: bad-tempered, cantankerous, crabbed, cranky, cross, disagreeable, fretful, grouchy, grumpy, irascible, irritable, nasty, peevish, petulant, querulous, snappish, snappy, surly, testy, ugly, waspish. Informal crabby, mean². Idioms: out of sorts. See attitude/good attitude/bad attitude/neutral attitude.

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The adjective has one meaning:

Meaning #1: perversely irritable
  Synonyms: crabbed, crabby, cross, fussy, grouchy, grumpy, bad-tempered

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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - gnaven, irritabel, hidsig, opfarende

Nederlands (Dutch)
humeurig

Français (French)
adj. - déplaisant, désagréable, de mauvaise humeur, grincheux

Deutsch (German)
adj. - schlecht gelaunt

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - αψίκορος, οργίλος

Italiano (Italian)
irritabile

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - desagradável

Русский (Russian)
раздражительный

Español (Spanish)
adj. - malhumorado, de mal carácter, de mal genio

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - elak, butter, retlig, på dåligt humör

中文（简体） (Chinese (Simplified))
坏脾气的, 易怒的

中文（繁體） (Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 壞脾氣的, 易怒的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 성마른, 까다로운, 성미가 괄괄한

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 怒りっぽい, 気難しい

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) سيئ المزاج‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮רגזן, רע-מזג‬

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