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View synonyms for ill temper

ill temper

noun

  1. bad or irritable disposition.


ill temper

noun

  1. bad temper; irritability
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other Words From

  • ill-tempered adjective
  • ill-tempered·ly adverb
  • ill-tempered·ness noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of ill temper1

First recorded in 1595–1605
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Example Sentences

Her son laughed at his mother’s ill temper.

Such a choice almost certainly would have ended in death, either from starvation, exposure or from the ill temper of another grizzly.

Brimming with regret and felled by his own ill temper, Springsteen’s narrator hits rock bottom — quite literally — with “Stones.”

From Salon

Eerily, they were given a precise phenotypic marker, a blemish above the left eyebrow, and were given, too, the ill temper associated with age.

Part of the ill temper was produced by the death of Bobby Kennedy only two and a half months earlier.

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