Indulging in moods of ill humour or depression; melancholy, gloomy; (now chiefly) given to unpredictable changes of mood, esp. sudden spells of…

= distempered, adj.1

Suffering from melancholy; given to causeless anger; melancholic.

Averse to society; disinclined to be sociable or friendly; morose, sullen.

Of a person's mood or character: gloomy, sad; sullen.

Sullen, frowning, scowling, melancholy.

Scottish. That ‘girns’; ill-humoured, snarling.

Angry; sullen. Obsolete.

Austere, severe, harsh, bitter, morose.

= tetrical, adj.

Of the bodily ‘humours’: Not properly tempered; disordered through excess or deficiency of some constituent; hence, of bodily or mental condition…

Of persons, or their attributes, behaviour, etc.: sullen, gloomy, sour-tempered, unsocial.

Of persons, their attributes, aspect, actions: Characterized by, or indicative of, gloomy ill-humour or moody silence.

Obstinate, stubborn; rudely or angrily curt or blunt. (Chiefly applied to persons.) Now only dialect.

Moody, peevish, ill-humoured. Obsolete.

Of persons and their attributes: Affected with gloom or depression of spirits; having dark or sullen looks.

Of a person, look, countenance, etc.: gloomy; sullen; glowering. Now rare.

Sullen, glum, adj.

Ill-humoured, pettish, sulky; saucy, haughty.

Subject to moods or humours; whimsical, capricious; peevish, ill-humoured. Cf. humorous, adj. 3. Now archaic.

Of the bodily humours: = distemperate, adj. 2. Hence, disturbed in humour, temper, or feelings; out of humour, vexed, troubled. Obsolete.

Peevish, sullen, bad-tempered. Now English regional (north-western).

Of persons, and their aspect and mode of speaking: Gloomy, morose, surly; = glum, adj. 1.

literary. Never laughing; morose, laughter-hating.

? Ill-humoured, peevish, dull. Obsolete. rare.

Surly, bad-tempered, unfriendly; (also) self-important.

Having or showing ill humour (see ill humour, n. 3); bad-tempered, morose.

Surly, cross, ill-humoured.

Sullenly angry; depressed in spirits; sulky.

sulking, sullen.

= tetric, adj.1

Of a person: slow-witted, stupid; foolish. Also: surly, sullen. Cf. sumphy adj. at sumph, n.1 derivatives.

Sulky, sullen.

Of persons and their actions: Silently and obstinately ill-humoured; showing a tendency to keep aloof from others and repel their advances by…

Sullen, sulky; displeased.

Sullen, shy and repellent in manner.

Of persons, their appearance, etc.: Gloomy, lowering, dark and sullen or dejected.

Glum, sullen, sulky.

= glumpy, adj.

Given to tiffs; in a tiff; pettish, ill-humoured; faddy.

Splenetic.

U.S. colloquial. Angry, sulky.

Having symptoms attributed to a disordered liver; producing such symptoms. In later use also: (figurative) irritable, peevish (cf. choleric, adj. 5a…

resembling or characteristic of a troglodyte.

Glum.

Out of humour; melancholy, sad. Cf. hump, n. 3.

Given to scowling; sullen, morose.