| 单词 | ill-tempered |
| 释义 | ill-tempered (once / 6257 pages) adj If your mom is ill-tempered, she's cranky, or in a really bad mood. It's probably smarter to ask your cheerful grandma for a ride to school, instead of your ill-tempered mom. Whenever you find yourself in an irritable, grouchy mood, you're ill-tempered. A really good kindergarten teacher will save his ill-tempered remarks for when he goes home after school, and an ill-tempered high school volleyball coach may end up with players quitting the team. Everyone's ill-tempered from time to time — the word combines ill, "bad," and tempered, from temper, or "mood," from the Latin root temperare, "be moderate." WORD FAMILYtempered: ill-tempered, temperedest, temperedly, untempered+/distemper: distempered, distempering, distempers/intemperance: intemperances/temper: distemper, temperance, tempered, tempering, tempers/temperance: intemperance, temperances/tempering: temperings USAGE EXAMPLESAt home, he was the ill-tempered master of a mini harem. The Guardian(Dec 17, 2016) The ill-tempered owner, Basil Fawlty, ran the hotel with a blend of disdain and obsequiousness toward guests. New York Times(Dec 01, 2016) The other side was “angry, vindictive, ill-tempered, mean-spirited,” and there’s considerable evidence to support that, too. The New Yorker(Nov 17, 2016) adj annoyed and irritable Syn bad-tempered, crabbed, crabby, cross, fussy, grouchy, grumpy ill-natured having an irritable and unpleasant disposition |
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