Usually means: Easily annoyed or made angry.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word bad-tempered:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. bad-tempered: Merriam-Webster
  2. bad-tempered: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bad-tempered, bad-tempered: Collins English Dictionary
  4. bad-tempered: Vocabulary.com
  5. bad-tempered: Wordnik
  6. bad-tempered: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. bad-tempered: Wiktionary
  8. bad-tempered: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. bad-tempered: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. bad-tempered: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. bad-tempered: Dictionary.com
  12. bad-tempered: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. bad-tempered: Rhymezone
  14. bad-tempered: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. bad-tempered: FreeDictionary.org
  16. bad-tempered: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. bad-tempered: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. bad-tempered: Merriam-Webster

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  1. bad-tempered: Legal dictionary

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  1. bad-tempered: Encyclopedia

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▸ adjective:  Of or pertaining to bad temper; showing anger easily or customarily.

Similar:
grumpy, ill-natured, crabby, crabbed, ill-tempered, grouchy, fussy, cross, badtempered, tempersome, more...

Opposite:
good-natured, amiable, affable, genial, pleasant

Types:
irritable, cranky, testy, tetchy, snappish, grouchy, grumpy, huffy, more...

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Similar:
grumpy, ill-natured, crabby, crabbed, ill-tempered, grouchy, fussy, cross, badtempered, tempersome, more...

Opposite:
good-natured, amiable, affable, genial, pleasant

Types:
irritable, cranky, testy, tetchy, snappish, grouchy, grumpy, huffy, more...



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