Usually means: Hostile or unpleasant in disposition.
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We found 20 dictionaries that define the word ill-natured:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. ill-natured: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. ill-natured: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ill-natured: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ill-natured, ill-natured: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ill-natured: Vocabulary.com
  6. Ill-natured, ill-natured: Wordnik
  7. ill-natured: Wiktionary
  8. ill-natured: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. ill-natured: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Ill-natured, ill-natured: Dictionary.com
  11. Ill-Natured: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Ill-natured: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. ill-natured: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. ill-natured: Rhymezone
  15. Ill-natured: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. ill-natured: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. ill-natured: Free Dictionary
  18. ill-natured: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. ill-natured: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ill-natured: Legal dictionary

(Note: See ill-naturedly as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (ill-natured)

adjective:  Having a bad nature, whether
adjective:  Synonym of bad-tempered: easily or characteristically angered.
adjective:  Synonym of malevolent: wishing bad upon others.

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