Local English word record

ill-humored

adjective · 1 sense

brusque and surly and forbidding

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Examples

  • crusty remarks
  • a crusty old man
  • his curmudgeonly temper
  • gruff manner
  • a gruff reply

Word relationships

Synonyms

crusty, curmudgeonly, gruff, ill-humoured

Source and method

This page uses the locally materialized K5English vocabulary cohort. WordNet, where present, is enrichment only and does not determine K-5 admission.

Princeton WordNet 3.0