ill humour

Other forms: ill humours

Definitions of ill humour
  1. noun
    an angry and disagreeable mood
    synonyms: distemper, ill humor
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    moodiness
    a sullen gloomy feeling
    choler, crossness, fretfulness, fussiness, irritability, peevishness, petulance
    an irritable petulant feeling
    glumness, moroseness, sullenness
    a gloomy ill-tempered feeling
    testiness, tetchiness, touchiness
    feeling easily irritated
    pet
    a fit of petulance or sulkiness (especially at what is felt to be a slight)
    type of:
    humor, humour, mood, temper
    a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
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