Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1.
having an irritable and unpleasant disposition;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Ill-natured \Ill`-na"tured\, a.
1. Of habitual bad temper; having an unpleasant disposition;
surly; disagreeable; cross; peevish; fractious; crabbed;
-- of people; as, an ill-natured person; an ill-natured
disagreeable old man. Opposite of good-natured.
[Narrower terms: argumentative, contentious,
disputatious, disputative, litigious : {atrabilious,
bilious, dyspeptic, liverish : {bristly, prickly,
snappish, splenetic, waspish : {cantankerous, crotchety,
ornery : {choleric, irascible, hotheaded, hot-headed,
hot-tempered, quick-tempered, short-tempered : {crabbed,
crabby, cross, fussy, fussbudgety, grouchy, grumpy,
bad-tempered, ill-tempered: cranky, fractious,
irritable, peevish, peckish, pettish, petulant, testy,
tetchy, techy : {crusty, curmudgeonly, gruff, ill-humored,
ill-humoured: dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose,
saturnine, sour, sullen : {feisty, touchy : {huffish,
sulky: misanthropic, misanthropical : {misogynous :
{shirty, snorty ill-tempered or annoyed): shrewish,
nagging, vixenish : {surly, ugly ] Also See: {unpleasant.
[1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5]
2. Dictated by, or indicating, ill nature; spiteful. "The
ill-natured task refuse." --Addison.
[1913 Webster]
3. Intractable; not yielding to culture. [R.] "Ill-natured
land." --J. Philips.
3. not to one's liking; unpleasant; disagreeable. Opposite of
agreeable. [WordNet sense 2] [Narrower terms: annoying,
galling, chafing, irritating, nettlesome, pesky,
pestiferous, pestilent, plaguy, plaguey, teasing,
vexatious, vexing; nerve-racking, nerve-wracking,
stressful, trying ]
Syn: disagreeable.
[WordNet 1.5] -- {Ill`-na"tured*ly, adv. --
Ill`-na"tured*ness, n.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
ill-natured
adj 1: having an irritable and unpleasant disposition [ant:
good-natured]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
21 Moby Thesaurus words for "ill-natured":
bad-tempered, bitter, crabbed, cranky, cross, crusty, dour,
evil-disposed, evil-tempered, gloomy, ill-affected,
ill-conditioned, ill-disposed, ill-humored, ill-intentioned,
ill-tempered, malevolent, morose, petulant, sour, sulky