BAD TEMPER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bad temper mean? 

• BAD TEMPER (noun)
  The noun BAD TEMPER has 1 sense:

1. a persisting angry mood

  Familiarity information: BAD TEMPER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BAD TEMPER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A persisting angry mood

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

bad temper; ill temper

Hypernyms ("bad temper" is a kind of...):

anger; choler; ire (a strong emotion; a feeling that is oriented toward some real or supposed grievance)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bad temper"):

irascibility; quick temper; short temper; spleen (a feeling of resentful anger)

conniption; fit; scene; tantrum (a display of bad temper)

 Context examples 

I huddled on my clothes and hurried downstairs in an exceedingly bad temper to order some hot water.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI) Does the patient have a bad temper, flying "off the handle" easily over little things?

(NPI - Bad Temper, Flying 'Off the Handle' Easily Over Little Things, NCI Thesaurus)

There are signs of rampant bad temper in the steerage, and the gossip is going around that Smoke and Henderson have had a fight.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The lynx's bad temper got the best of her.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

What a strange, unaccountable character!—for with all these symptoms of profligacy at ten years old, she had neither a bad heart nor a bad temper, was seldom stubborn, scarcely ever quarrelsome, and very kind to the little ones, with few interruptions of tyranny; she was moreover noisy and wild, hated confinement and cleanliness, and loved nothing so well in the world as rolling down the green slope at the back of the house.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)