ILL HUMOUR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ill humour mean? 

• ILL HUMOUR (noun)
  The noun ILL HUMOUR has 1 sense:

1. an angry and disagreeable mood

  Familiarity information: ILL HUMOUR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ILL HUMOUR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An angry and disagreeable mood

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

distemper; ill humor; ill humour

Hypernyms ("ill humour" is a kind of...):

humor; humour; mood; temper (a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ill humour"):

moodiness (a sullen gloomy feeling)

choler; crossness; fretfulness; fussiness; irritability; peevishness; petulance (an irritable petulant feeling)

 Context examples 

Justine, you may remember, was a great favourite of yours; and I recollect you once remarked that if you were in an ill humour, one glance from Justine could dissipate it, for the same reason that Ariosto gives concerning the beauty of Angelica—she looked so frank-hearted and happy.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

She had neither sympathy nor assistance from those who ought to have entered into her feelings and directed her taste; for Lady Bertram never thought of being useful to anybody, and Mrs. Norris, when she came on the morrow, in consequence of an early call and invitation from Sir Thomas, was in a very ill humour, and seemed intent only on lessening her niece's pleasure, both present and future, as much as possible.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)