ill humour

1. 1.

   an angry and disagreeable mood

   Synonymsill humordistemper

   Broadertemper

   Narrowermoodinessirritability

Questions about ill humour

What does ill humour mean?

ill humour means "an angry and disagreeable mood".

What is another word for ill humour?

Close synonyms include ill humor, distemper. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ill humour a common word?

ill humour is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.