ill-natured

Questions about ill-natured

What does ill-natured mean?

ill-natured means "having an irritable and unpleasant disposition".

How many syllables are in ill-natured?

ill-natured has 3 syllables and divides as ill--natu-red under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is the opposite of ill-natured?

The recorded antonyms are good-natured.

Is ill-natured a common word?

ill-natured 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.