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: ill--natu-red. The stress falls on "ill-".

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.