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ILL HUMOUR
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An angry and disagreeable mood
Synonyms:
distemper; ill humor; ill humour
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
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)