Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

evil-tempered

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.50 in modern English

Syllables: evil-tem-pered
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Extremely bad-tempered.

Example Sentences

"I call him a fool; but he attends me still with the same unwearied smile, the same bland professional manner, the same neatly-trimmed red whiskers, till I begin to suspect that I am an ungrateful, evil-tempered invalid."

Inflected Forms

more evil-tempered (comparative) most evil-tempered (superlative)

Questions

What does evil-tempered mean?: Extremely bad-tempered.

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