ILL NATURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ill nature mean? 

• ILL NATURE (noun)
  The noun ILL NATURE has 1 sense:

1. a disagreeable, irritable, or malevolent disposition

  Familiarity information: ILL NATURE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ILL NATURE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A disagreeable, irritable, or malevolent disposition

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("ill nature" is a kind of...):

disposition; temperament (your usual mood)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ill nature"):

crabbedness; crabbiness; crossness (a disposition to be ill-tempered)

contrariness; crankiness; crotchetiness; grumpiness (a fussy and eccentric disposition)

moroseness; sourness; sulkiness; sullenness (a sullen moody resentful disposition)

biliousness; irritability; peevishness; pettishness; snappishness; surliness; temper (a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger)

impatience (a dislike of anything that causes delay)

shrewishness (a nature given to nagging or scolding)

asperity; sharpness (harshness of manner)

Antonym:

good nature (a cheerful, obliging disposition)

 Context examples 

Her complexion was sallow; and her features small, without beauty, and naturally without expression; but a lucky contraction of the brow had rescued her countenance from the disgrace of insipidity, by giving it the strong characters of pride and ill nature.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)