Ill-nature

  • 31ill-will — Synonyms and related words: acrimony, animosity, animus, bad blood, bad temper, bad will, bitter feeling, bitterness, blighting glance, despite, evil disposition, evil eye, feud, grudge, hard feelings, hostility, ill blood, ill feeling, ill… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 32ill-temper — n. Moroseness, sullenness, sulkiness, crabbedness, crossness, perverseness, bad temper. See ill nature …

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  • 33ill-will — n. Malevolence, unkindness, malice, enmity, hate, hatred, rancor, uncharitableness, ill nature, envy, grudge …

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  • 34ill — ill, sick Ill and sick share responsibilities in peculiar ways, and are not always interchangeable. To begin with, ill is more usually predicative (placed after a verb, as in She was ill), whereas sick occurs naturally in attributive position… …

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  • 35nature worship — nature worshiper. 1. a system of religion based on the deification and worship of natural forces and phenomena. 2. love of nature. [1865 70] * * * ▪ religion Introduction       system of religion based on the veneration of natural phenomena for… …

    Universalium

  • 36Ill — Ill, n. 1. Whatever annoys or impairs happiness, or prevents success; evil of any kind; misfortune; calamity; disease; pain; as, the ills of humanity. [1913 Webster] Who can all sense of others ills escape Is but a brute at best in human shape.… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 37Ill Met in Lankhmar — is a sword and sorcery novella by Fritz Leiber, recounting the meeting and teaming up of his adventurous duo, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser.First published in 1970 in the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction , it is the nature of a prequel, as… …

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  • 38Good nature — Nature Na ture (?; 135), n. [F., fr. L. natura, fr. natus born, produced, p. p. of nasci to be born. See {Nation}.] 1. The existing system of things; the universe of matter, energy, time and space; the physical world; all of creation. Contrasted… …

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  • 39In a state of nature — Nature Na ture (?; 135), n. [F., fr. L. natura, fr. natus born, produced, p. p. of nasci to be born. See {Nation}.] 1. The existing system of things; the universe of matter, energy, time and space; the physical world; all of creation. Contrasted… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 40To pay the debt of nature — Nature Na ture (?; 135), n. [F., fr. L. natura, fr. natus born, produced, p. p. of nasci to be born. See {Nation}.] 1. The existing system of things; the universe of matter, energy, time and space; the physical world; all of creation. Contrasted… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English