Bad tempered and Cross-grained

Cross-grained and bad tempered are semantically related. in irritable topic. In some cases you can use "Cross-grained" instead an adjective phrase "Bad tempered".

Cross-grained adjective - Of timber; having fibers running irregularly rather than in parallel.

Bad tempered and cross-grained are semantically related. Sometimes you can replace phrase "Bad tempered" with "Cross-grained", this phrases are similar.