Word Meaning
बद-मिज़ाजी
bad-mizājī
hinoun
Meaning
Ill-temperedness, petulance, or irritability of disposition.
Detailed Meaning
In classical Urdu poetry, 'bad-mizājī' denotes chronic irritability, sullenness, or ill-temper. In Mir's verse, it characterizes the poet's own pervasive melancholy and disillusionment, which sets him in unrelenting conflict with both heaven and earth.
Etymology
Compound of Persian 'bad' (bad, ill) and Arabic 'mizāj' (temperament, constitution), with the Persian abstract noun suffix '-ī'.
Usage
Commonly attributed in the ghazal tradition either to the haughty and petulant beloved or to the chronically melancholic lover himself.
Examples
constant bad-mizājī of the beloved
weary of his own bad-mizājī
Synonyms
चिड़चिड़ापनतुनक-मिज़ाजीबद-ख़लक़ी
Related Words
मिज़ाजबद-ख़ूईतुनक-मिज़ाजी