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Main Entry:	grumpy
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	in a bad mood
Synonyms:	bad-tempered, cantankerous, crabby, cross, crotchety, disgruntled, dissatisfied, grouchy*, grumbling, irritable, peevish, petulant, querulous, sulky, sullen, surly, testy, truculent, griping, pettish
Antonyms:	happy, nice, pleasant

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Main Entry:	cantankerous
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	difficult, crabby
Synonyms:	bad-tempered, captious, choleric, contrary, cranky, critical, cross, crotchety, crusty, disagreeable, dour, grouchy, grumpy, huffy, ill-natured, irascible, irritable, morose, obstinate, ornery, peevish, perverse, petulant, prickly, quarrelsome, snappish, sour, stuffy*, testy, bearish, ill-humored, vinegarish, vinegary
Antonyms:	easy, good-natured, happy, nice, pleasant

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Main Entry:	churlish
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	crude, boorish
Synonyms:	base, blunt, brusque, cantankerous, crude, crusty, curt, discourteous, dour, grouchy, gruff, grumpy, harsh, ill-tempered, impolite, loutish, mean, miserly, morose, oafish, ornery, rude, rustic, snippy, sullen, surly, touchy, ugly, uncivil, uncivilized, uncultured, unmannerly, unpolished, unsociable, vulgar, cloddish, clodhopping, crabbed, cussed, lowbred, unneighborly
Antonyms:	gentle, nice, pleasant, polite

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Main Entry:	cranky
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	in bad mood
Synonyms:	cantankerous, choleric, crabby, cross, crotchety, disagreeable, grouchy, grumpy, hot-tempered, irascible, irritable, mean, ornery*, out of sorts, perverse, quick-tempered, ratty, snappish, ugly, bad-humored, bearish, cussed, got up on wrong side of bed, ill-humored, like a bear, tetchy, vinegary
Antonyms:	amiable, cheerful, happy

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Main Entry:	cross
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	very angry; in a bad mood
Synonyms:	annoyed, cantankerous, captious, choleric, churlish, crabby, cranky, crotchety, crusty, disagreeable, faultfinding, fractious, fretful, grouchy, grumpy, ill-tempered, impatient, irascible, irritable, jumpy, peeved, peevish, petulant, put out*, querulous, quick-tempered, ratty, short, snappy, sullen, surly, testy, touchy, waspish, caviling, ill-humored, out of humor, pettish, splenetic, tetchy, vexed
Antonyms:	animated, cheerful, happy, pleasant

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Main Entry:	crotchety
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	irritable, often due to old age
Synonyms:	awkward, bad-tempered, cantankerous, contrary, crabby, cranky, cross, crusty, difficult, disagreeable, eccentric, fractious, grouchy, grumpy, irritable, obstinate, obstreperous, odd, ornery, peevish, queer, surly, testy, unusual, waspish, bearish, cross-grained, curmudgeonly, vinegary, waspy
Antonyms:	cheerful, happy, pleasant

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Main Entry:	disgruntled
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	unhappy; critical
Synonyms:	annoyed, crabby, cranky, disappointed, discontent, discontented, displeased, dissatisfied, grouchy, grumpy, irritable, irritated, malcontent, peeved, peevish, petulant, put out, sulky, sullen, testy, bad tempered, bellyaching, crabbing, griping, grousing, kicking, kvetching, malcontented, uncontent, ungratified, vexed
Antonyms:	contented, happy, pleased, satisfied, uncritical

Main Entry:	dissatisfied
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	discontented, unhappy
Synonyms:	annoyed, bothered, complaining, crabby, critical, disaffected, disappointed, disgruntled, displeased, envious, faultfinding, fretful, frustrated, grumbling, grumpy, insatiable, jaundiced, jealous, malcontent, offended, picky, plaintive, querulous, sulky, sullen, unsatisfied, begrudging, ennuied, fed-up, fretting, griping, grudging, irked, kvetching, malcontented, not satisfied, put-out, sniveling, unappeased, unassuaged, unfulfilled, ungratified, unsated, vexed
Notes:	only a person can be dissatisfied while an abstract thing can be unsatisfied (hunger) unsatisfied implies that a wish, need, or expectation that previously existed has not been satisfied; dissatisfied implies no such prior existence, but simply registers a failure to be satisfied
Antonyms:	contented, fulfilled, happy, pleased, satisfied, gratified

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Main Entry:	grim
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	hopeless, horrible in manner, appearance
Synonyms:	austere, barbarous, bleak, cantankerous, churlish, cruel, crusty, dogged, ferocious, fierce, forbidding, foreboding, formidable, frightful, funereal, ghastly, gloomy, glum, grisly, grouchy, gruesome, grumpy*, harsh, hideous, implacable, inexorable, intractable, merciless, morose, ominous, relentless, resolute, ruthless, severe, shocking, sinister, somber, sour, stern, stubborn, sulky, sullen, surly, terrible, truculent, unrelenting, unyielding, crabbed, glowering, horrid, scowling, splenetic
Antonyms:	bright, cheerful, happy, hopeful, joyful, sunny

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Main Entry:	grouchy
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	complaining, irritable
Synonyms:	cantankerous, cross, crusty, discontented, grumbling, grumpy*, ill-tempered, irascible, peevish, petulant, querulous, snappy, sulky, surly, testy
Antonyms:	complimentary, content, happy, pleased, satisfied, praising

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Main Entry:	huffy
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	angry, in a bad mood
Synonyms:	angered, annoyed, crabby, cross, crotchety, crusty, curt, disgruntled, fractious, grumpy, hurt, insulted, irritable, miffed, moody, offended, peeved, peevish, petulant, provoked, put out*, querulous, short, snappish, snappy, sulky, sullen, surly, testy, touchy, waspish, crabbed, exasperated, huffish, irked, moping, nettled, pettish, piqued, resentful, riled, stewed, vexed
Antonyms:	cheerful, delighted, happy, joyful

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Main Entry:	ill-tempered
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	irritable
Synonyms:	annoyed, bad-tempered, cantankerous, choleric, crabby, cross, crotchety, grouchy, grumpy, irascible, moody, nasty, quick-tempered, sharp, snappy, sour, spiteful, surly, testy, touchy, vicious, bearish

Main Entry:	ornery
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	mean
Synonyms:	cantankerous, contemptible, crabby, cranky, crusty, difficult, disagreeable, grouchy, grumpy*, hard-nosed, ignoble, ill-tempered, irritable, nasty, obstinate, quarrelsome, rotten, sour, surly, testy, unfriendly, vicious

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Main Entry:	peevish
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	irritable, testy
Synonyms:	acrimonious, angry, bad-tempered, cantankerous, captious, carping, childish, churlish, complaining, cranky, critical, cross, crotchety, crusty, fault-finding, fractious, fretful, grouchy, grumpy, huffy, ill-natured, mean, morose, obstinate, ogre, ornery, pertinacious, petulant, querulous, short-tempered, snappy, sulky, sullen, surly, touchy, ugly, waspish, caviling, crabbed, cussed, fretting, grousing, growling, out-of-sorts, splenetic, tetchy, waspy, whining
Antonyms:	friendly, happy, pleasant, accepting

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Main Entry:	plaintive
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	pathetic, woebegone
Synonyms:	cantankerous, crabby, cranky, disconsolate, doleful, grief-stricken, grievous, grumpy, heartrending, lamenting, lugubrious, melancholy, mournful, out of sorts, pathetic, piteous, pitiful, rueful, sad, sorrowful, wistful, woeful, beefing, bellyaching, grousing, saddening, wailing
Antonyms:	cheerful, happy

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Main Entry:	sulky
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	sullen
Synonyms:	cheerless, crabby, depressed, dismal, dour, fretful, frowning, gloomy, glum, gruff, grumpy, irritable, mean, moody, morose, obstinate, ornery*, sour, withdrawn, brooding, ill-humored, moping, pouting, pouty, sourpussed, sulking

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Main Entry:	sullen
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	brooding, upset
Synonyms:	bad-tempered, cheerless, churlish, crabby, cross, cynical, dismal, dour, dull, fretful, frowning, gloomy, glum, gruff, grumpy, heavy, hostile, inert, irritable, malevolent, malicious, malign, mean, moody, morose, obstinate, ornery, out of sorts, peevish, perverse, pessimistic, petulant, querulous, saturnine, silent, somber, sour, stubborn, sulky, surly, tenebrous, ugly, unsociable, uptight*, crabbed, glowering, ill-humored, pouting, pouty, sourpussed, sulking, tenebrific
Antonyms:	bright, cheerful, happy, grinning

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Main Entry:	testy
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	irritable, touchy
Synonyms:	annoyed, bad-tempered, cantankerous, captious, choleric, cranky, cross, crotchety, edgy, fretful, grouchy, grumpy, impatient, irascible, mean, ornery, out of sorts, peevish, peppery, petulant, quarrelsome, quick-tempered, short-tempered, snappy, sullen, thin-skinned, uptight, waspish, crabbed, exasperated, splenetic
Antonyms:	happy, pleasant

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Main Entry:	touchy
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	easily offended
Synonyms:	bad-tempered, cantankerous, captious, choleric, cranky, cross, delicate, dicey, grouchy, grumpy, hazardous, irascible, irritable, jumpy, mean, ornery, peevish, petulant, precarious, querulous, quick-tempered, risky, sensitive, surly, temperamental, testy, thin-skinned, ticklish, tricky, unpredictable, unsafe, uptight, volatile, bundle of nerves, crabbed, hypersensitive, oversensitive, perturbable, pettish, splenetic, wired up, wound up
Antonyms:	calm, easygoing, laid-back, unflappable

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Main Entry:	gruff
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	bad-tempered, rude
Synonyms:	abrupt, blunt, boisterous, boorish, brusque, churlish, crabby, crude, crusty, curt, discourteous, dour, fierce, grouchy, grumpy, ill-natured, impolite, morose, nasty, offhand, rough, saturnine, short, snappy, snippy, sour, sullen, surly, truculent, uncivil, ungracious, unmannerly, bearish, crabbed
Antonyms:	even-tempered, happy, nice, polite