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grumpy - 20 thesaurus results
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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