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irritable - 20 thesaurus results
Main Entry: irritable
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: bad-tempered, crabby
Synonyms: annoyed, cantankerous, carping, choleric, complaining, contentious, cross, crotchety, disputatious, dissatisfied, dyspeptic, fiery, fractious, fretful, gloomy, grouchy, grumbling, hasty, hot, huffy, hypercritical, irascible, moody, morose, peevish, petulant, plaintive, prickly, querulous, quick-tempered, sensitive, snappy, surly, tense, testy, touchy, bearish, brooding, crabbed, easily offended, exasperated, fretting, ill-humored, out of humor, oversensitive, resentful, snarling
Antonyms: cheerful, happy, nice
Main Entry: angry
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: being mad, often extremely mad
Synonyms: annoyed, bitter, choleric, cross, displeased, enraged, ferocious, fierce, fiery, furious, hateful, heated, hot, huffy, ill-tempered, impassioned, incensed, indignant, inflamed, infuriated, irascible, irate, irritable, irritated, offended, provoked, raging, sore, sulky, sullen, tumultous/tumultuous, turbulent, uptight, wrathful, affronted, antagonized, chafed, convulsed, exacerbated, exasperated, fuming, galled, ireful, maddened, nettled, outraged, piqued, resentful, riled, splenetic, storming, vexed
Antonyms: calm, collected, content, happy, joyful, joyous
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: captious
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: very critical
Synonyms: acrimonious, cantankerous, carping, censorious, contrary, crabby, cross, demanding, disparaging, exacting, fault-finding, finicky, hypercritical, irritable, peevish, perverse, petulant, sarcastic, severe, testy, touchy, caviling, cavillous, deprecating, exceptive, nagging, nit-picking, overcritical
Antonyms: complimentary, encouraging, flattering, laudatory, commendatory, praising
Main Entry: crabby/crabbed
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: in a bad mood
Synonyms: acid, acrid, acrimonious, awkward, bad-tempered, blunt, brusque, captious, choleric, churlish, cranky*, cross, crotchety, crusty*, cynical, difficult, dour, fretful, gloomy, glum, grouchy*, harsh, huffy, ill-tempered, irascible, irritable, misanthropic, morose, peevish, perverse, petulant, prickly, saturnine, snappish, snappy, sour, sulky, sullen, surly, tart, testy, tough, trying, unsociable, ill-humored, nasty-tempered, splenetic
Antonyms: happy
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: edgy
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: nervous
Synonyms: anxious, critical, excitable, excited, high-strung, ill at ease, impatient, irascible, irritable, restive, restless, skittish, tense, touchy, uneasy, uptight, keyed up, overstrung
Antonyms: calm, composed, laid-back, easy-going
Main Entry: fiery
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: passionate; on fire
Synonyms: ablaze, afire, alight, blazing, burning, choleric, combustible, enthusiastic, excitable, febrile, fervid, feverish, fierce, flaming, flickering, flushed, glowing, heated, hot, hot-tempered*, impassioned, impetuous, impulsive, inflamed, intense, irascible, irritable, madcap, peppery, precipitate, red-hot*, spirited, unrestrained, vehement, violent, aflame, agitable, conflagrant, fevered, flaring, hot-blooded, hot-headed, igneous, ignited, in flames, perfervid
Antonyms: cold, cool, dull, flat, impassive, subdued
Main Entry: fractious
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: grouchy, cross
Synonyms: awkward, captious, crabby*, disorderly, fretful, froward, huffy*, indomitable, intractable, irritable, mean, ornery*, peevish, perverse, petulant, querulous, recalcitrant, refractory, restive, snappish, testy, thin-skinned, touchy, undisciplined, unmanageable, unruly, wayward, wild, indocile, pettish, scrappy, uncompliant
Notes: factious means addicted to forming parties and raise dissensions in opposition to government or the common good, while fractious means tending to cause trouble or unruly or irritable
Antonyms: agreeable, complaisant, happy, nice, patient
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: 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-natured
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: bad-tempered
Synonyms: catty, churlish, crabby, cross, crotchety, dirty*, disagreeable, disobliging, dyspeptic, hot-tempered, irritable, malevolent, malicious, mean, nasty, ornery*, perverse, petulant, spiteful, sulky, sullen, surly, temperamental, touchy, unfriendly, unkind, unpleasant, crabbed, cussed, ill-humored, tempersome
Antonyms: friendly, good-natured, nice, pleasant, good-tempered
Main Entry: impatient
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: unable, unwilling to wait
Synonyms: abrupt, agog, antsy, anxious, appetent, ardent, athirst, avid, breathless, brusque, chafing, choleric, curt, demanding, dying to, eager, edgy, feverish, fretful, hasty, having short fuse, headlong, hot under collar, hot-tempered, impetuous, indignant, intolerant, irascible, irritable, itchy, keen, on pins and needles, quick-tempered, racing one's motor, restless, ripe*, snappy, straining, sudden, testy, thirsty, unforbearing, unindulgent, vehement, violent
Antonyms: controlled, easy-going, enduring, forbearing, laid-back, patient, tolerant, waiting, willing
Main Entry: impolite
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: having bad manners
Synonyms: boorish, churlish, crude, discourteous, disrespectful, ill-mannered, indecorous, indelicate, insolent, irritable, loutish, moody, oafish, rough, rude, sullen, uncivil, ungracious, unmannerly, unrefined, bad-mannered, disgracious, ill-bred, unmannered
Antonyms: courteous, mannerly, polite
Main Entry: intolerant
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: impatient, prejudiced
Synonyms: antipathetic, averse, biased, bigoted, communist, conservative, contemptuous, dictatorial, disdainful, dogmatic, fanatical, fractious, hateful, illiberal, indignant, inflexible, irate, irritable, jaundiced, narrow, narrow-minded, obdurate, one-sided, racist, small-minded*, snappy, stuffy, uncharitable, unfair, unsympathetic, unwilling, upset, waspish, chauvinistic, individualistic, outraged, racialist, short-fuse, tilted, unforbearing, unindulgent, worked-up, xenophobic
Antonyms: fair, impartial, patient, tolerant, unprejudiced
Main Entry: irascible
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: crabby
Synonyms: angry, bristly, cantankerous, choleric, cranky, cross, feisty, fractious, grouchy, hasty, hot-tempered, huffy, irritable, ogre, passionate, peevish, petulant, querulous, quick-tempered, short-tempered, snappish, surly, testy, thin-skinned*, touchy, uptight, bearish, crabbed, ireful
Antonyms: cheerful, happy
Main Entry: moody
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: crabby, temperamental
Synonyms: angry, cantankerous, capricious, changeable, crestfallen, cross, dismal, doleful, dour, down in the mouth*, downcast, erratic, fickle, fitful, flighty, frowning, gloomy, glum, huffy, ill-tempered, impulsive, introspective, irascible, irritable, lugubrious, melancholy, mercurial, miserable, morose, offended, out of sorts*, pensive, petulant, sad, saturnine, short-tempered, sulky, sullen, testy, touchy, crabbed, down in the dumps, ill-humored, in a huff, in the doldrums, moping, piqued, splenetic
Antonyms: balanced, cheerful, happy, overjoyed
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