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