| 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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