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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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | acrimonious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | nasty in behavior, speech |
| Synonyms: | acerbic, acid, angry, astringent, belligerent, biting, bitter, caustic, censorious, churlish, crabby, cranky, cross, cutting, indignant, irascible, irate, mad, mordant, peevish, petulant, sarcastic, sharp, spiteful, tart, testy, trenchant, wrathful, ireful, rancorous, splenetic |
| Antonyms: | kind, kindly, peaceable |
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | excitable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | easily upset or inspired |
| Synonyms: | demonstrative, edgy, emotional, enthusiastic, fidgety, fierce, fiery, hasty, high-strung, hot-tempered, hysterical, impatient, impetuous, impulsive, inflammable, intolerant, irascible, mercurial, moody, nervous, neurotic, passionate, peevish, quick, quick-tempered, rash, reckless, restless, sensitive, skittish, susceptible, temperamental, testy, touchy, uncontrolled, uneasy, vehement, violent, volatile, agitable, alarmable, galvanic, hot-headed, overzealous, short fused, volcanic |
| Antonyms: | calm, easy, insensitive, laid-back, passive, uninspired, easy-going, unexcitable |
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fretful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | irritable |
| Synonyms: | captious, carping*, complaining, contrary, crabby*, cranky*, critical, cross, crotchety*, edgy, faultfinding, fractious, huffy*, mean, ornery*, out of sorts*, peevish, perverse, petulant, querulous, short-tempered, snappish*, testy, touchy, uneasy, worried, wreck*, caviling, splenetic |
| Antonyms: | calm, happy, joyous, laid-back, pleased, cheered, easy-going, relaxed |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | petulant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crabby, moody |
| Synonyms: | bad-tempered, captious, complaining, cranky*, cross, crybaby*, displeased, fault-finding, fractious, fretful, grouchy, grumbling, huffy, impatient, irritable, mean, peevish, perverse, querulous, snappish, sour, sulky, sullen, testy, touchy, ungracious, uptight*, waspish, caviling, ill-humored, pouting, whining, whiny |
| Antonyms: | good-natured, happy, pleasant |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | quarrelsome |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | being disagreeable |
| Synonyms: | argumentative, bad-tempered, bellicose, belligerent, cantankerous, choleric, churlish, combative, contentious, crabby*, cross, disputatious, excitable, fiery, fractious, hasty, hotheaded*, huffy, impassioned, irascible, irritable, litigious, ornery, passionate, peevish, petulant, pugnacious, querulous, snappy, tempestuous, thin-skinned*, touchy, truculent, turbulent, unruly, violent, war, brawling, cat-and-dog, dissentious, gladiatorial, have chip on shoulder, pettish, ructious |
| Antonyms: | agreeable, forgiving, friendly, good-natured, happy, patient |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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