Related Searches
on Ask.com
querulous - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | querulous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | grouchy, hard to please |
| Synonyms: | cantankerous, captious, carping, censorious, complaining, critical, cross, crying, discontented, dissatisfied, edgy, fault-finding, fretful, grumbling, irritable, lamenting, petulant, plaintive, snappy, sour, testy, uptight, waspish, bearish, bemoaning, deploring, grousing, grumbly, huffy irascible*, out of sorts peevish*, scrappy, thin-skinned touchy*, wailing, waspy, whimpering, whining, whiny |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, happy, easy-going |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | contentious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | quarrelsome |
| Synonyms: | antagonistic, argumentative, belligerent, combative, disagreeable, factious, perverse, petulant, querulous, testy |
| 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: | demanding |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | challenging, urgent |
| Synonyms: | ambitious, bothersome, clamorous, critical, dictatorial, difficult, exacting, exigent, fussy, grievous, hard, imperious, importunate, insistent, onerous, oppressive, pressing, querulous, strict, stringent, taxing, tough, troublesome, trying, wearing, weighty, backbreaker, exhausting, nagging |
| Antonyms: | easy, facile, trivial, unchallenging, undemanding |
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
| 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: | fussy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | meticulous, particular |
| Synonyms: | careful, choosy, conscientious, dainty, difficult, discriminating, exact, exacting, fastidious, finicky, fretful, fuddy-duddy*, heedful, painstaking, persnickety, picky, punctilious, punctual, querulous, scrupulous, squeamish, conscionable, finical, hard to please, nit-picking, overfastidious, picky-picky, stickling |
| Antonyms: | uncritical, undemanding, unfussy |
* = 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: | nervous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | anxious, fearful |
| Synonyms: | afraid, agitated, annoyed, apprehensive, basket case*, bothered, concerned, distressed, disturbed, edgy, excitable, fidgety, fitful, fussy*, hesitant, high-strung*, hysterical, irritable, jittery*, jumpy*, nervy*, neurotic, on edge*, overwrought, querulous, restive, sensitive, shaky*, shrinking, shy, skittish, snappish, solicitous, taut, tense, timid, timorous, troubled, uneasy, unstrung, upset, uptight, volatile, weak, wired*, worried, flustered, ruffled, spooked, twitchy, unrestful |
| Antonyms: | brave, calm, unafraid, unnervous, unworried |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | 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: | 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | complaining |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | objecting |
| Synonyms: | critical, discontented, grumbling, lamenting, malcontent, mourning, peevish, querulous, weeping, accusing, bellyaching, bewailing, charging, deploring, disapproving, dissenting, fretting, moaning, murmuring, protesting, regretting, repining, resentful, whining |
| Antonyms: | appreciating, enjoying, praising |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
Cite This Source
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
Cite This Source
Copyright © 2009, Dictionary.com, LLC. All rights reserved.
