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| Main Entry: | sulky |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sullen |
| Synonyms: | cheerless, crabby*, depressed, dismal, dour, fretful, frowning, gloomy, glum, gruff, grumpy*, irritable, mean, moody, morose, obstinate, ornery*, sour, withdrawn, brooding, ill-humored, moping, pouting, pouty, sourpussed, sulking |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | 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: | 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: | 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: | dour |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | gloomy, grim |
| Synonyms: | bleak, dismal, dreary, forbidding, glum, hard, harsh, morose, saturnine, severe, sour, stringent, sulky, sullen, surly, ugly, unfriendly, crabbed |
| Antonyms: | bright, cheerful, cheery, happy |
| Main Entry: | glum |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sullen |
| Synonyms: | blue, dejected, depressed, dismal, dispirited, down, gloomy, low, melancholy, morose, sad, sulky, bummed out |
| Main Entry: | grim |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hopeless, horrible in manner, appearance |
| Synonyms: | austere, barbarous, bleak, cantankerous, churlish, cruel, crusty, dogged, ferocious, fierce, forbidding, foreboding, formidable, frightful, funereal, ghastly, gloomy, glum, grisly, grouchy, gruesome, grumpy*, harsh, hideous, implacable, inexorable, intractable, merciless, morose, ominous, relentless, resolute, ruthless, severe, shocking, sinister, somber, sour, stern, stubborn, sulky, sullen, surly, terrible, truculent, unrelenting, unyielding, crabbed, glowering, horrid, scowling, splenetic |
| Antonyms: | bright, cheerful, happy, hopeful, joyful, sunny |
* = 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: | 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | morose |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | depressed, pessimistic |
| Synonyms: | acrimonious, blue*, brusque, cantankerous, choleric, churlish, crabby*, cranky*, cross, dolorous, dour, down, down in the mouth*, frowning, gloomy, glum, grouchy, gruff, harsh, ill-tempered, irritable, low, melancholy, moody, mournful, perverse, sad, saturnine, snappish, sour, sulky, sullen, surly, taciturn, testy, troubled, ugly, crabbed, down in the dumps, having blue devils, having the blahs, ill-humored, in a bad mood, in a blue funk, moping, perversive, singing the blues, splenetic |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, friendly, happy, optimistic, light-hearted, uplifted |
* = 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: | saturnine |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | gloomy |
| Synonyms: | blue*, cheerless, dejected, depressed, desolate, despondent, dispirited, dour, down, forlorn, glum, grave, hopeless, low, melancholy, miserable, morose, sad, solemn, sorrowful, sulky, sullen, unhappy, woebegone, woeful, down in the dumps, in low spirits, in the dumps, moping |
* = 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: | surly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | gruff, bearish |
| Synonyms: | boorish, brusque, churlish, cross, crusty, discourteous, dour, fractious, glum, grouchy, ill-mannered, ill-natured, irritable, morose, perverse, rude, saturnine, sulky, sullen, testy, ugly, uncivil, ungracious, curmudgeonly |
| Antonyms: | gentle, pleasant |
| Main Entry: | frowning |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | scowling |
| Synonyms: | grim, irritable, sulky, glowering |
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