Peevish

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Querulous or discontented.
  • adj. Ill-tempered.
  • adj. Contrary; fractious.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Constantly complaining; fretful, whining.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Habitually fretful; easily vexed or fretted; hard to please; apt to complain; querulous; petulant.
  • adj. Expressing fretfulness and discontent, or unjustifiable dissatisfaction.
  • adj. Silly; childish; trifling.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Querulous; petulant; ill-tempered; cross; fitful.
  • Perverse; self-willed; forward; testy.
  • Characterized by or indicating discontent, petulancy, or fretfulness.
  • Childish; silly; foolish; trifling.
  • Synonyms Fretful, Pettish, etc. (see petulant), ill-natured, testy, irritable, waspish.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. easily irritated or annoyed
    • Equivalent
    ill-natured   
    Form
    peevishness    peevishly   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    testy    petulant    captious    fretful    discontented    ill-tempered    querulous    cross    silly    childish   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    fretful    petulant    morose    surly    ill-tempered    resentful    sullen    spiteful    choleric    unkind   
     
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