Testy

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Irritated, impatient, or exasperated; peevish: a testy cab driver; a testy refusal to help.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Easily annoyed, irritable.
  • adj. Marked by impatience or ill humor.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Fretful; peevish; petulant; easily irritated.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Irritable; irascible; choleric; cross; petulant.
  • Synonyms Pettish, touchy, waspish, snappish, peevish, splenetic, captious, peppery.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. easily irritated or annoyed
  • Equivalent
    Cross Reference
    teston    heady   
    Variant
    testier    testiest   
    Form
    testily    testiness   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    fretful    peevish    petulant    irascible    touchy    tetchy   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    touchy    snappish    choleric    acrimonious    fretful    splenetic    cranky    hot-tempered    ill-tempered    brusque