petulant as an adjective: - 1
petulant
adjective
1 petulant
Easily irritated or annoyed.
synonyms: cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peckish, peevish, pettish, scratchy, techy, testy, tetchy ... show more.
Roget 574:
vigorous,
nervous,
powerful,
forcible,
trenchant,
incisive,
impressive;
sensational.
spirited,
lively,
glowing,
sparkling,
racy,
bold,
slashing;
pungent,
piquant,
full of point,
pointed,
pithy,
antithetical;
sententious.
lofty,
elevated,
sublime;
eloquent;
vehement,
petulant,
impassioned;
poetic.
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Roget 901:
irascible;
bad-tempered,
ill-tempered;
irritable,
susceptible;
excitable
etc.
825;
thin-skinned
etc.
(sensitive)
822;
fretful,
fidgety;
on the fret.
hasty,
overhasty,
quick,
warm,
hot,
testy,
touchy,
techy†,
tetchy;
like touchwood,
like tinder;
huffy,
pettish,
petulant;
waspish,
snappish,
peppery,
fiery,
passionate,
choleric,
shrewish,
sudden and quick in quarrel"
[As You Like It].
querulous,
captious,
moodish†;
quarrelsome,
contentious,
disputatious;
pugnacious
etc.
(bellicose)
720;
cantankerous,
exceptious†;
restiff
etc.
(perverse)
901.1†;
churlish
etc.
(discourteous)
895.
cross,
cross as crabs,
cross as two sticks,
cross as a cat,
cross as a dog,
cross as the tongs;
fractious,
peevish,
acari=atre†.
in a bad temper;
sulky
etc.
901.1;
angry
etc.
900.
resentful,
resentive†;
vindictive
etc.
919.
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Polish: drażliwy, przeczulony, przewrażliwiony
Moby thesaurus: Jeremianic, arbitrary, bad-tempered, beefing, bellyaching, bilious, bitching, cantankerous, capricious, captious, catty, choleric, complaining, complaintful, crabbed, crabbing, crabby, cranky, croaking, cross, crotchety, disappointed, discontented, disgruntled, displeased, dissatisfied, envious, fanciful, fantasied, fantastic, faultfinding, flaky, fractious, freakish, fretful, griping, grouchy, grousing, growling, grumbling, grumpy, harebrained, howling, huffish, huffy, humorsome, ill-humored, ill-tempered, impatient, irascible, irritable, kinky, lamentive, maggoty, malcontent, malcontented, moanful, moody, motiveless, mournful, murmuring, muttering, nagging, naggy, notional, out of humor, peevish, perverse, pettish, plaintive, plangent, puling, querulant, querulous, quirky, rebellious, resentful, restive, restless, shrewish, snappish, sorrowful, sour, splenetic, sulky, temperamental, testy, ululant, unaccepting, unaccommodating, uneasy, unfulfilled, ungratified, unhappy, unreasonable, unrestrained, unsatisfied, vagarious, vagrant, vixenish, vixenly, wailful, wanton, waspish, wayward, whimpering, whimsical, whining, whiny ... show more.
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