querulous as an adjective: - 1
querulous
adjective
1 querulous
Habitually complaining.
synonyms: fretful, whiney, whiny.
Roget 839:
lamenting
etc.
v.;
in mourning,
in sackcloth and ashes;
sorrowing,
sorrowful
etc.
(unhappy)
828;
mournful,
tearful;
lachrymose;
plaintive,
plaintful†;
querulous,
querimonious†;
in the melting mood;
threnetic†.
in tears,
with tears in one's eyes;
with moistened eyes,
with watery eyes;
bathed in tears,
dissolved in tears;
like Niobe all tears"
[Hamlet].
elegiac,
epicedial†.
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Roget 868:
fastidious,
nice,
delicate,
delicat†,
finical,
finicky,
demanding,
meticulous,
exacting,
strict,
anal [Vulg.],
difficult,
dainty,
lickerish†,
squeamish,
thin-skinned;
squeasy†,
queasy;
hard to please,
difficult to please;
querulous,
particular,
straitlaced,
scrupulous;
censorious
etc.
932;
hypercritical;
overcritical.
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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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Moby thesaurus: Jeremianic, annoyed, bad-tempered, beefing, bellyaching, bemoaning, bitching, blubbering, cantankerous, carping, catty, censorious, choleric, complaining, complaintful, crabbing, crabby, cranky, critical, criticizing, croaking, cross, crotchety, crusty, crying, disappointed, discontented, disgruntled, displeased, dissatisfied, dyspeptic, envious, faultfinding, finical, finicky, fractious, fretful, fussy, griping, grouchy, grousing, growling, grumbling, grumpy, howling, huffy, hypercritical, ill-humored, ill-natured, ill-tempered, irascible, irritable, irritated, lamenting, lamentive, malcontent, malcontented, moanful, mournful, murmuring, muttering, nagging, naggy, out of humor, peevish, perverse, pettish, petulant, piqued, plaintive, plangent, puling, quarrelsome, querulant, rebellious, resentful, restive, restless, shrewish, snappish, sorrowful, sour, splenetic, sulky, testy, touchy, ululant, unaccepting, unaccommodating, uneasy, unfulfilled, ungratified, unhappy, unsatisfied, vixenish, vixenly, wailful, wailing, waspish, weeping, whimpering, whining, whiny ... show more.
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