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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | irritable |
| Synonyms: | acid, acrid, acrimonious, awkward, bad-tempered, blunt, brusque, captious, choleric, chuffy, churlish, crabbed, cranky, cross, crotchety, crusty, cynical, difficult, dour, fretful, gloomy, glum, grouchy, harsh, huffy, ill-humored, ill-tempered, irascible, misanthropic, morose, mumpish, nasty-tempered, peevish, perverse, petulant, prickly, saturnine, snappish, sour, splenetic, sulky, sullen, surly, tart, testy, tough, trying, unsociable |
| Antonyms: | amiable, good-humored, good-natured, happy, pleasant, sweet |
| Main Entry: | acrimonious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | nasty in behavior, speech |
| Synonyms: | acerbic, acid, angry, astringent, belligerent, biting, bitter, caustic, censorious, churlish, crabby, cranky, cross, cutting, indignant, irascible, irate, ireful, mad, mordant, peevish, petulant, rancorous, sarcastic, sharp, spiteful, splenetic, tart, testy, trenchant, wrathful |
| Antonyms: | kind, kindly, peaceable |
| Main Entry: | bitter |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hostile, nasty |
| Synonyms: | acrimonious, alienated, antagonistic, begrudging, biting, caustic, crabby, divided, embittered, estranged, fierce, freezing, hateful, intense, irreconcilable, morose, rancorous, resentful, sardonic, severe, sore, sour, stinging, sullen, virulent, vitriolic, with chip on shoulder |
| Antonyms: | agreeable, content, genial, kind, nice, pleasant, sweet |
| Main Entry: | captious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very critical |
| Synonyms: | acrimonious, cantankerous, carping, caviling, cavillous, censorious, contrary, crabby, cross, demanding, deprecating, disparaging, exacting, exceptive, fault-finding, finicky, hypercritical, irritable, nagging, nit-picking, overcritical, peevish, perverse, petulant, sarcastic, severe, testy, touchy |
| Antonyms: | commendatory, complimentary, encouraging, flattering, laudatory, praising |
| Main Entry: | cranky |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | in bad mood |
| Synonyms: | bad-humored, bearish, cantankerous, choleric, crabby, cross, crotchety, cussed, disagreeable, got up on wrong side of bed, grouchy, grumpy, hot-tempered, ill-humored, irascible, irritable, like a bear, mean, ornery*, out of sorts, perverse, quick-tempered, ratty, snappish, tetchy, ugly, vinegary |
| Antonyms: | amiable, cheerful, happy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | cross |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very angry; in a bad mood |
| Synonyms: | annoyed, cantankerous, captious, caviling, choleric, churlish, crabby, cranky, crotchety, crusty, disagreeable, faultfinding, fractious, fretful, grouchy, grumpy, ill-humored, ill-tempered, impatient, irascible, irritable, jumpy, out of humor, peeved, peevish, pettish, petulant, put out, querulous, quick-tempered, ratty, short, snappy, splenetic, sullen, surly, testy, tetchy, touchy, vexed, waspish |
| Antonyms: | animated, cheerful, happy, pleasant |
| Main Entry: | crotchety |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | irritable, often due to old age |
| Synonyms: | awkward, bad-tempered, bearish, cantankerous, contrary, crabby, cranky, cross, cross-grained, crusty, curmudgeonly, difficult, disagreeable, eccentric, fractious, grouchy, grumpy, irritable, obstinate, obstreperous, odd, ornery*, peevish, queer, surly, testy, unusual, vinegary, waspish, waspy |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, happy, pleasant |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | crusty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | irritable, often due to old age |
| Synonyms: | abrupt, bluff, blunt, brief, brusque, cantankerous, captious, choleric, crabbed, crabby, cranky, cross, curt, dour, gruff, harsh, ill-humored, irascible, peevish, prickly, sarcastic, saturnine, scornful, short, short-tempered, snappish, snarling, snippety, snippy, splenetic, surly, testy, touchy, vinegary |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, happy, nice, pleasant |
| Main Entry: | discontented/discontent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unhappy, dissatisfied |
| Synonyms: | blue, complaining, crabby, disaffected, disgruntled, displeased, disquieted, disturbed, exasperated, fed up, fretful, griping, kvetching, malcontent, malcontented, miserable, perturbed, picky, restless, ungratified, upset, vexed |
| Antonyms: | content, contented, happy, patient, pleased, satisfied, uncomplaining |
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