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pettish
[pet-ish] 
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cross
[kraws, kros]
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| 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: | fractious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | grouchy, cross |
| Synonyms: | awkward, captious, crabby, disorderly, fretful, froward, huffy, indocile, indomitable, intractable, irritable, mean, ornery*, peevish, perverse, pettish, petulant, querulous, recalcitrant, refractory, restive, scrappy, snappish, testy, thin-skinned, touchy, uncompliant, undisciplined, unmanageable, unruly, wayward, wild |
| Notes: | factious means addicted to forming parties and raise dissensions in opposition to government or the common good, while fractious means tending to cause trouble or unruly or irritable |
| Antonyms: | agreeable, complaisant, happy, nice, patient |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | grumpy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | in a bad mood |
| Synonyms: | bad-tempered, cantankerous*, crabby, cross, crotchety, disgruntled, dissatisfied, griping, grouchy, grumbling, irritable, peevish, pettish, petulant, querulous, sulky, sullen, surly, testy, truculent |
| Antonyms: | happy, nice, pleasant |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | huffy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | angry, in a bad mood |
| Synonyms: | angered, annoyed, crabbed, crabby, cross, crotchety, crusty, curt, disgruntled, exasperated, fractious, grumpy, huffish, hurt, insulted, irked, irritable, miffed, moody, moping, nettled, offended, peeved, peevish, pettish, petulant, piqued, provoked, put out, querulous, resentful, riled, short, snappish, snappy, stewed, sulky, sullen, surly, testy, touchy, vexed, waspish |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, delighted, happy, joyful |
| Main Entry: | quarrelsome |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | being disagreeable |
| Synonyms: | argumentative, bad-tempered, bellicose, belligerent, brawling, cantankerous, cat-and-dog, choleric, churlish, combative, contentious, crabby, cross, disputatious, dissentious, excitable, fiery, fractious, gladiatorial, hasty, have chip on shoulder, hotheaded, huffy, impassioned, irascible, irritable, litigious, ornery, passionate, peevish, pettish, petulant, pugnacious, querulous, ructious, snappy, tempestuous, thin-skinned, touchy, truculent, turbulent, unruly, violent, war |
| Antonyms: | agreeable, forgiving, friendly, good-natured, happy, patient |
| Main Entry: | touchy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | easily offended |
| Synonyms: | bad-tempered, bundle of nerves, cantankerous, captious, choleric, crabbed, cranky, cross, delicate, dicey, grouchy, grumpy, hazardous, hypersensitive, irascible, irritable, jumpy, mean, ornery*, oversensitive, peevish, perturbable, pettish, petulant, precarious, querulous, quick-tempered, risky, sensitive, splenetic, surly, temperamental, testy, thin-skinned, ticklish, tricky, unpredictable, unsafe, uptight*, volatile, wired up, wound up |
| Antonyms: | calm, easygoing, laid-back, unflappable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2012 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2012 by the Philip Lief Group.
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| Main Entry: | quarrelsome |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
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quarrelsome, angry, bad-tempered, cacochymical, cantankerous, captious, choleric, churlish, contentious, cross, cross as a cat, cross as a crab, cross as a dog, cross as the tongs, cross as two sticks, disputatious, dissentious, edgy, exceptious, excitable, fidgety, fiery, fractious, fratchy, fretful, hasty, hot, huffy, ill-tempered, in a bad temper, irascible, irritable, like tinder, like touchwood, moodish, nattlesome, on the fret, overhasty, oxythymous, passionate, peevish, peppery, pettish, petulant, pugnacious, querulous, quick, resentful, resentive, restiff, restive, shrewish, snappish, sudden and quick in quarrel, sulky, susceptible, techy, termagant, testy, tetchy, thin-skinned, touchy, vindictive, virulent, warm, waspish
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