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| Main Entry: |
petulance
 [pech-uh-luhns] 
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | peevishness |
| Synonyms: | bitterness, cynicism, ill-humor, irritability |
| Main Entry: | temper |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | angriness; bad mood |
| Synonyms: | acerbity, anger, annoyance, bad humor, cantankerousness, crossness, dander, excitability, fit, fretfulness, furor, fury, grouchiness, heat*, hotheadedness, huffiness, ill-humor, impatience, irascibility, ire, irritability, irritation, miff, outburst, passion, peevishness, petulance, pugnacity, rage, resentment, sensitivity, short fuse, slow burn, snit, sourness, stew, sullenness, surliness, tantrum, tartness, tear*, tiff, tizzy, touchiness, wax |
| Antonyms: | happiness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | testiness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | irritability |
| Synonyms: | annoyance, asperity, fretfulness, peevishness, petulance, touchiness |
Example Sentences
- It would be dead wrong to let these extracts suggest that her work is marked by anger or petulance.
- His petulance made the band's lovely songs more intriguing.
- Their behavior reinforces the stereotype of the church as a stodgy organization steeped in willful ignorance and petulance.
| Main Entry: | peevishness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | uncontrolled anger |
| Synonyms: | bile, ill temper, petulance, spleen |
| Antonyms: | affableness |
| Main Entry: | irascibility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | temper |
| Synonyms: | acerbity, anger, annoyance, bad humor, cantankerousness, crossness, dander, excitability, fit, fretfulness, furor, fury, grouchiness, heat*, hotheadedness, huffiness, ill-humor, impatience, irascibleness, ire, irritability, irritation, low boiling point, miff, outburst, passion, peevishness, petulance, pugnacity, rage, resentment, sensitivity, short fuse, slow burn, snit, sourness, spleen, stew, sullenness, surliness, tantrum, tartness, tear*, temperament, tetchiness, tiff, tizzy, touchiness, wax |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | irascibleness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | temper |
| Synonyms: | acerbity, anger, annoyance, bad humor, cantankerousness, crossness, dander, excitability, fit, fretfulness, furor, fury, grouchiness, heat*, hotheadedness, huffiness, ill-humor, impatience, irascibility, ire, irritability, irritation, low boiling point, miff, outburst, passion, peevishness, petulance, pugnacity, rage, resentment, sensitivity, short fuse, slow burn, snit, sourness, spleen, stew, sullenness, surliness, tantrum, tartness, tear*, temperament, tetchiness, tiff, tizzy, touchiness, wax |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | irateness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | anger |
| Synonyms: | acrimony, animosity, annoyance, antagonism, blow up, cat fit, chagrin, choler, conniption, dander, disapprobation, displeasure, distemper, enmity, exasperation, fury, gall, hatred, hissy fit, huff, ill humor, ill temper, impatience, indignation, infuriation, irascibility, ire, irritability, irritation, mad, miff, outrage, passion, peevishness, petulance, pique, rage, rankling, resentment, slow burn, soreness, stew, storm, tantrum, temper, tiff, umbrage, vexation, violence |
| Main Entry: | short fuse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | temper |
| Synonyms: | acerbity, anger, annoyance, bad humor, cantankerousness, crossness, dander, excitability, fit, fretfulness, furor, fury, grouchiness, heat*, hotheadedness, huffiness, ill-humor, impatience, irascibility, irascibleness, ire, irritability, irritation, low boiling point, miff, outburst, passion, peevishness, petulance, pugnacity, rage, resentment, sensitivity, slow burn, snit, sourness, spleen, stew, sullenness, surliness, tantrum, tartness, tear*, temperament, tetchiness, tiff, tizzy, touchiness, wax |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | tetchiness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | temper |
| Synonyms: | acerbity, anger, annoyance, bad humor, cantankerousness, crossness, dander, excitability, fit, fretfulness, furor, fury, grouchiness, heat*, hotheadedness, huffiness, ill-humor, impatience, irascibility, irascibleness, ire, irritability, irritation, low boiling point, miff, outburst, passion, peevishness, petulance, pugnacity, rage, resentment, sensitivity, short fuse, slow burn, snit, sourness, spleen, stew, sullenness, surliness, tantrum, tartness, tear*, temperament, tiff, tizzy, touchiness, wax |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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