petulant

Adjective Satellite

• easily irritated or annoyed

Adj

• Childishly irritable.
• Forward; pert; insolent; wanton.

Adjective

• Childishly sulky, bad-tempered, or irritable.

Examples

• After a bad draw, his PETULANT sigh was heard across the game room.
• Lack of sleep is causing Dave's recent petulant behavior.

Synonyms

cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peckish, peevish, pettish, scratchy, techy, testy, tetchy, atrabilious, audacious, bad-tempered, bilious, bitchy, bold, bold as brass, bold-faced, brainish, brassy, brazen, brazen-faced, cantankerous, carnaptious, cheeky, chutzpadik, cocket, crabbit, crabby, crotchety, cute, dicacious, dyspeptic, edgy, facey, familiar, fantoddish, fiery, flip, flippant, forward, fresh, fretful, grotchy, grouchy, grumpy, hissy, hot-livered, hot-tempered, hotheaded, huffy, humpy, ill-natured, ill-tempered, impertinent, impudent, insolent, irascible, irreverent, malapert, ornery (chiefly US)}, out of sorts, pert, petulant, prickly, querulous, quick-tempered, raspy, ratty, sassy, saucy, short-tempered, snappish, snappy, snippety, snippish, snippy, snitchy, splenetic, stressy, surly, tetty, thin-skinned, thorny, touchy, twitchy, umbrageous, waspish

Antonyms

easygoing

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