What is another word for grumpy?
487 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ ɡɹˈʌmpi], [ ɡɹˈʌmpi], [ ɡ_ɹ_ˈʌ_m_p_i]
Grumpy is an adjective used to describe someone who is irritable, unhappy, and discontented. There are several synonyms for this word, including crabby, grouchy, cantankerous, cranky, peevish, surly, testy, irascible, and cantankerous. If someone is crabby, they're in a bad mood and are easily irritated. Grouchy people are similarly irritable, but they show their bad mood by complaining or snapping at others. Cantankerous people are difficult to get along with and are often very critical. Cranky people are easily upset or annoyed, and peevish people are irritable or ill-tempered. Surly people are bad-tempered and unapproachable, while testy people are easily irritated or annoyed. Irascible people are short-tempered and easily provoked.
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Similar words for grumpy:
- crotchety (adjective)
- ornery (adjective)
- sullen (adjective)
- cantankerous (adjective)
- churlish (adjective)
- crabbed (adjective)
- cranky (adjective)
- cross (adjective)
- disgruntled (adjective)
- dissatisfied (adjective)
- grim (adjective)
- gruff (adjective)
- huffy (adjective)
- peevish (adjective)
- plaintive (adjective)
- short-tempered (adjective)
- sulky (adjective)
- testy (adjective)
- touchy (adjective)
Synonyms for Grumpy:
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adj.
• crotchety • ornery • sullen- Moping ,
- beetle-browed ,
- broody ,
- contrary ,
- crabby ,
- cynical ,
- dark ,
- dejected ,
- dissociable ,
- dour ,
- fretful ,
- frowning ,
- gloomy ,
- glowering ,
- glum ,
- hostile ,
- irascible ,
- long-faced ,
- malevolent ,
- mean ,
- melancholy ,
- moody ,
- morose ,
- noncooperative ,
- obstinate ,
- petulant ,
- scowling ,
- sour ,
- sulky ,
- surly ,
- uncooperative ,
- unfriendly ,
- ungenial ,
- unsociable .
- badtempered ,
- dis agreeable ,
- dis-agreeable ,
- ill humored ,
- ill natured ,
- illhumored ,
- illnatured ,
- more bearish ,
- more ill humored ,
- more ill-humored ,
- more illhumored ,
- more vinegarish ,
- more vinegary ,
- most bearish ,
- most ill humored ,
- most ill-humored ,
- most illhumored ,
- most vinegarish ,
- most vinegary .
- dis courteous ,
- dis-courteous ,
- more cloddish ,
- more clodhopping ,
- more cussed ,
- more lowbred ,
- more unneighborly ,
- most cloddish ,
- most clodhopping ,
- most cussed ,
- most lowbred ,
- most unneighborly ,
- oafish ,
- un civil ,
- un civilized ,
- un cultured ,
- un mannerly ,
- un neighborly ,
- un polished ,
- un sociable ,
- un-civil ,
- un-civilized ,
- un-cultured ,
- un-mannerly ,
- un-neighborly ,
- un-polished ,
- un-sociable .
- bad humored ,
- badhumored ,
- got on wrong side bed ,
- got on wrong side of bed ,
- got up on wrong side bed ,
- got up wrong side bed ,
- got up wrong side of bed ,
- got upon wrong side bed ,
- got upon wrong side of bed ,
- got wrong side bed ,
- got wrong side of bed ,
- hot tempered ,
- ill-humored ,
- like bear ,
- more bad humored ,
- more bad-humored ,
- more badhumored ,
- most bad humored ,
- most bad-humored ,
- most badhumored ,
- out sorts ,
- quick tempered ,
- quicktempered .
- faultfinding ,
- more caviling ,
- more pettish ,
- more splenetic ,
- more vexed ,
- most caviling ,
- most pettish ,
- most splenetic ,
- most vexed ,
- out humor .
- bad tempered ,
- dis appointed ,
- dis content ,
- dis contented ,
- dis pleased ,
- dis-appointed ,
- dis-content ,
- dis-contented ,
- dis-pleased ,
- more bellyaching ,
- more crabbing ,
- more griping ,
- more grousing ,
- more kicking ,
- more kvetching ,
- more malcontented ,
- more uncontent ,
- more ungratified ,
- most bellyaching ,
- most crabbing ,
- most discontented ,
- most griping ,
- most grousing ,
- most kicking ,
- most kvetching ,
- most malcontented ,
- most uncontent ,
- most ungratified ,
- un content ,
- un gratified ,
- un-content ,
- un-gratified ,
- uncontent .
- be grudging ,
- be-grudging ,
- dis affected ,
- dis satisfied ,
- dis-affected ,
- dis-satisfied ,
- fedup ,
- in satiable ,
- in-satiable ,
- more begrudging ,
- more ennuied ,
- more fed up ,
- more fed-up ,
- more fedup ,
- more fretting ,
- more grudging ,
- more put-out ,
- more putout ,
- more unappeased ,
- more unassuaged ,
- more unfulfilled ,
- more unsated ,
- most fed up ,
- most fed-up ,
- most fedup ,
- most fretting ,
- most grudging ,
- most irked ,
- most put out ,
- most put-out ,
- most putout ,
- most sniveling ,
- most unappeased ,
- most unassuaged ,
- most unsated ,
- un appeased ,
- un assuaged ,
- un fulfilled ,
- un sated ,
- un satisfied ,
- un-appeased ,
- un-assuaged ,
- un-fulfilled ,
- un-sated ,
- un-satisfied .
- fore boding ,
- fore-boding ,
- in tractable ,
- in-exorable ,
- in-tractable ,
- more foreboding ,
- more glowering ,
- more scowling ,
- most foreboding ,
- most glowering ,
- most scowling ,
- re solute ,
- re-solute ,
- un relenting ,
- un yielding ,
- un-yielding .
- ex asperated ,
- ex-asperated ,
- miffed ,
- more exasperated ,
- more huffish ,
- more irked ,
- more moping ,
- more nettled ,
- more piqued ,
- more riled ,
- most exasperated ,
- most huffish ,
- most moping ,
- most nettled ,
- most piqued ,
- most riled .
- Fretting ,
- fault finding ,
- more growling ,
- more out of sorts ,
- more out-of-sorts ,
- more whining ,
- most growling ,
- most out of sorts ,
- most out-of-sorts ,
- most whining ,
- ogrer ,
- ogrest .
- grief stricken ,
- more beefing ,
- more saddening ,
- more wailing ,
- most beefing ,
- most saddening ,
- most wailing .
- de pressed ,
- de-pressed ,
- more brooding ,
- more sourpussed ,
- more sulking ,
- most brooding ,
- most sourpussed ,
- most sulking ,
- poutier ,
- poutiest ,
- with drawn ,
- with-drawn .
- bundle nerves ,
- hyper sensitive ,
- hyper-sensitive ,
- more hypersensitive ,
- more oversensitive ,
- more perturbable ,
- most hypersensitive ,
- most oversensitive ,
- most perturbable ,
- over sensitive ,
- over-sensitive ,
- oversensitive ,
- pre carious ,
- pre-carious ,
- un predictable ,
- un safe ,
- un safer ,
- un safest ,
- un-predictable ,
- un-safe ,
- un-safer ,
- un-safest ,
- wired up .
Other synonyms:
- testy .
- disagreeable ,
- peevish .
- snappy .
- ugly .
- nasty .
Other relevant words:
- Cavilling ,
- Fault-finding ,
- Griping ,
- Grouty ,
- Grum ,
- Grumbly ,
- Piqued ,
- Pouting ,
- Snippety ,
- abrupt ,
- acerb ,
- acid ,
- acrimonious ,
- and Irish cranky ,
- annoyed ,
- antisocial ,
- argumentative ,
- attitude ,
- bad tempered person ,
- bad-humoured ,
- bad-natured ,
- bad-tempered ,
- bearish ,
- bilious ,
- bitching ,
- biting ,
- bluff ,
- blunt ,
- brooding ,
- browned off ,
- brusque ,
- busy ,
- capricious ,
- captious ,
- carping ,
- caustic ,
- censorious ,
- cheesed off ,
- choleric ,
- churlish ,
- complaining ,
- contentious ,
- crabbed ,
- critical ,
- criticizing ,
- cross-grained ,
- crotchety ,
- crusty ,
- curmudgeonly ,
- curt ,
- cutting ,
- depressed ,
- depressing ,
- difficult ,
- disappointed ,
- discontent ,
- discontented ,
- disgruntled ,
- dismal ,
- displeased ,
- dissatisfied ,
- dreary ,
- dyspeptic ,
- edgy ,
- exasperated ,
- excitable ,
- explosive ,
- fed up ,
- fiery ,
- finical ,
- finicky ,
- fractious ,
- frumpish ,
- funereal ,
- fussy ,
- grousing ,
- growling ,
- gruff ,
- grumbling ,
- grumpish ,
- hot-blooded ,
- hot-tempered ,
- hotheaded ,
- huffish ,
- huffy ,
- hypercritical ,
- hypersensitive ,
- ill-humoured ,
- ill-natured ,
- ill-tempered ,
- impatient ,
- in a pique ,
- irritable ,
- irritated ,
- liverish ,
- lugubrious ,
- malcontent ,
- murmuring ,
- obnoxious ,
- obstreperous ,
- on edge ,
- ornery ,
- over-particular ,
- particular ,
- peeved ,
- perverse ,
- pettish ,
- picky ,
- plaintive ,
- prickly ,
- put out ,
- quarrelsome ,
- quick-tempered ,
- raspy ,
- ratty ,
- rough ,
- rude ,
- sensitive ,
- shirty ,
- short ,
- short-tempered ,
- shrewish ,
- snarky ,
- snippy ,
- sombre ,
- spiteful ,
- splenetic ,
- stern ,
- stinging ,
- stuffy ,
- sulking ,
- temperamental ,
- tetchy ,
- thwartwise ,
- touchy ,
- transversal ,
- transverse ,
- truculent ,
- uncivil ,
- unpleasant ,
- vexed ,
- volatile ,
- whining .
- Clodhopping ,
- Malcontented ,
- Perturbable ,
- Unassuaged ,
- bad-humored ,
- beefing ,
- bundle of nerves ,
- cantankerous ,
- cloddish ,
- cross ,
- ennuied ,
- fed-up ,
- got up on wrong side of bed ,
- griefstricken ,
- grim ,
- grouchy ,
- hottempered ,
- kvetching ,
- like a bear ,
- lowbred ,
- out of humor ,
- out-of-sorts ,
- pouty ,
- sourpussed ,
- sullen ,
- unappeased ,
- ungratified ,
- unneighborly ,
- unsated ,
- vinegarish ,
- vinegary .
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How to use "Grumpy" in context?
If you've ever been feeling grumpy, chances are you're not alone. Research has shown that people who are grumpy on a regular basis are more likely to be unhappy, have lower self-esteem, and be more stressed out than those who aren't grumpy. Researchers aren't sure why grumpiness is linked with these negative outcomes, but some possible explanations include feeling like you're all alone in your unhappiness, that you're not attractive or lovable, and that other people are getting more than you.
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