618 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ pˈiːvɪʃ], [ pˈiːvɪʃ], [ p_ˈiː_v_ɪ_ʃ]

Similar words for peevish:

• acrimonious (adjective)
• cantankerous (adjective)
• captious (adjective)
• complaining (adjective)
• crabby (adjective)
• crabby/crabbed (adjective)
• cross (adjective)
• crotchety (adjective)
• crusty (adjective)
• disagreeable (adjective)
• disgruntled (adjective)
• excitable (adjective)
• fractious (adjective)
• fretful (adjective)
• froward (adjective)
• grouchy (adjective)
• huffy (adjective)
• ill-tempered (adjective)
• irascible (adjective)
• irritable (adjective)
• irritable, testy (adjective)
• other relevant words (adjective)
• petulant (adjective)
• quarrelsome (adjective)
• sour (adjective)
• sullen (adjective)
• touchy (adjective)
• uneasy (adjective)
• cranky (noun)
• ill-natured (noun)
• nettlesome (noun)
• other relevant words (verb)
• other synonyms
• other relevant words (noun)

Synonyms for Peevish:

• adj.

  • acrimonious (adjective)
  • splenetic,
  • mordant,
  • most splenetic,
  • more splenetic.
  • cantankerous (adjective)
  • ill humored,
  • badtempered,
  • more vinegary,
  • most bearish,
  • illnatured,
  • illhumored,
  • most ill-humored,
  • more bearish,
  • more illhumored,
  • more vinegarish,
  • most illhumored,
  • ill-humored,
  • most vinegary,
  • more ill-humored,
  • more ill humored,
  • most vinegarish,
  • most ill humored,
  • ill natured.
  • captious (adjective)
  • hyper critical,
  • ex-acting,
  • more nit picking,
  • most exceptive,
  • more exceptive,
  • nit picking,
  • overcritical,
  • most deprecating,
  • most caviling,
  • hyper-critical,
  • ex acting,
  • most nit picking,
  • most nit-picking,
  • more cavillous,
  • more deprecating,
  • fault finding,
  • most cavillous,
  • over-critical,
  • more caviling,
  • more nit-picking.
  • complaining (adjective)
  • dis-approving,
  • be-wailing,
  • more moaning,
  • pro-testing,
  • most dissenting,
  • most bewailing,
  • most accusing,
  • most disapproving,
  • most murmuring,
  • most protesting,
  • more regretting,
  • more mourning,
  • most deploring,
  • more disapproving,
  • most mourning,
  • more dissenting,
  • most moaning,
  • more repining,
  • most charging,
  • most regretting,
  • more bewailing,
  • more protesting,
  • more accusing,
  • re pining,
  • pro testing,
  • most repining,
  • more murmuring,
  • be wailing,
  • re-pining,
  • more charging,
  • dis approving,
  • more deploring.
  • crabby (adjective)
  • chuffiest,
  • chuffier,
  • most mumpish,
  • more mumpish.
  • crabby/crabbed (adjective)
  • mis-anthropic,
  • most crabbed,
  • gloomy,
  • more nasty tempered,
  • un sociable,
  • most nasty-tempered,
  • nasty tempered,
  • un-sociable,
  • more nasty-tempered,
  • nastytempered,
  • illtempered,
  • most nastytempered,
  • more difficult,
  • mis anthropic,
  • most nasty tempered,
  • more nastytempered,
  • ill tempered.
  • cross (adjective)
  • more pettish,
  • faultfinding,
  • quick tempered,
  • most vexed,
  • more vexed,
  • quicktempered,
  • out humor,
  • most pettish.
  • crotchety (adjective)
  • curmudgeonly,
  • cross-grained,
  • waspy,
  • Crossgrained.
  • crusty (adjective)
  • most snarling,
  • more snarling,
  • shorttempered,
  • short tempered.
  • disagreeable (adjective)
  • whiniest,
  • whiny,
  • unlikable,
  • whinier.
  • disgruntled (adjective)
  • dis-content,
  • more crabbing,
  • dis-appointed,
  • most griping,
  • dis-satisfied,
  • dis satisfied,
  • dis pleased,
  • most discontented,
  • most malcontented,
  • dis-pleased,
  • most crabbing,
  • most uncontent,
  • bad tempered,
  • more malcontented,
  • dis appointed,
  • more uncontent,
  • more kvetching,
  • more griping,
  • more bellyaching,
  • more kicking,
  • most bellyaching,
  • dis content,
  • most kvetching,
  • un content,
  • most grousing,
  • most ungratified,
  • most kicking,
  • uncontent,
  • more ungratified,
  • more grousing,
  • un gratified,
  • dis-contented,
  • un-content,
  • dis contented,
  • un-gratified.
  • excitable (adjective)
  • mercurial,
  • reckless,
  • galvanic,
  • short fused,
  • hysterical,
  • Hot-headed,
  • fidgety,
  • Agitable,
  • Alarmable,
  • excitable,
  • hottempered,
  • over-zealous,
  • volcanic,
  • overzealous.
  • fractious (adjective)
  • fractious.
  • fretful (adjective)
  • worried,
  • wreckest.
  • froward (adjective)
  • head-strong,
  • more insubmissive,
  • un-yielding,
  • in submissive,
  • insubmissive,
  • dis-obedient,
  • un yielding,
  • un favorable,
  • un-favorable,
  • most insubmissive,
  • dis obedient,
  • in-submissive.
  • grouchy (adjective)
  • grumbling.
  • huffy (adjective)
  • ex-asperated,
  • ex asperated,
  • most exasperated,
  • most huffish,
  • miffed,
  • more huffish,
  • most moping,
  • more irked,
  • more piqued,
  • more riled,
  • most nettled,
  • huffy,
  • most riled,
  • more nettled,
  • more moping,
  • most piqued,
  • most irked,
  • more exasperated.
  • ill-tempered (adjective)
  • crabbed.
  • irascible (adjective)
  • ogrer,
  • ogrest.
  • irritable (adjective)
  • bitter,
  • oversensitive,
  • acerbic,
  • choleric,
  • Fretting,
  • snappish,
  • surly,
  • bitchy,
  • churlish,
  • tart,
  • acid,
  • spiteful,
  • caustic,
  • bellicose,
  • petty,
  • irritable,
  • easily offended.
  • irritable, testy (adjective)
  • critical,
  • growling,
  • ogre,
  • out-of-sorts,
  • childish,
  • tetchy,
  • caviling,
  • short-tempered,
  • sulky,
  • carping,
  • Fault-finding,
  • whining,
  • ornery,
  • cussed.
  • Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • dissentious,
  • testy,
  • up set,
  • waspish,
  • cat-and-dog,
  • in turmoil,
  • bearish,
  • bundle of nerves,
  • gladiatorial,
  • palpitant,
  • shrewish,
  • vinegarish,
  • crotchety,
  • disagreeable,
  • anguished,
  • over critical,
  • Malcontented,
  • Perturbable,
  • acrimonious,
  • kvetching,
  • cantankerous,
  • quarrelsome,
  • touchy,
  • warrer,
  • grouchy,
  • wrecker,
  • prickly,
  • vinegary,
  • hypersensitive,
  • ungratified,
  • complaining,
  • crusty,
  • Cavillous,
  • Exceptive,
  • on the qui vive,
  • ructious,
  • nasty-tempered,
  • petulant,
  • disgruntled,
  • captious,
  • nit-picking,
  • Chuffy,
  • sour,
  • irascible,
  • sullen,
  • grousing,
  • Mumpish,
  • all nerves,
  • grumpy,
  • out of humor,
  • huffish,
  • pettish.
  • petulant (adjective)
  • more whining,
  • most crybaby,
  • more crybaby,
  • most whining,
  • more pouting,
  • most pouting.
  • quarrelsome (adjective)
  • more dissentious,
  • most dissentious,
  • more gladiatorial,
  • more ructious,
  • cat and dog,
  • have chip shoulder,
  • most brawling,
  • most gladiatorial,
  • most cat and dog,
  • most ructious,
  • have chip on shoulder,
  • more brawling,
  • more cat and dog,
  • warrest,
  • most cat-and-dog,
  • more cat-and-dog.
  • sour (adjective)
  • more grudging,
  • un happy,
  • un-generous,
  • dis-pleasing,
  • dis pleasing,
  • un happiest,
  • un happier,
  • un-happy,
  • most grudging,
  • un generous.
  • sullen (adjective)
  • pouty,
  • sourpussed,
  • tenebrific.
  • touchy (adjective)
  • more perturbable,
  • more hypersensitive,
  • un safest,
  • un-predictable,
  • hyper-sensitive,
  • most perturbable,
  • un-safer,
  • pre carious,
  • un safe,
  • un safer,
  • un-safest,
  • bundle nerves,
  • hyper sensitive,
  • un predictable,
  • pre-carious,
  • wired up,
  • un-safe,
  • most hypersensitive.
  • uneasy (adjective)
  • in securest,
  • more tormented,
  • un quietest,
  • un-easy,
  • in secure,
  • most disquieted,
  • un stable,
  • most dismayed,
  • un stablest,
  • more disquieted,
  • un-stable,
  • most palpitant,
  • more palpitant,
  • in-securest,
  • most tormented,
  • dis quieted,
  • un stabler,
  • un easy,
  • most discomposed,
  • more anguished,
  • un-quiet,
  • dis composed,
  • un easier,
  • harassed,
  • on qui vive,
  • un settled,
  • more discomposed,
  • un-stabler,
  • dis-composed,
  • un quiet,
  • un quieter,
  • un-easiest,
  • un-quietest,
  • dis mayed,
  • in-securer,
  • up-set,
  • most anguished,
  • in securer,
  • in-secure,
  • dis-mayed,
  • dis-quieted,
  • un-stablest,
  • un-settled,
  • most harassed,
  • un easiest,
  • more dismayed,
  • ill ease,
  • more harassed,
  • un-easier,
  • un-quieter.

• n.

  •
  • moody,
  • hot-tempered,
  • sensitive,
  • pertinacious,
  • morose,
  • temperamental,
  • perverse,
  • obstinate.
  •
  • querulous.
  •
  • angry.
  •
  • nasty,
  • snappy,
  • attitude,
  • out of sorts,
  • mean,
  • ugly.
  • cranky (noun)
  • cranky.
  • ill-natured (noun)
  • ill-natured.
  • nettlesome (noun)
  • nettlesome.

• v.

  • Other relevant words: (verb)
  • cross.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • bad-tempered,
  • uneasy.
  •
  • fretful,
  • crabby,
  • unfriendly,
  • ill-tempered.
  • Other relevant words (noun):
  • discourteous,
  • anxious,
  • bad-natured,
  • ratty,
  • crank,
  • pestiferous,
  • fussy,
  • trenchant,
  • antagonistic,
  • refractory,
  • argumentative,
  • restive,
  • irritating,
  • edgy,
  • peppery,
  • rasping,
  • croaking,
  • contumelious,
  • funereal,
  • rough,
  • ungoverned,
  • depressing,
  • mournful,
  • plaguey,
  • bluff,
  • unpleasant,
  • high-strung,
  • belligerent,
  • antisocial,
  • sarcastic,
  • fed up,
  • disobliging,
  • obstreperous,
  • abrupt,
  • dissatisfied,
  • annoyed,
  • stuffy,
  • raspy,
  • bad-mannered,
  • highly strung,
  • nervous,
  • stroppy,
  • lugubrious,
  • fiery,
  • combative,
  • muttering,
  • apprehensive,
  • dissentient,
  • bothersome,
  • venomous,
  • pestering,
  • gruff,
  • tender,
  • A,
  • gravelly,
  • browned off,
  • brusque,
  • vexing,
  • unaccommodating,
  • rebellious,
  • spotty,
  • displeased,
  • dreary,
  • Cavilling,
  • Squabbling,
  • Puling,
  • impolite,
  • criticizing,
  • Uncourtly,
  • nagging,
  • uncivil,
  • catty,
  • uneven,
  • vixenish,
  • terse,
  • pugnacious,
  • sulking,
  • explosive,
  • Whimpering,
  • Pouting,
  • vindictive,
  • tense,
  • supersensitive,
  • disappointed,
  • envious,
  • bad,
  • pesky,
  • Snarling,
  • unsociable,
  • unaccepting,
  • in a pique,
  • dyspeptic,
  • contentious,
  • grating,
  • acetous,
  • scratchy,
  • finicky,
  • techy,
  • on tenterhooks,
  • taint,
  • exasperated,
  • Vixenly,
  • dismal,
  • vexatious,
  • impatient,
  • shirty,
  • wailful,
  • Piqued,
  • snarky,
  • glum,
  • vexed,
  • unsatisfied,
  • short,
  • edge,
  • Ululant,
  • pindling,
  • uptight,
  • Crabbing,
  • discontent,
  • beefing,
  • Naggy,
  • and Irish cranky,
  • depressed,
  • harsh,
  • annoying,
  • peckish,
  • grumpish,
  • dour,
  • galling,
  • finical,
  • bilious,
  • curt,
  • teasing,
  • hotheaded,
  • cheesed off,
  • irritated,
  • embittered,
  • wrathful,
  • sorrowful,
  • on edge,
  • in high dudgeon,
  • Resentive,
  • thin-skinned,
  • murmuring,
  • quick-tempered,
  • brooding,
  • cutting,
  • disputatious,
  • warm,
  • querulant,
  • rude,
  • restless,
  • passionate,
  • Moanful,
  • peeved,
  • malcontent,
  • Griping,
  • tippy,
  • abrasive,
  • ill at ease,
  • peremptory,
  • hostile,
  • itchy,
  • sombre,
  • obnoxious,
  • hot-blooded,
  • virulent,
  • uncooperative,
  • unfulfilled,
  • acerb,
  • plaintive,
  • Snippety,
  • biting,
  • resentful,
  • contrary,
  • put out,
  • over-particular,
  • stinging,
  • sharp,
  • censorious,
  • discontented,
  • grim,
  • dissident,
  • blunt,
  • howling,
  • liverish,
  • bad-humoured,
  • recalcitrant,
  • capricious,
  • snippy,
  • hypercritical,
  • plangent,
  • plaguy,
  • bitching,
  • unhappy,
  • currish,
  • froward,
  • quick,
  • Complaintful,
  • ill-mannered,
  • volatile,
  • Doggish,
  • bellyaching,
  • acidulous,
  • ill-humoured.