What is another word for peevish?
618 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ pˈiːvɪʃ], [ pˈiːvɪʃ], [ p_ˈiː_v_ɪ_ʃ]
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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) • 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- more pettish,
- faultfinding,
- quick tempered,
- most vexed,
- more vexed,
- quicktempered,
- out humor,
- most pettish.
- 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.
- mercurial,
- reckless,
- galvanic,
- short fused,
- hysterical,
- Hot-headed,
- fidgety,
- Agitable,
- Alarmable,
- excitable,
- hottempered,
- over-zealous,
- volcanic,
- overzealous.
- head-strong,
- more insubmissive,
- un-yielding,
- in submissive,
- insubmissive,
- dis-obedient,
- un yielding,
- un favorable,
- un-favorable,
- most insubmissive,
- dis obedient,
- in-submissive.
- 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.
- bitter,
- oversensitive,
- acerbic,
- choleric,
- Fretting,
- snappish,
- surly,
- bitchy,
- churlish,
- tart,
- acid,
- spiteful,
- caustic,
- bellicose,
- petty,
- irritable,
- easily offended.
- critical,
- growling,
- ogre,
- out-of-sorts,
- childish,
- tetchy,
- caviling,
- short-tempered,
- sulky,
- carping,
- Fault-finding,
- whining,
- ornery,
- cussed.
- 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.
- 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.
- more grudging,
- un happy,
- un-generous,
- dis-pleasing,
- dis pleasing,
- un happiest,
- un happier,
- un-happy,
- most grudging,
- un generous.
- 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.
- 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.
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- querulous.
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- angry.
v.
• Other relevant words: (verb)Other synonyms:
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- bad-tempered,
- uneasy.
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- fretful,
- crabby,
- unfriendly,
- ill-tempered.
- 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.
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