214 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ pˈɛtɪʃ], [ pˈɛtɪʃ], [ p_ˈɛ_t_ɪ_ʃ]

Related words: pettish, anger, petulance, ill humour, spleen

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Similar words for pettish:

• cross (adjective)
• disagreeable (adjective)
• fractious (adjective)
• grumpy (adjective)
• huffy (adjective)
• other relevant words (adjective)
• quarrelsome (adjective)
• touchy (adjective)
• other relevant words (noun)
• other synonyms
• other relevant words (noun)

Synonyms for Pettish:

• adj.

  • cross (adjective)
  • cantankerous,
  • irascible,
  • grouchy,
  • short,
  • vexed,
  • sullen,
  • querulous,
  • ill-tempered,
  • fretful,
  • crabby,
  • caviling,
  • surly,
  • snappy,
  • churlish,
  • annoyed,
  • captious,
  • waspish,
  • ratty,
  • choleric,
  • crusty,
  • jumpy,
  • crotchety,
  • quick-tempered,
  • peeved,
  • put out,
  • impatient.
  • disagreeable (adjective)
  • Eristic,
  • ugly,
  • brusque,
  • uptight,
  • whinier,
  • ungracious,
  • unfriendly,
  • rude,
  • out of sorts,
  • difficult,
  • contrary,
  • unpleasant,
  • disobliging,
  • offensive,
  • whiniest,
  • bellicose,
  • unlikable,
  • contentious,
  • ill-natured,
  • nasty,
  • disputatious,
  • whiny,
  • obnoxious.
  • fractious (adjective)
  • perverse,
  • disorderly,
  • unmanageable,
  • undisciplined,
  • indocile,
  • mean,
  • snappish,
  • awkward,
  • uncompliant,
  • ornery,
  • froward,
  • wild,
  • scrappy,
  • indomitable,
  • recalcitrant,
  • thin-skinned,
  • restive,
  • refractory,
  • wayward,
  • intractable,
  • unruly.
  • grumpy (adjective)
  • Griping,
  • truculent,
  • dissatisfied,
  • disgruntled,
  • sulky.
  • huffy (adjective)
  • nettled,
  • exasperated,
  • stewed,
  • angered,
  • Moping,
  • riled,
  • curt,
  • crabbed,
  • irked,
  • hurt,
  • Piqued,
  • resentful,
  • insulted,
  • provoked,
  • offended.
  • Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • cross,
  • dissentious,
  • oversensitive,
  • ill-humored,
  • cat-and-dog,
  • huffy,
  • faultfinding,
  • warrer,
  • have chip on shoulder,
  • splenetic,
  • hypersensitive,
  • bundle of nerves,
  • irritable,
  • out of humor,
  • huffish,
  • miffed,
  • quarrelsome,
  • Perturbable,
  • grumbling,
  • gladiatorial,
  • wired up,
  • ructious,
  • touchy,
  • grumpy,
  • disagreeable.
  • quarrelsome (adjective)
  • pugnacious,
  • litigious,
  • war,
  • belligerent,
  • turbulent,
  • combative,
  • violent,
  • hotheaded,
  • tempestuous,
  • impassioned,
  • brawling.
  • touchy (adjective)
  • tricky,
  • ticklish,
  • wound up,
  • delicate,
  • unsafe,
  • hazardous,
  • volatile,
  • precarious,
  • unpredictable,
  • risky,
  • dicey.

• n.

  •
  • temperamental,
  • sensitive,
  • hot-tempered,
  • bad-tempered,
  • moody.
  • Other relevant words: (noun)
  • fractious,
  • peckish,
  • scratchy,
  • techy,
  • petulant,
  • tetchy,
  • cranky,
  • nettlesome,
  • testy,
  • peevish.

• Other synonyms:

  • Other relevant words (noun):
  • overhasty,
  • shirty,
  • umbrageous,
  • stuffy,
  • argumentative,
  • prickly,
  • highly strung,
  • catty,
  • vexing,
  • inflammable,
  • hasty,
  • grumpish,
  • excitable,
  • pestering,
  • tense,
  • bilious,
  • bearish,
  • Cavilling,
  • curmudgeonly,
  • supersensitive,
  • pestiferous,
  • ill-humoured,
  • hot,
  • Fault-finding,
  • liverish,
  • capricious,
  • teasing,
  • grating,
  • plaguy,
  • annoying,
  • fiery,
  • spotty,
  • rasping,
  • snippy,
  • irritating,
  • vexatious,
  • short-tempered,
  • warm,
  • tender,
  • sour,
  • acrimonious,
  • shrewish,
  • dyspeptic,
  • raspy,
  • pesky,
  • rough,
  • high-strung,
  • teeny,
  • snarky,
  • bothersome,
  • quick,
  • nagging,
  • crank,
  • galling,
  • irritated,
  • Snarling,
  • Snippety,
  • passionate,
  • pindling,
  • and Irish cranky,
  • carping,
  • peppery.