Synonyms for Petulant:

• adj.

  •acrimonious (adjective)
  • most splenetic,
  • more splenetic,
  • splenetic,
  • mordant.
  •bad-tempered (adjective)
  • ill-natured.
  •cantankerous (adjective)
  • ill-humored,
  • illhumored,
  • more illhumored,
  • badtempered,
  • ill humored,
  • more vinegary,
  • most ill-humored,
  • more vinegarish,
  • most vinegary,
  • morose,
  • more bearish,
  • most illhumored,
  • most vinegarish,
  • most ill humored,
  • more ill-humored,
  • most bearish,
  • obstinate,
  • more ill humored.
  •captious (adjective)
  • fault finding,
  • more nit-picking,
  • over-critical,
  • more nit picking,
  • most deprecating,
  • hyper-critical,
  • most nit picking,
  • more exceptive,
  • more deprecating,
  • most caviling,
  • most cavillous,
  • more caviling,
  • most nit-picking,
  • ex acting,
  • more cavillous,
  • hyper critical,
  • most exceptive,
  • nit picking,
  • ex-acting,
  • overcritical.
  •crabby (adjective)
  • most mumpish,
  • more mumpish,
  • chuffiest,
  • chuffier.
  •crabby, moody (adjective)
  • crybaby,
  • ungracious,
  • Fault-finding,
  • whiny,
  • mean,
  • whining,
  • sulky,
  • caviling,
  • uptight,
  • fretful,
  • complaining,
  • Pouting,
  • grumbling.
  •crabby/crabbed (adjective)
  • mis anthropic,
  • more difficult,
  • nasty tempered,
  • ill tempered,
  • gloomy,
  • nastytempered,
  • most nasty tempered,
  • mis-anthropic,
  • more nasty tempered,
  • more nastytempered,
  • most crabbed,
  • more nasty-tempered,
  • most nasty-tempered,
  • un sociable,
  • illtempered,
  • un-sociable,
  • most nastytempered.
  •cross (adjective)
  • more vexed,
  • faultfinding,
  • more pettish,
  • most vexed,
  • out humor,
  • most pettish.
  •disagreeable (adjective)
  • whiniest,
  • whinier,
  • unlikable.
  •disgruntled (adjective)
  • dis satisfied,
  • more griping,
  • dis appointed,
  • dis-contented,
  • most uncontent,
  • most grousing,
  • more grousing,
  • dis-content,
  • bad tempered,
  • more uncontent,
  • most malcontented,
  • most discontented,
  • most griping,
  • dis-appointed,
  • most kicking,
  • dis content,
  • dis-satisfied,
  • most crabbing,
  • dis pleased,
  • most ungratified,
  • un content,
  • most bellyaching,
  • more crabbing,
  • uncontent,
  • most kvetching,
  • more bellyaching,
  • more kvetching,
  • un-content,
  • un-gratified,
  • un gratified,
  • dis-pleased,
  • more malcontented,
  • dis contented,
  • more kicking,
  • more ungratified.
  •fretful (adjective)
  • un easy,
  • un easier,
  • short tempered,
  • wreckest,
  • un-easiest,
  • shorttempered,
  • un-easier,
  • worried,
  • un easiest.
  •froward (adjective)
  • in submissive,
  • more insubmissive,
  • un favorable,
  • most insubmissive,
  • un-favorable,
  • in-submissive,
  • insubmissive.
  •huffy (adjective)
  • ex-asperated,
  • more huffish,
  • most irked,
  • most riled,
  • miffed,
  • most moping,
  • more riled,
  • more exasperated,
  • more irked,
  • more nettled,
  • more piqued,
  • more moping,
  • most exasperated,
  • most nettled,
  • ex asperated,
  • most piqued,
  • most huffish.
  •ill-natured (adjective)
  • ill natured,
  • hot tempered,
  • most tempersome,
  • un-kinder,
  • most cussed,
  • un kind,
  • more tempersome,
  • illnatured,
  • un-kindest,
  • tempersome,
  • un kinder,
  • more cussed,
  • un-kind,
  • un kindest.
  •ill-tempered (adjective)
  • crabbed.
  •irascible (adjective)
  • ogrest,
  • ogrer.
  •irritable (adjective)
  • bellicose,
  • petty,
  • bitchy,
  • Fretting,
  • churlish,
  • tart,
  • oversensitive,
  • acerbic,
  • spiteful,
  • bitter,
  • acid,
  • easily offended,
  • caustic.
  •moody (adjective)
  • down mouth,
  • introspective,
  • down dumps,
  • down the mouth,
  • in huff,
  • down the dumps.
  •Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • gladiatorial,
  • out-of-sorts,
  • down in dumps,
  • grouchy,
  • prickly,
  • dissentious,
  • nasty-tempered,
  • acrimonious,
  • waspish,
  • quarrelsome,
  • cross,
  • wrecker,
  • ungratified,
  • moody,
  • kvetching,
  • perverse,
  • querulous,
  • grousing,
  • pettish,
  • Perturbable,
  • nit-picking,
  • pugnacious,
  • contentious,
  • out of humor,
  • irascible,
  • testy,
  • shrewish,
  • Malcontented,
  • down in the dumps,
  • waspy,
  • bearish,
  • grumpy,
  • in doldrums,
  • vinegarish,
  • disgruntled,
  • warrer,
  • bundle of nerves,
  • head-strong,
  • cat-and-dog,
  • hardnosed,
  • Chuffy,
  • peevish,
  • Mumpish,
  • in the doldrums,
  • Exceptive,
  • touchy,
  • ructious,
  • captious,
  • huffish,
  • down in mouth,
  • hottempered,
  • sullen,
  • Cavillous,
  • quick-tempered,
  • over critical,
  • vinegary,
  • disagreeable,
  • in a huff,
  • cantankerous,
  • self-willed.
  •peevish (adjective)
  • more out of sorts,
  • most out of sorts,
  • waspiest,
  • most growling,
  • more whining,
  • more growling,
  • more out-of-sorts,
  • waspier,
  • most out-of-sorts,
  • most whining.
  •perverse (adjective)
  • dis-obedient,
  • dis obedient,
  • most self willed,
  • most selfwilled,
  • more selfwilled,
  • un yielding,
  • un healthy,
  • selfwilled,
  • more self willed,
  • de-generate,
  • un-healthiest,
  • un-healthy,
  • un-reasonable,
  • un healthier,
  • most self-willed,
  • un reasonable,
  • un-yielding,
  • un healthiest,
  • hard nosed,
  • de generate,
  • self willed,
  • more self-willed.
  •pugnacious (adjective)
  • have bone to pick,
  • itching to fight,
  • have a bone to pick,
  • ready to fight,
  • self-assertive.
  •quarrelsome (adjective)
  • ex-citable,
  • have chip shoulder,
  • most cat and dog,
  • more dissentious,
  • warrest,
  • cat and dog,
  • more ructious,
  • most dissentious,
  • most gladiatorial,
  • most cat-and-dog,
  • have chip on shoulder,
  • most ructious,
  • more cat and dog,
  • ex citable,
  • more cat-and-dog,
  • more gladiatorial.
  •querulous (adjective)
  • Grumbly,
  • thin-skinned touchy,
  • out of sorts peevish,
  • huffy irascible,
  • wailing.
  •quick-tempered (adjective)
  • quicktempered,
  • quick tempered,
  • in-flammable,
  • in flammable.
  •sullen (adjective)
  • dark,
  • unsociable,
  • dour,
  • uncooperative,
  • sourpussed,
  • glum,
  • frowning,
  • melancholy,
  • unfriendly,
  • dejected,
  • broody,
  • long-faced,
  • glowering,
  • dissociable,
  • pouty,
  • malevolent,
  • cynical,
  • grim,
  • scowling,
  • beetle-browed,
  • noncooperative,
  • tenebrific,
  • hostile,
  • ungenial,
  • Moping.
  •temperamental (adjective)
  • easily upset,
  • hyper,
  • in bad mood.
  •touchy (adjective)
  • most perturbable,
  • un-safer,
  • un safer,
  • un-safest,
  • bundle nerves,
  • pre carious,
  • pre-carious,
  • un safest,
  • more perturbable,
  • wired up,
  • un safe,
  • un-safe.

• n.

  •
  • irritated,
  • displeased,
  • annoyed,
  • upset,
  • put out,
  • belligerent,
  • mad,
  • angry,
  • fed up.
  •
  • nasty,
  • out of sorts,
  • ugly,
  • snappy,
  • attitude.
  •Other relevant words: (noun)
  • contrary,
  • short,
  • bolshy,
  • irritable,
  • impatient,
  • snappish,
  • fuse,
  • peppery,
  • ratty,
  • crabby,
  • huffy,
  • bed,
  • argumentative,
  • Hell,
  • fractious,
  • ornery,
  • sensitivity,
  • short-tempered,
  • stroppy,
  • hot,
  • sour,
  • crusty,
  • crotchety,
  • techy,
  • bear,
  • peckish,
  • spiky,
  • wear,
  • scratchy,
  • quick temper,
  • bilious,
  • tetchy,
  • ill-tempered,
  • surly,
  • curmudgeon,
  • truculent,
  • nettlesome,
  • cranky,
  • Chippy,
  • shrew,
  • bad-tempered,
  • dyspeptic,
  • contrariness,
  • narky,
  • scrappy,
  • obstreperous,
  • spoil,
  • dispute.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • autocratic.
  •Other relevant words (noun):
  • depressed,
  • currish,
  • peremptory,
  • impressionable,
  • Snippety,
  • cutting,
  • pindling,
  • emotional,
  • Naggy,
  • arbitrary,
  • hotheaded,
  • funereal,
  • bothersome,
  • disputatious,
  • edgy,
  • highly strung,
  • plaguy,
  • Squabbling,
  • pesky,
  • uneven,
  • Moanful,
  • disappointed,
  • muttering,
  • snippy,
  • ungoverned,
  • curt,
  • bitching,
  • grating,
  • unpleasant,
  • vehement,
  • sulking,
  • on edge,
  • fussy,
  • Snarling,
  • brusque,
  • crank,
  • Humorsome,
  • liverish,
  • murmuring,
  • supersensitive,
  • harebrained,
  • vicious,
  • warm,
  • sublime,
  • vexatious,
  • plaintive,
  • fantastic,
  • hot-blooded,
  • unhappy,
  • abrasive,
  • hot-tempered,
  • dismal,
  • rough,
  • lugubrious,
  • harsh,
  • Hot-headed,
  • unfulfilled,
  • huff,
  • quirky,
  • wilful,
  • vexing,
  • tender,
  • cross-grained,
  • maggoty,
  • vagrant,
  • teasing,
  • stubborn,
  • bluff,
  • restless,
  • sombre,
  • dissatisfied,
  • embittered,
  • het up,
  • fantastical,
  • sarcastic,
  • shirty,
  • wise man,
  • blunt,
  • recalcitrant,
  • stuffy,
  • pert,
  • unreasonable,
  • antagonistic,
  • terse,
  • pestiferous,
  • passionate,
  • in a pique,
  • discontent,
  • growling,
  • responsive,
  • fiery,
  • curmudgeonly,
  • ill-humoured,
  • dissident,
  • susceptible,
  • peeved,
  • rebellious,
  • grumpish,
  • annoying,
  • hypercritical,
  • choleric,
  • unsatisfied,
  • wailful,
  • envious,
  • attuned,
  • stinging,
  • irritating,
  • restive,
  • Griping,
  • lofty,
  • Cavilling,
  • intractable,
  • wayward,
  • catty,
  • sensitive,
  • acerb,
  • sorrowful,
  • querulant,
  • Complaintful,
  • mournful,
  • excitable,
  • fanciful,
  • bellyaching,
  • poetic,
  • discontented,
  • high-strung,
  • capricious,
  • impolite,
  • petition,
  • plaguey,
  • malcontent,
  • wanton,
  • Susceptive,
  • impassioned,
  • Ululant,
  • finicky,
  • Whimpering,
  • rude,
  • vexed,
  • dissentient,
  • gruff,
  • angered,
  • raspy,
  • carping,
  • biting,
  • factious,
  • vixenish,
  • ungovernable,
  • uncivil,
  • froward,
  • volatile,
  • in a pet,
  • litigious,
  • dreary,
  • thin-skinned,
  • overhasty,
  • petulance,
  • resentful,
  • unrestrained,
  • croaking,
  • rasping,
  • explosive,
  • reactive,
  • kinky,
  • tense,
  • vulnerable,
  • Puling,
  • aggressive,
  • wrathful,
  • notional,
  • Vagarious,
  • combative,
  • exasperated,
  • elevated,
  • motiveless,
  • depressing,
  • Fantasied,
  • criticizing,
  • plangent,
  • whimsical,
  • abrupt,
  • unaccepting,
  • hasty,
  • flaky,
  • over-particular,
  • gravelly,
  • browned off,
  • freakish,
  • saucy,
  • finical,
  • beefing,
  • snarky,
  • howling,
  • brooding,
  • provoked,
  • antisocial,
  • eloquent,
  • galling,
  • difficult,
  • bad-humoured,
  • critical,
  • hypersensitive,
  • nagging,
  • Crabbing,
  • discourteous,
  • spotty,
  • untoward,
  • in,
  • acidulous,
  • temperamental,
  • refractory,
  • unaccommodating,
  • pestering,
  • Vixenly,
  • quick,
  • tippy,
  • and Irish cranky,
  • censorious,
  • in high dudgeon,
  • uneasy,
  • Piqued.

Antonyms for Petulant:

• adj.

  • crabby, moody
    cheerful, nice, willing, agreeable, happy, good-natured, patient, pleasant.
  • Other antonyms:
    companionable, accommodating, forbearing, friendly, amiable, compliant, good-tempered, sweet, easygoing, stoic, genial, gregarious, cordial, obliging, carefree, extroverted, outgoing, well-disposed, understanding, relaxed, sociable, happy-go-lucky, kind, tolerant, governable, uncomplaining, long-suffering, amenable, complaisant.