Definition for Snappish:

• Apt to snap at persons or things; eager to bite; as, a snapping cur.

Synonyms for Snappish:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • snappish.
  •cantankerous (adjective)
  • huffy,
  • perverse,
  • dour,
  • choleric,
  • crotchety,
  • critical,
  • ill-humored,
  • contrary,
  • obstinate,
  • stuffy,
  • ill-natured,
  • sour,
  • morose.
  •crabby (adjective)
  • chuffiest,
  • most mumpish,
  • chuffier,
  • more mumpish.
  •crabby/crabbed (adjective)
  • surly,
  • acrid,
  • acid,
  • cynical,
  • churlish,
  • glum,
  • gloomy,
  • sullen,
  • unsociable,
  • brusque,
  • saturnine,
  • acrimonious,
  • harsh,
  • misanthropic,
  • trying,
  • tough,
  • awkward,
  • blunt,
  • difficult,
  • sulky.
  •cranky (adjective)
  • quick-tempered,
  • tetchy,
  • cussed,
  • ratty,
  • hot-tempered.
  •crusty (adjective)
  • crabbed,
  • gruff,
  • sarcastic,
  • Snippety,
  • brief,
  • bluff,
  • Snarling,
  • scornful,
  • abrupt.
  •curt (adjective)
  • short and sweet,
  • pithy,
  • concise,
  • uncivil,
  • unceremonious,
  • succinct,
  • ungracious,
  • summary,
  • peremptory,
  • terse,
  • sharp,
  • offhand,
  • imperious,
  • laconic,
  • compendious.
  •fractious (adjective)
  • recalcitrant,
  • wild,
  • wayward,
  • undisciplined,
  • restive,
  • unruly,
  • froward,
  • disorderly,
  • thin-skinned,
  • fractious,
  • indocile,
  • unmanageable,
  • indomitable,
  • uncompliant,
  • refractory,
  • intractable,
  • pettish,
  • scrappy.
  •fretful (adjective)
  • carping,
  • caviling,
  • uneasy,
  • faultfinding,
  • worried,
  • complaining.
  •huffy (adjective)
  • vexed,
  • annoyed,
  • angered,
  • moody,
  • miffed,
  • peeved,
  • offended,
  • stewed,
  • irked,
  • insulted,
  • resentful,
  • disgruntled,
  • provoked,
  • put out,
  • Piqued,
  • Moping,
  • exasperated,
  • hurt,
  • nettled,
  • riled.
  •peppery (adjective)
  • most sharp tempered,
  • sharp tempered,
  • most sharptempered,
  • more sharp tempered,
  • most sharp-tempered,
  • more sharptempered,
  • more sharp-tempered,
  • sharptempered.
  •petulant (adjective)
  • dis-pleased,
  • most crybaby,
  • dis pleased,
  • grumbling,
  • whinier,
  • whiniest,
  • fault finding,
  • whiny,
  • more whining,
  • most whining,
  • more crybaby,
  • most pouting,
  • more pouting.
  •short-tempered (adjective)
  • more shortfused,
  • more peckish,
  • shortfused,
  • most short fused,
  • most shortfused,
  • more short-fused,
  • more short fused,
  • shorttempered,
  • hot blooded,
  • most peckish,
  • short tempered,
  • most short-fused.
  •snappish (adjective)
  • peevish,
  • touchy,
  • edgy,
  • short,
  • irritable.
  •snippy (adjective)
  • sharptongued,
  • sharp tongued.
  •tart (adjective)
  • more wounding,
  • most wounding,
  • tangy,
  • most acetose,
  • more acetose.

• n.

  •
  • attitude,
  • disagreeable,
  • ugly,
  • nasty,
  • out of sorts,
  • mean.
  •cross (noun)
  • angry.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • bad-tempered.
  •
  • grouchy,
  • crabby,
  • rude,
  • ill-tempered,
  • grumpy,
  • querulous,
  • fretful.
  •bad-tempered
  • quarrelsome.

Antonyms for Snappish:

• adj.

  • cantankerous
    happy, pleasant, easy, nice.
  • cranky
    cheerful, amiable.
  • curt
    gracious, polite, ceremonious, lengthy, civil.
  • fractious
    agreeable, patient, complaisant.
  • fretful
    laid-back, calm, easy-going, relaxed, pleased, Cheered, joyous.
  • huffy
    joyful, delighted.
  • snappish
    good-natured.
  • Other antonyms:
    good-tempered, mild, uncomplaining, extroverted, carefree, outgoing, sweet, affable, genial, benignant, gregarious, happy-go-lucky, long-suffering, companionable, well-disposed, kind, tolerant, loving, cordial, bland, indulgent, stoic, understanding, tender, easygoing, gentle, sociable, forbearing, friendly, sympathetic, obliging.

Snappish Sentence Examples:

• A passionate man will keep all his animals in moral fear of him, making them, snappish, and liable to hurt those of whom they are not afraid.

• Meanwhile Mr. Bonamy went home, and finding his family already at breakfast, sat down to the meal in a very snappish humor.

Homophones for Snappish:

• snips, snuffbox, snobbish, somnific, swamp buggy, symphysis, sambucus, sciaenops, sinapis, sambuca, swamp ash, synapsis, sunfish, scum bag, swamp oak, synopsis, Semiopaque, snipefish, schnapps, symbiosis, schnaps, synapse, sinopis.