593 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ tˈɛsti], [ tˈɛsti], [ t_ˈɛ_s_t_i]

Similar words for testy:

• acrimonious (adjective)
• angry (adjective)
• argumentative (adjective)
• cantankerous (adjective)
• captious (adjective)
• crabby (adjective)
• crabby/crabbed (adjective)
• cross (adjective)
• crotchety (adjective)
• crusty (adjective)
• disgruntled (adjective)
• eristic (adjective)
• excitable (adjective)
• fretful (adjective)
• hot-tempered (adjective)
• huffy (adjective)
• impatient (adjective)
• irascible (adjective)
• irritable (adjective)
• irritable, touchy (adjective)
• moody (adjective)
• morose (adjective)
• ornery (adjective)
• other relevant words (adjective)
• passionate (adjective)
• peppery (adjective)
• petulant (adjective)
• querulous (adjective)
• quick-tempered (adjective)
• short (adjective)
• short-tempered (adjective)
• surly (adjective)
• tart (adjective)
• touchy (adjective)
• ill-natured (noun)
• other relevant words (noun)
• other relevant words (verb)
• other synonyms
• bad-tempered
• other relevant words (noun)

How to use "testy" in context?

Synonyms for Testy:

• adj.

  • acrimonious (adjective)
  • splenetic,
  • most splenetic,
  • mordant,
  • more splenetic.
  • angry (adjective)
  • passionate.
  • argumentative (adjective)
  • Eristic.
  • cantankerous (adjective)
  • dis agreeable,
  • badtempered,
  • more vinegary,
  • more illhumored,
  • most vinegary,
  • ill natured,
  • most vinegarish,
  • ill humored,
  • more vinegarish,
  • more ill-humored,
  • illnatured,
  • more ill humored,
  • illhumored,
  • obstinate,
  • most bearish,
  • most ill humored,
  • more bearish,
  • most illhumored,
  • most ill-humored,
  • ill-humored,
  • dis-agreeable.
  • captious (adjective)
  • overcritical,
  • more caviling,
  • over-critical,
  • more exceptive,
  • hyper critical,
  • more cavillous,
  • ex-acting,
  • nit picking,
  • most cavillous,
  • ex acting,
  • more nit-picking,
  • hyper-critical,
  • more deprecating,
  • most nit picking,
  • most deprecating,
  • most nit-picking,
  • most caviling,
  • most exceptive,
  • more nit picking,
  • fault finding.
  • crabby (adjective)
  • chuffiest,
  • most mumpish,
  • chuffier,
  • more mumpish.
  • crabby/crabbed (adjective)
  • more difficult,
  • more nasty-tempered,
  • nastytempered,
  • nasty tempered,
  • most nasty-tempered,
  • most nastytempered,
  • most nasty tempered,
  • more nastytempered,
  • mis anthropic,
  • un-sociable,
  • mis-anthropic,
  • more nasty tempered,
  • un sociable,
  • most crabbed,
  • gloomy.
  • cross (adjective)
  • most pettish,
  • most vexed,
  • faultfinding,
  • more vexed,
  • out humor,
  • more pettish.
  • crotchety (adjective)
  • curmudgeonly,
  • waspy,
  • cross-grained,
  • Crossgrained.
  • crusty (adjective)
  • more snarling,
  • most snarling.
  • disgruntled (adjective)
  • dis contented,
  • un-content,
  • more malcontented,
  • more kicking,
  • dis satisfied,
  • bad tempered,
  • dis-satisfied,
  • dis-appointed,
  • uncontent,
  • most uncontent,
  • more crabbing,
  • most kicking,
  • most ungratified,
  • dis content,
  • most bellyaching,
  • more uncontent,
  • most griping,
  • dis-contented,
  • dis appointed,
  • more griping,
  • most discontented,
  • most grousing,
  • most malcontented,
  • more ungratified,
  • dis-pleased,
  • dis-content,
  • more grousing,
  • dis pleased,
  • most kvetching,
  • un gratified,
  • more kvetching,
  • un content,
  • more bellyaching,
  • most crabbing,
  • un-gratified.
  • eristic (adjective)
  • more eristical,
  • most eristical.
  • excitable (adjective)
  • hysterical,
  • fidgety,
  • Agitable,
  • reckless,
  • galvanic,
  • volcanic,
  • excitable,
  • over-zealous,
  • overzealous,
  • Alarmable,
  • short fused,
  • mercurial.
  • fretful (adjective)
  • out sorts,
  • wreckest,
  • worried.
  • hot-tempered (adjective)
  • hot tempered.
  • huffy (adjective)
  • miffed,
  • most riled,
  • most huffish,
  • more nettled,
  • ex-asperated,
  • most moping,
  • more piqued,
  • more exasperated,
  • ex asperated,
  • most exasperated,
  • more irked,
  • more moping,
  • most irked,
  • more huffish,
  • more riled,
  • most nettled,
  • most piqued.
  • impatient (adjective)
  • head-long,
  • head long,
  • racing motor,
  • most unindulgent,
  • unindulgent,
  • more straining,
  • un-indulgent,
  • more chafing,
  • on pins needles,
  • most straining,
  • thirsty,
  • most chafing,
  • more unindulgent,
  • ripe,
  • racing one motor,
  • racing one's motor,
  • most appetent,
  • un indulgent,
  • racing ones motor,
  • headlong,
  • more appetent.
  • irascible (adjective)
  • ogrest,
  • up-tight,
  • ogrer,
  • up tight.
  • irritable (adjective)
  • Fretting,
  • easily offended,
  • oversensitive.
  • irritable, touchy (adjective)
  • thin-skinned,
  • uptight,
  • annoyed,
  • ornery,
  • out of sorts,
  • exasperated.
  • moody (adjective)
  • down the dumps,
  • down the mouth,
  • introspective,
  • down mouth,
  • in huff,
  • down dumps.
  • morose (adjective)
  • most perversive,
  • having blahs,
  • more perversive,
  • singing blues,
  • in a blue funk.
  • ornery (adjective)
  • hard nosed,
  • un friendlier,
  • un-friendlier,
  • un-friendly,
  • un-friendliest,
  • hardnosed,
  • un friendliest.
  • Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • irascible,
  • waspish,
  • quick-tempered,
  • hottempered,
  • pettish,
  • cantankerous,
  • unforbearing,
  • in bad mood,
  • huffish,
  • captious,
  • steamed up,
  • grouchy,
  • nit-picking,
  • peppery,
  • in blue funk,
  • bearish,
  • surly,
  • having blue devils,
  • Chuffy,
  • peckish,
  • acrimonious,
  • Cavillous,
  • querulous,
  • Perturbable,
  • acetose,
  • perversive,
  • nasty-tempered,
  • grousing,
  • in a huff,
  • singing the blues,
  • snarky,
  • sharp-tempered,
  • disgruntled,
  • impatient,
  • Malcontented,
  • bundle of nerves,
  • down in the dumps,
  • over critical,
  • kvetching,
  • in the doldrums,
  • vinegary,
  • Mumpish,
  • down in dumps,
  • in doldrums,
  • steamed-up,
  • grumpy,
  • hotblooded,
  • moody,
  • short-tempered,
  • hypersensitive,
  • all shook up,
  • having the blahs,
  • wrecker,
  • on pins and needles,
  • hot under collar,
  • Exceptive,
  • contentious,
  • down in mouth,
  • Eristical,
  • hot-tempered,
  • petulant,
  • out of humor,
  • tart,
  • having short fuse,
  • vinegarish,
  • in a bad mood,
  • ungratified,
  • dying to,
  • touchy,
  • crotchety,
  • short-fused,
  • crusty.
  • passionate (adjective)
  • steamedup,
  • more steamedup,
  • more steamed up,
  • in-flamed,
  • most steamed up,
  • most steamed-up,
  • more steamed-up,
  • most steamedup,
  • in flamed.
  • peppery (adjective)
  • more sharp-tempered,
  • most sharp tempered,
  • most sharp-tempered,
  • more sharp tempered,
  • sharptempered,
  • most sharptempered,
  • more sharptempered,
  • sharp tempered.
  • petulant (adjective)
  • more pouting,
  • un-gracious,
  • more whining,
  • most crybaby,
  • whinier,
  • whiniest,
  • un gracious,
  • most whining,
  • most pouting,
  • whiny,
  • more crybaby.
  • querulous (adjective)
  • out of sorts peevish,
  • wailing,
  • huffy irascible,
  • thin-skinned touchy,
  • Grumbly.
  • quick-tempered (adjective)
  • quick tempered,
  • quicktempered.
  • short (adjective)
  • shortest,
  • breviloquent.
  • short-tempered (adjective)
  • more short fused,
  • more peckish,
  • most shortfused,
  • most peckish,
  • most short fused,
  • most short-fused,
  • hot blooded,
  • shortfused,
  • more shortfused,
  • short tempered,
  • shorttempered,
  • more short-fused.
  • surly (adjective)
  • dis-courteous,
  • illmannered,
  • dis courteous,
  • ill mannered.
  • tart (adjective)
  • most acetose,
  • tangy,
  • more wounding,
  • most wounding,
  • more acetose.
  • touchy (adjective)
  • un safer,
  • un-safest,
  • un-safer,
  • bundle nerves,
  • un-predictable,
  • pre-carious,
  • un safest,
  • hyper-sensitive,
  • most hypersensitive,
  • un-safe,
  • hyper sensitive,
  • un predictable,
  • more hypersensitive,
  • wired up,
  • un safe,
  • most perturbable,
  • pre carious,
  • more perturbable.

• n.

  •
  • sensitive,
  • temperamental.
  •
  • feelings.
  •
  • nasty,
  • snappy,
  • attitude,
  • mean,
  • ugly,
  • disagreeable.
  • ill-natured (noun)
  • ill-natured.
  • Other relevant words: (noun)
  • fractious,
  • fretful,
  • bad-tempered,
  • morose,
  • choleric,
  • sharp,
  • gruff,
  • nettlesome,
  • irritable,
  • grumbling,
  • Hot-headed,
  • techy,
  • peevish,
  • umbrageous,
  • ill-tempered,
  • scratchy,
  • huffy,
  • tetchy,
  • edgy,
  • crabby,
  • sullen,
  • bilious,
  • snappish.

• v.

  • Other relevant words: (verb)
  • cranky,
  • cross,
  • behaviour.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • crabbed.
  • bad-tempered
  • quarrelsome.
  • Other relevant words (noun):
  • curt,
  • furious,
  • rasping,
  • bitter,
  • criticizing,
  • critical,
  • refractory,
  • fussy,
  • hotheaded,
  • warm,
  • Snippety,
  • abusive,
  • violent,
  • belligerent,
  • acid,
  • capricious,
  • vulnerable,
  • terse,
  • patchy,
  • liverish,
  • responsive,
  • in high dudgeon,
  • stinging,
  • obnoxious,
  • crank,
  • nervous,
  • raspy,
  • spirited,
  • dissident,
  • explosive,
  • spotty,
  • demanding,
  • Squabbling,
  • sardonic,
  • awkward,
  • ill-mannered,
  • vexing,
  • uncooperative,
  • disputatious,
  • restive,
  • displeased,
  • argumentative,
  • grumpish,
  • irritated,
  • irate,
  • pugnacious,
  • dyspeptic,
  • shrewish,
  • blunt,
  • unfriendly,
  • indignant,
  • discourteous,
  • high-strung,
  • highly strung,
  • irritating,
  • ill-humoured,
  • churlish,
  • quick,
  • sulky,
  • supersensitive,
  • emotional,
  • cutting,
  • finicky,
  • animated,
  • currish,
  • offhand,
  • pestiferous,
  • volatile,
  • dissentient,
  • impetuous,
  • het up,
  • acerbic,
  • Spleeny,
  • barbed,
  • impolite,
  • put out,
  • apprehensive,
  • uncivil,
  • overhasty,
  • discontent,
  • Cavilling,
  • restless,
  • murmuring,
  • antagonistic,
  • bad-humoured,
  • harsh,
  • embittered,
  • fervent,
  • pesky,
  • vigorous,
  • contrary,
  • feverish,
  • disappointed,
  • prickly,
  • aggressive,
  • pestering,
  • in,
  • spiteful,
  • tense,
  • bitchy,
  • turbulent,
  • feisty,
  • trenchant,
  • stroppy,
  • acidulous,
  • incisive,
  • biting,
  • Uncourtly,
  • eager,
  • peremptory,
  • short,
  • Susceptive,
  • caustic,
  • susceptible,
  • lively,
  • Snarling,
  • corrosive,
  • combative,
  • hostile,
  • vexed,
  • whining,
  • ratty,
  • grating,
  • fervid,
  • bitching,
  • bad-natured,
  • sour,
  • bad-mannered,
  • Fault-finding,
  • vexatious,
  • litigious,
  • intense,
  • Cankered,
  • jumpy,
  • ardent,
  • rough,
  • carping,
  • angered,
  • hot,
  • high-keyed,
  • impressionable,
  • fiery,
  • stormy,
  • acerb,
  • in a pique,
  • impassioned,
  • brusque,
  • unpleasant,
  • vicious,
  • plaguy,
  • galling,
  • dissentious,
  • worked up,
  • hot-blooded,
  • heated,
  • provoked,
  • peeved,
  • cheesed off,
  • impulsive,
  • over-particular,
  • bellicose,
  • satiric,
  • disobliging,
  • browned off,
  • finical,
  • cynical,
  • keen,
  • virulent,
  • hypercritical,
  • cussed,
  • zealous,
  • perverse,
  • on edge,
  • complaining,
  • dissatisfied,
  • astringent,
  • Short-spoken,
  • excited,
  • malcontent,
  • plaguey,
  • tender,
  • shirty,
  • and Irish cranky,
  • in a pet,
  • sarcastic,
  • anxious,
  • wrathful,
  • huff,
  • snippy,
  • rude,
  • attuned,
  • bluff,
  • annoying,
  • fed up,
  • censorious,
  • reactive,
  • obstreperous,
  • discontented,
  • unhappy,
  • teasing,
  • Piqued,
  • angry,
  • abrupt,
  • bothersome,
  • scathing,
  • stuffy,
  • hasty.

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