About The Word Peevish
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Peevish
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What's The Definition Of Peevish?
[adj] easily irritated or annoyed; "an incorrigibly fractious young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Peevish: cranky | fractious | ill-natured | irritable | nettlesome | peckish | pettish | petulant | techy | testy | tetchy Related Terms | Find terms related to Peevish: acrimonious | bad-tempered | beefing | bellyaching | bilious | bitching | cantankerous | captious | carping | catty | caviling | cavilling | churlish | complaining | complaintful | crabbed | crabbing | crabby | cranky | critical | croaking | cross | crotchety | crusty | disappointed | discontented | disgruntled | displeased | dissatisfied | envious | faultfinding | fractious | fretful | griping | grouchy | grousing | growling | grumbling | grumpish | grumpy | howling | huffy | ill-humored | ill-natured | ill-tempered | irritable | Jeremianic | lamentive | malcontent | malcontented | moanful | mournful | murmuring | muttering | nagging | naggy | out of humor | pettish | petulant | plaintive | plangent | puling | querulant | querulous | rebellious | resentful | restive | restless | short-tempered | shrewish | snappish | sorrowful | splenetic | sulky | testy | tetchy | touchy | ululant | unaccepting | unaccommodating | uneasy | unfulfilled | ungratified | unhappy | unsatisfied | vixenish | vixenly | wailful | waspish | whimpering | whining | whiny See Also | Peevish In Webster's Dictionary \Pee"vish\, a. [OE. pevische; of uncertain origin, perh.
from a word imitative of the noise made by fretful children +
-ish.]
1. Habitually fretful; easily vexed or fretted; hard to
please; apt to complain; querulous; petulant. ``Her
peevish babe.'' --Wordsworth.
She is peevish, sullen, froward. --Shak.
2. Expressing fretfulness and discontent, or unjustifiable
dissatisfaction; as, a peevish answer.
3. Silly; childish; trifling. [Obs.]
To send such peevish tokens to a king. --Shak.
Syn: Querulous; petulant; cross; ill-tempered; testy;
captious; discontented. See {Fretful}.
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