About The Word Petulant
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Petulant
Petulant Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Petulant?
[adj] easily irritated or annoyed; "an incorrigibly fractious young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Petulant: cranky | fractious | ill-natured | irritable | nettlesome | peckish | peevish | pettish | techy | testy | tetchy Related Terms | Find terms related to Petulant: arbitrary | bad-tempered | beefing | bellyaching | bilious | bitching | cantankerous | capricious | captious | catty | choleric | complaining | complaintful | crabbed | crabbing | crabby | cranky | croaking | cross | crotchety | disappointed | discontented | disgruntled | displeased | dissatisfied | envious | fanciful | fantasied | fantastic | faultfinding | flaky | fractious | freakish | fretful | griping | grouchy | grousing | growling | grumbling | grumpy | harebrained | howling | huffish | huffy | humorsome | ill-humored | ill-tempered | impatient | irascible | irritable | Jeremianic | kinky | lamentive | maggoty | malcontent | malcontented | moanful | moody | motiveless | mournful | murmuring | muttering | nagging | naggy | notional | out of humor | peevish | perverse | pettish | plaintive | plangent | puling | querulant | querulous | quirky | rebellious | resentful | restive | restless | shrewish | snappish | sorrowful | sour | splenetic | sulky | temperamental | testy | ululant | unaccepting | unaccommodating | uneasy | unfulfilled | ungratified | unhappy | unreasonable | unrestrained | unsatisfied | vagarious | vagrant | vixenish | vixenly | wailful | wanton | waspish | wayward | whimpering | whimsical | whining | whiny See Also | Petulant In Webster's Dictionary \Pet"u*lant\, a. [L. petulans, -antis, prop., making
slight attacks upon, from a lost dim. of petere to fall upon,
to attack: cf. F. p['e]tulant. See {Petition}.]
1. Forward; pert; insolent; wanton. [Obs.] --Burton.
2. Capriciously fretful; characterized by ill-natured
freakishness; irritable. ``Petulant moods.'' --Macaulay.
Syn: Irritable; ill-humored; peevish; cross; fretful;
querulous.
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