Peevish
['piːvɪʃ] or ['pivɪʃ]
Definition
(a.) Habitually fretful; easily vexed or fretted; hard to please; apt to complain; querulous; petulant.
(a.) Expressing fretfulness and discontent, or unjustifiable dissatisfaction; as, a peevish answer.
(a.) Silly; childish; trifling.
Editor: Rosalie
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Fretful, petulant, querulous, irritable, waspish, snappish, pettish, captious, cross, crusty, snarling, testy, churlish, crabbed, acrimonious, irritable.
Editor: Myra
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Fretful, querulous, petulant, testy, captious, waspish, splenetic, ill-natured,irascible
ANT:Genial, complaisant, insensate, inquerulous, easy, good-natured, good-tempered
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Definition
adj. habitually fretful: easily annoyed: hard to please: showing ill-nature: childish.—adv. Peev′ishly.—n. Peev′ishness.
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Examples
- I expect he be mighty peevish when he find we ain't got no more sense than to stay right here after he done give us the chance to get away. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- His tears and lamentations made Becky more peevish than ever. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- This both I and Mr. Dundas took pains to impress on his mind; but the peevish, fretful creature refused to hear reason. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- The family had never known her so peevish. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- One morning little Georgette had been more feverish and consequently more peevish; she was crying, and would not be pacified. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
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