petulant
11petulant — I adjective acrimonious, annoyed, argumentative, bad tempered, bearish, cantankerous, captious, carping, cavilling, censorious, choleric, churlish, contentious, crabbed, crabby, cranky, cross, cross tempered, crusty, curmudgeonly, difficult,… …
12petulant — irritable, fractious, peevish, pettish, snappish, waspish, huffy, fretful, querulous Analogous words: cross, cranky, touchy, testy (see IRASCIBLE): impatient, restive, fidgety …
13petulant — [adj] crabby, moody bad tempered, captious, caviling, complaining, cranky*, cross, crybaby*, displeased, fault finding, fractious, fretful, grouchy, grumbling, huffy, ill humored, impatient, irritable, mean, peevish, perverse, pouting, querulous …
14petulant — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ childishly sulky or bad tempered. DERIVATIVES petulance noun petulantly adverb. ORIGIN Latin petulans impudent …
15petulant — [[t]pe̱tʃʊlənt[/t]] ADJ GRADED Someone who is petulant is unreasonably angry and upset in a childish way. His critics say he s just being silly and petulant... He picked the pen up with a petulant gesture. Derived words: petulantly ADV GRADED ADV …
16PÉTULANT — ANTE. adj. Vif, impétueux et brusque, qui a peine à se contenir. Il est fort pétulant. Il est d un naturel pétulant, d une humeur pétulante …
17petulant — petulantly, adv. /pech euh leuhnt/, adj. moved to or showing sudden, impatient irritation, esp. over some trifling annoyance: a petulant toss of the head. [1590 1600; < L petulant (s. of petulans) impudent, akin to petere to seek, head for] Syn.… …
18petulant — [ pɛtjʊl(ə)nt] adjective childishly sulky or bad tempered. Derivatives petulance noun petulantly adverb Origin C16 (in the sense immodest ): from Fr. pétulant, from L. petulant impudent …
19petulant — adjective Etymology: Latin or Middle French; Middle French, from Latin petulant , petulans; akin to Latin petere to go to, attack, seek more at feather Date: 1598 1. insolent or rude in speech or behavior 2. characterized by temporary or… …
20petulant — adjective /ˈpɛtʃələnt,ˈpɛtjələnt/ childishly irritable. Lack of sleep is causing Daves recent petulant behavior. Syn: huffy, snappish, irritable, grouchy, bad tempered, ill tempered Ant: eas …
