ill-tempered
111cranky — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. irritable (see irascibility). Ant., amiable, good natured. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. cross, testy, crotchety, fretful; see irritable . See Synonym Study at irritable . III (Roget s 3… …
112Irascibility — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Irascibility >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 irascibility irascibility irascibleness temper Sgm: N 1 crossness crossness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 susceptibility susceptibility procacity petulance irritability …
113crotchety — adjective it s the dreadful arthritis that has made him so crotchety Syn: bad tempered, irascible, irritable, grumpy, grouchy, cantankerous, short tempered, tetchy, testy, curmudgeonly, ill tempered, ill humored, ill natured, cross grained,… …
114grumpy — adjective Matthau s grumpy old man was a tour de force Syn: bad tempered, crabby, ill tempered, short tempered, crotchety, tetchy, testy, waspish, prickly, touchy, irritable, irascible, crusty, cantankerous, curmudgeonly, bearish, surly, ill… …
115churlish — adj 1. rustic, rural, peasantlike, agrestic, agrarian; pastoral, bucolic, bucolical, sylvan or silvan, Arcadian; inurbane, backwoods, provincial, countrified, countrybred, country born, upcountry, from the sticks, yokelish, Sl. hickish, Sl. rube …
116surly — adj 1. cantankerous, irascible, iracund, obnoxious, crabbed, choleric, brusque, peppery, crusty; grumpy, grouchy, crotchety, dyspeptic, thorny, bearish, snarling, growling; cross, feisty, huffy, sulky, sullen, biiious, cranky, peevish, irritable; …
117waspish — adj 1. resentful, spiteful, peevish, petulant, querulous; touchy, testy, tetchy, thin skinned, prickly, sensitive, oversensitive, hypersensitive, quick to take offense. 2. irritable, irascible, cranky, cross, cantankerous, feisty, huffish;… …
118snappish — Synonyms and related words: abrupt, acerbic, acid, bearish, bitchy, brusque, cankered, cantankerous, choleric, churlish, crabbed, crabby, cranky, cross, cross grained, crusty, curt, cussed, disagreeable, dyspeptic, excitable, feisty, fractious,… …
119crabbed — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. crabby, ill tempered, irascible, surly, growly, cross, peevish; cramped, illegible, squeezed. See irascibility, unintelligibility. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Sour tempered] Syn. grouchy, peevish,… …
120cantankerous — adj surly, irascible, iracund, crabbed, crabby; unfriendly, ill natured, obnoxious, choleric; brusque, peppery, crusty, grumpy, grouchy, dyspeptic, bearish, snappish, snarling; cross, feisty, huffy, irritable, cranky, peevish, bilious, testy,… …
