Peevish Synonyms and Antonyms

pēvĭsh
Having a sour disposition
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. perverse
  2. pertinacious
  3. morose
In bad humor
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. cross
  2. cranky
  3. fretful
  4. irritable
  5. petulant
  6. cantankerous
  7. testy
  8. irascible
  9. fractious
  10. querulous
  11. snappish
  12. mean
  13. surly
  14. pettish
  15. waspish
  16. bad-tempered
  17. crabbed
  18. disagreeable
  19. atrabiliar
  20. atrabilious
  21. bilious
  22. grouchy
  23. grumpy
  24. captious
  25. carping
  26. ill-tempered
  27. caustic
  28. choleric
  29. contentious
  30. contrary
  31. techy
  32. nasty
  33. critical
  34. crotchety
  35. crusty
  36. discontented
  37. disgruntled
  38. dyspeptic
  39. snappy
  40. gloomy
  41. huffy
  42. impatient
  43. ugly
  44. fretting
  45. obstinate
  46. nettlesome
  47. crabby
  48. ornery
  49. peckish
  50. restive
  51. spleeny
  52. splenetic
  53. sullen
  54. touchy
  55. scratchy
  56. tetchy
Antonyms:
  1. pleasant
  2. friendly
  3. accepting
  4. happy
Inclined to complain
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. querulous
  2. complaining
  3. growling

Words Related to Peevish

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Peevish Sentence Examples

  • It is better to be beggared out of hand by a scapegrace nephew, than daily hag-ridden by a peevish uncle.

  • I think they must have been given to feeble remonstrance, getting more and more peevish as it became more and more ineffectual.

  • Her affection tired very soon, however, and when she grew peevish, Hindley became tyrannical.

  • Member for North-East Hertfordshire experienced halfway through his speech, when he became peevish about proportional representation.

  • His chief defect was an over-sensitiveness, leading to peevish and unreasonable behaviour in his private and official relations, to hasty and unbalanced judgments of persons and things that had given him annoyance, and to a despondency and discouragement which frustrated the great good he might have effected as a philosophic critic of public affairs.

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