All cantankerousness synonyms

noun cantankerousness

• tantrum — a violent demonstration of rage or frustration; a sudden burst of ill temper.
• impatience — lack of patience.
• rage — angry fury; violent anger (sometimes used in combination): a speech full of rage; incidents of road rage.
• fury — unrestrained or violent anger, rage, passion, or the like: The gods unleashed their fury on the offending mortal.
• sensitivity — the state or quality of being sensitive; sensitiveness.
• resentment — the feeling of displeasure or indignation at some act, remark, person, etc., regarded as causing injury or insult.
• passion — any powerful or compelling emotion or feeling, as love or hate.
• anger — Anger is the strong emotion that you feel when you think that someone has behaved in an unfair, cruel, or unacceptable way.
• ire — intense anger; wrath.
• outburst — a sudden and violent release or outpouring: an outburst of tears.
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• irascibility — easily provoked to anger; very irritable: an irascible old man.
• snit — an agitated or irritated state.
• irritation — the act of irritating or the state of being irritated.
• irritability — the quality or state of being irritable.
• annoyance — Annoyance is the feeling that you get when someone makes you feel fairly angry or impatient.
• pugnacity — inclined to quarrel or fight readily; quarrelsome; belligerent; combative.
• fit — adapted or suited; appropriate: This water isn't fit for drinking. A long-necked giraffe is fit for browsing treetops.
• acerbity — Acerbity is a kind of bitter, critical humour.
• wax — a fit of anger; rage.
• furor — a general outburst of enthusiasm, excitement, controversy, or the like.
• tizzy — Slang. a dither. a nervous, excited, or distracted state.
• heat — the state of a body perceived as having or generating a relatively high degree of warmth.
• stew — to cook (food) by simmering or slow boiling.
• peevishness — cross, querulous, or fretful, as from vexation or discontent: a peevish youngster.
• miff — petulant displeasure; ill humor.
• tear — the act of tearing.
• tartness — sharp to the taste; sour or acid: Tart apples are best for pie. Synonyms: astringent, acrid, piquant. Antonyms: sweet, sugary, bland, mellow.
• sullenness — showing irritation or ill humor by a gloomy silence or reserve.
• dander — small particles or scales of hair or feathers
• sourness — having an acid taste, resembling that of vinegar, lemon juice, etc.; tart.
• crossness — the quality or state of being cross or angry; irritability; snappishness.
• surliness — churlishly rude or bad-tempered: a surly waiter. Synonyms: sullen, uncivil, brusque, irascible, splenetic, choleric, cross; grumpy, grouchy, crabby.
• fretful — disposed or quick to fret; irritable or peevish.
• touchy — apt to take offense on slight provocation; irritable: He is very touchy when he's sick.
• huffily — easily offended; touchy.
• temperament — the combination of mental, physical, and emotional traits of a person; natural predisposition.
• spleen — a highly vascular, glandular, ductless organ, situated in humans at the cardiac end of the stomach, serving chiefly in the formation of mature lymphocytes, in the destruction of worn-out red blood cells, and as a reservoir for blood.
• tetchiness — irritable; touchy.
• argumentativeness — fond of or given to argument and dispute; disputatious; contentious: The law students were an unusually argumentative group.
• temper — a particular state of mind or feelings.
• short fuse — a quick temper: A person with a short fuse has to be handled diplomatically.
• grouchy — sullenly discontented; sulky; morose; ill-tempered.
• hot-headed — hot or fiery in spirit or temper; impetuous; rash: Hotheaded people shouldn't drive cars.
• slow burn — a gradual building up of anger, as opposed to an immediate outburst: I did a slow burn as the conversation progressed.
• belligerence — the act or quality of being belligerent or warlike; aggressiveness
• combative — A person who is combative is aggressive and eager to fight or argue.
• contentious — A contentious issue causes a lot of disagreement or arguments.
• disputatious — fond of or given to disputation; argumentative; contentious: disputatious litigants.
• litigiousness — of or relating to litigation.