All chuffy synonyms
chuffΒ·y
C c adj chuffy
- acid β An acid is a chemical substance, usually a liquid, which contains hydrogen and can react with other substances to form salts. Some acids burn or dissolve other substances that they come into contact with.
- acrid β An acrid smell or taste is strong and sharp, and usually unpleasant.
- acrimonious β Acrimonious words or quarrels are bitter and angry.
- awkward β An awkward situation is embarrassing and difficult to deal with.
- bad-tempered β Someone who is bad-tempered is not very cheerful and gets angry easily.
- blunt β If you are blunt, you say exactly what you think without trying to be polite.
- brusque β blunt or curt in manner or speech
- captious β apt to make trivial criticisms; fault-finding; carping
- choleric β A choleric person gets angry very easily. You can also use choleric to describe a person who is very angry.
- churlish β Someone who is churlish is unfriendly, bad-tempered, or impolite.
- cranky β If you describe ideas or ways of behaving as cranky, you disapprove of them because you think they are strange.
- cross β If you cross something such as a room, a road, or an area of land or water, you move or travel to the other side of it. If you cross to a place, you move or travel over a room, road, or area of land or water in order to reach that place.
- crotchety β A crotchety person is bad-tempered and easily irritated.
- crusty β Crusty bread has a hard, crisp outside.
- cynical β If you describe someone as cynical, you mean they believe that people always act selfishly.
- difficult β not easily or readily done; requiring much labor, skill, or planning to be performed successfully; hard: a difficult job.
- dour β sullen; gloomy: The captain's dour look depressed us all.
- fretful β disposed or quick to fret; irritable or peevish.
- gloomy β dark or dim; deeply shaded: gloomy skies.
- glum β sullenly or silently gloomy; dejected.
- grouchy β sullenly discontented; sulky; morose; ill-tempered.
- harsh β ungentle and unpleasant in action or effect: harsh treatment; harsh manners.
- huffy β easily offended; touchy.
- ill-tempered β bad or irritable disposition.
- irascible β easily provoked to anger; very irritable: an irascible old man.
- misanthropic β of, relating to, or characteristic of a misanthrope.
- morose β gloomily or sullenly ill-humored, as a person or mood.
- peevish β cross, querulous, or fretful, as from vexation or discontent: a peevish youngster.
- perverse β willfully determined or disposed to go counter to what is expected or desired; contrary.
- prickly β full of or armed with prickles.
- saturnine β sluggish in temperament; gloomy; taciturn.
- snappish β apt to snap or bite, as a dog.
- sour β having an acid taste, resembling that of vinegar, lemon juice, etc.; tart.
- sulky β marked by or given to sulking; sullen.
- sullen β showing irritation or ill humor by a gloomy silence or reserve.
- surly β churlishly rude or bad-tempered: a surly waiter. Synonyms: sullen, uncivil, brusque, irascible, splenetic, choleric, cross; grumpy, grouchy, crabby.
- tart β sharp to the taste; sour or acid: Tart apples are best for pie. Synonyms: astringent, acrid, piquant. Antonyms: sweet, sugary, bland, mellow.
- testy β irritably impatient; touchy.
- tough β strong and durable; not easily broken or cut.
- trying β extremely annoying, difficult, or the like; straining one's patience and goodwill to the limit: a trying day; a trying experience.
- unsociable β not sociable; having, showing, or marked by a disinclination to friendly social relations; withdrawn.
- crabbed β surly; irritable; perverse
- ill humor β a disagreeable or surly mood.
- splenetic β of the spleen; splenic.
adjective chuffy
- irritable β easily irritated or annoyed; readily excited to impatience or anger.