All grouchy synonyms
grouch·y
G g adj grouchy
- crusty — Crusty bread has a hard, crisp outside.
- cantankerous — Someone who is cantankerous is always finding things to argue or complain about.
- testy — irritably impatient; touchy.
- surly — churlishly rude or bad-tempered: a surly waiter. Synonyms: sullen, uncivil, brusque, irascible, splenetic, choleric, cross; grumpy, grouchy, crabby.
- grumpy — surly or ill-tempered; discontentedly or sullenly irritable; grouchy.
- irascible — easily provoked to anger; very irritable: an irascible old man.
- cross — 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.
- discontented — not content; dissatisfied; discontented.
- grumbling — to murmur or mutter in discontent; complain sullenly.
- ill-tempered — bad or irritable disposition.
- peevish — cross, querulous, or fretful, as from vexation or discontent: a peevish youngster.
- querulous — full of complaints; complaining.
- snappy — Snappy Video Snapshot
- sulky — marked by or given to sulking; sullen.
adjective grouchy
- complaining — to express dissatisfaction, pain, uneasiness, censure, resentment, or grief; find fault: He complained constantly about the noise in the corridor.
- crabby — Someone who is crabby is bad-tempered and unpleasant to people.
- irritable — easily irritated or annoyed; readily excited to impatience or anger.
- cranky — If you describe ideas or ways of behaving as cranky, you disapprove of them because you think they are strange.
- snappish — apt to snap or bite, as a dog.
- bad-tempered — Someone who is bad-tempered is not very cheerful and gets angry easily.