All irritable synonyms
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I i adj irritable
- bad-tempered β Someone who is bad-tempered is not very cheerful and gets angry easily.
- contentious β A contentious issue causes a lot of disagreement or arguments.
- testy β irritably impatient; touchy.
- resentful β full of or marked by resentment.
- fractious β refractory or unruly: a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness.
- surly β churlishly rude or bad-tempered: a surly waiter. Synonyms: sullen, uncivil, brusque, irascible, splenetic, choleric, cross; grumpy, grouchy, crabby.
- annoyed β If you are annoyed, you are fairly angry about something.
- prickly β full of or armed with prickles.
- cantankerous β Someone who is cantankerous is always finding things to argue or complain about.
- carping β tending to make petty complaints; fault-finding
- choleric β A choleric person gets angry very easily. You can also use choleric to describe a person who is very angry.
- complaining β to express dissatisfaction, pain, uneasiness, censure, resentment, or grief; find fault: He complained constantly about the noise in the corridor.
- 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.
- disputatious β fond of or given to disputation; argumentative; contentious: disputatious litigants.
- dissatisfied β not satisfied or pleased; discontented.
- dyspeptic β pertaining to, subject to, or suffering from dyspepsia.
- fiery β consisting of, attended with, characterized by, or containing fire: a volcano's fiery discharge.
- fretful β disposed or quick to fret; irritable or peevish.
- gloomy β dark or dim; deeply shaded: gloomy skies.
- grouchy β sullenly discontented; sulky; morose; ill-tempered.
- grumbling β to murmur or mutter in discontent; complain sullenly.
- hasty β moving or acting with haste; speedy; quick; hurried.
- hot β having or giving off heat; having a high temperature: a hot fire; hot coffee.
- huffy β easily offended; touchy.
- hypercritical β excessively or meticulously critical; overcritical.
- irascible β easily provoked to anger; very irritable: an irascible old man.
- moody β given to gloomy, depressed, or sullen moods; ill-humored.
- 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.
- plaintive β expressing sorrow or melancholy; mournful: a plaintive melody.
- querulous β full of complaints; complaining.
- quick-tempered β easily angered.
- sensitive β endowed with sensation; having perception through the senses.
- snappy β Snappy Video Snapshot
- tense β in a state of mental or nervous strain; high-strung; taut: a tense person.
- touchy β apt to take offense on slight provocation; irritable: He is very touchy when he's sick.
- crabbed β surly; irritable; perverse
- bearish β On the stock market, if there is a bearish mood, prices are expected to fall. Compare bullish.
- brooding β Brooding is used to describe an atmosphere or feeling that makes you feel anxious or slightly afraid.
- fretting β to feel or express worry, annoyance, discontent, or the like: Fretting about the lost ring isn't going to help.
- ill humor β a disagreeable or surly mood.
- out of humor β a comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement: the humor of a situation.
- oversensitive β excessively or unduly sensitive.
adjective irritable
- short-tempered β having a quick, hasty temper; irascible.
- ill-tempered β bad or irritable disposition.
- tetchy β irritable; touchy.
- crabby β Someone who is crabby is bad-tempered and unpleasant to people.
- exasperated β Simple past tense and past participle of exasperate.