All snappish synonyms
snap·pish
S s adjective snappish
- acetose — Sour like vinegar; acetous.
- waspish — Waspy.
- hotblooded — Spirited, rash, reckless.
- crisp — Food that is crisp is pleasantly hard, or has a pleasantly hard surface.
- mumpish — Sullen or sulky.
- wrecker — a person or thing that wrecks.
- abrupt — An abrupt change or action is very sudden, often in a way which is unpleasant.
- grouchy — sullenly discontented; sulky; morose; ill-tempered.
- complaining — to express dissatisfaction, pain, uneasiness, censure, resentment, or grief; find fault: He complained constantly about the noise in the corridor.
- whiny — complaining; fretful; cranky: The baby is whiny because he missed his nap.
adj snappish
- down in the dumps — If you are down in the dumps, you are feeling very depressed and miserable.
- curt — If you describe someone as curt, you mean that they speak or reply in a brief and rather rude way.
- chuffy — boorish and surly
- crabbed — surly; irritable; perverse
- crabby — Someone who is crabby is bad-tempered and unpleasant to people.
- crusty — Crusty bread has a hard, crisp outside.
- fretful — disposed or quick to fret; irritable or peevish.
- irascible — easily provoked to anger; very irritable: an irascible old man.
- nervous — highly excitable; unnaturally or acutely uneasy or apprehensive: to become nervous under stress.
- bearish — On the stock market, if there is a bearish mood, prices are expected to fall. Compare bullish.
- cranky — If you describe ideas or ways of behaving as cranky, you disapprove of them because you think they are strange.
- huffish — peevish; irritable.
- huffy — easily offended; touchy.
- cantankerous — Someone who is cantankerous is always finding things to argue or complain about.
- fractious — refractory or unruly: a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness.
- morose — gloomily or sullenly ill-humored, as a person or mood.
adverb snappish
- abruptly — sudden or unexpected: an abrupt departure.