All tetchy synonyms
tetch·y
T t adjective tetchy
- 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.
- waspish — Waspy.
- curmudgeonly — If you describe someone as curmudgeonly, you do not like them because they are mean or bad-tempered.
- waspy — Sometimes Disparaging and Offensive. of, relating to, or characteristic of WASPs: a Waspy country club.
- irritable — easily irritated or annoyed; readily excited to impatience or anger.
- crotchety — A crotchety person is bad-tempered and easily irritated.
- impatient — not patient; not accepting delay, opposition, pain, etc., with calm or patience.
- liverish — resembling liver, especially in color.
- crabbed — surly; irritable; perverse
- crabby — Someone who is crabby is bad-tempered and unpleasant to people.
- crusty — Crusty bread has a hard, crisp outside.
- edgy — nervously irritable; impatient and anxious.
adj tetchy
- cranky — If you describe ideas or ways of behaving as cranky, you disapprove of them because you think they are strange.
- bearish — On the stock market, if there is a bearish mood, prices are expected to fall. Compare bullish.
- grousing — to grumble; complain: I've never met anyone who grouses so much about his work.