All waspy synonyms

adjective waspy

• waspish — Waspy.
• irritable — easily irritated or annoyed; readily excited to impatience or anger.
• touchy — apt to take offense on slight provocation; irritable: He is very touchy when he's sick.
• irascible — easily provoked to anger; very irritable: an irascible old man.
• cantankerous — Someone who is cantankerous is always finding things to argue or complain about.
• peevish — cross, querulous, or fretful, as from vexation or discontent: a peevish youngster.
• tetchy — irritable; touchy.
• crusty — Crusty bread has a hard, crisp outside.
• grouchy — sullenly discontented; sulky; morose; ill-tempered.
• grumpy — surly or ill-tempered; discontentedly or sullenly irritable; grouchy.
• ornery — ugly and unpleasant in disposition or temper: No one can get along with my ornery cousin.
• awkward — An awkward situation is embarrassing and difficult to deal with.
• bad-tempered — Someone who is bad-tempered is not very cheerful and gets angry easily.
• bearish — On the stock market, if there is a bearish mood, prices are expected to fall. Compare bullish.
• contrary — Ideas, attitudes, or reactions that are contrary to each other are completely different from each other.
• crabby — Someone who is crabby is bad-tempered and unpleasant to people.
• cranky — If you describe ideas or ways of behaving as cranky, you disapprove of them because you think they are strange.
• 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.
• cross-grained — (of timber) having the fibres arranged irregularly or in a direction that deviates from the axis of the piece
• curmudgeonly — If you describe someone as curmudgeonly, you do not like them because they are mean or bad-tempered.
• difficult — not easily or readily done; requiring much labor, skill, or planning to be performed successfully; hard: a difficult job.
• disagreeable — contrary to one's taste or liking; unpleasant; offensive; repugnant.
• eccentric — deviating from the recognized or customary character, practice, etc.; irregular; erratic; peculiar; odd: eccentric conduct; an eccentric person.
• fractious — refractory or unruly: a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness.
• obstinate — firmly or stubbornly adhering to one's purpose, opinion, etc.; not yielding to argument, persuasion, or entreaty.
• obstreperous — resisting control or restraint in a difficult manner; unruly.
• odd — differing in nature from what is ordinary, usual, or expected: an odd choice.
• queer — strange or odd from a conventional viewpoint; unusually different; singular: a queer notion of justice.
• surly — churlishly rude or bad-tempered: a surly waiter. Synonyms: sullen, uncivil, brusque, irascible, splenetic, choleric, cross; grumpy, grouchy, crabby.
• testy — irritably impatient; touchy.
• unusual — not usual, common, or ordinary; uncommon in amount or degree; exceptional: an unusual sound; an unusual hobby; an unusual response.
• vinegary — of the nature of or resembling vinegar; sour; acid: a vinegary taste.
• acrimonious — Acrimonious words or quarrels are bitter and angry.
• angry — When you are angry, you feel strong dislike or impatience about something.
• captious — apt to make trivial criticisms; fault-finding; carping
• carping — tending to make petty complaints; fault-finding
• caviling — Present participle of cavil.
• childish — Childish means relating to or typical of a child.
• churlish — Someone who is churlish is unfriendly, bad-tempered, or impolite.
• complaining — to express dissatisfaction, pain, uneasiness, censure, resentment, or grief; find fault: He complained constantly about the noise in the corridor.
• crabbed — surly; irritable; perverse
• critical — If a person is critical or in a critical condition in hospital, they are seriously ill.
• crotchety — A crotchety person is bad-tempered and easily irritated.
• cussed — obstinate
• fault-finding — the act of pointing out faults, especially faults of a petty nature; carping.
• fretful — disposed or quick to fret; irritable or peevish.
• fretting — to feel or express worry, annoyance, discontent, or the like: Fretting about the lost ring isn't going to help.
• grousing — to grumble; complain: I've never met anyone who grouses so much about his work.
• growling — Producing a growl.
• huffy — easily offended; touchy.