peevish
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adjective- 1.
Constantly complaining, especially in a childish way due to insignificant matters; fretful, whiny.
Due to the long wait, there were several peevish patients in the doctor’s waiting room.
- 2.
Quick to become bad-tempered or cross, especially due to insignificant matters; irritable, pettish, petulant.
I would rather figure things out on my own than ask that peevish librarian for help.
Đồng nghĩa: querulous, atrabilious, bad-tempered, bilious, bitchy, brainish, cantankerous, carnaptious, choleric, crabbit, crabby, cranky, crotchety, dyspeptic, edgy, fantoddish, fiery, fractious, fretful, grumpy, grotchy, grouchy, hissy, hot-livered, hot-tempered, hotheaded, huffy, humpy, ill-natured, ill-tempered, irascible, irritable, liverish, out of sorts, ornery (chiefly US)}, peevish, pettish, petulant, prickly, quick-tempered, querulous, raspy, ratty, short-tempered, snappish, snappy, snippety, snippish, snippy, snitchy, splenetic, stressy, surly, temperamental, testy, tetchy, tetty, thin-skinned, thorny, touchy, twitchy, umbrageous, volatile, waspish
- 3.
(Canada, Northern England, figuratively)(Canada, Northern England, figurative) Of weather: blustery, windy; also, of wind: cold and strong; bitter, sharp.
- 4.
(obsolete)Coy, modest.
- 5.
(obsolete)Foolish, silly.
- 6.
(obsolete)Harmful, injurious; also, mischievous; or malicious, spiteful.
Đồng nghĩa: harmful, damaging, deleterious, detrimental, hurtful, inimical, injurious, mischievous, nocent, nocuous, noxious, noisome, prejudicial, scathand, scathel, sullen, venom
- 7.
(obsolete)Impulsive and unpredictable; capricious, fickle.
- 8.
(obsolete)Obstinately in the wrong; perverse, stubborn.
Đồng nghĩa: adamant, ardent, grim, bent on, bloody-minded, bullheaded, certain, chronic, confirmed, determined, diehard, dogged, hard-hearted, hard-nosed, hardheaded, headstrong, immovable, incalcitrant, inflexible, irrefragable, insistent, intractable, intransigent, intrepid, inveterate, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, obstreperous, peevish, peremptory, persistent, pertinacious, pigheaded, recalcitrant, refractory, resolute, resolved, rigid, self-willed, stalwart, staunch, steadfast, steady, stubborn, stubborn as a mule, sullen, tenacious, terminal, thran, thwart, tough, truculent, unbending, uncompromising, unyielding, vehement, wilful, willful
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(obsolete)Out of one's mind; mad.
- 10.
(obsolete)Of a thing: evoking a feeling of distaste, horror, etc.
- 11.
(Northern England, obsolete)Clever, skilful.
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adverb- 1.
(not comparable, obsolete)Synonym of peevishly (“in a peevish manner: whiningly; irritably, petulantly; etc.”).
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ine-pro The adjective is derived from Late Middle English pievish, peuysche, pevish, pevysh (capricious, wilful; perverse, wayward); further etymology, possibly from one of the following: