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  • 41irritable — irritableness, n. irritably, adv. /ir i teuh beuhl/, adj. 1. easily irritated or annoyed; readily excited to impatience or anger. 2. Physiol., Biol. displaying irritability. 3. Pathol. susceptible to physical irritation. 4. Med. abnormally… …

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  • 42irritable — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. fretful, petulant, peevish, touchy, sensitive. See irascibility. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. sensitive, irascible, touchy, testy, ill tempered, huffy, peevish, petulant, fractious, tense, high… …

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  • 43peevish — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. irascible, fretful, cranky, cross, irritable, touchy. See irascibility. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Having a sour disposition] Syn. perverse, pertinacious, morose; see obstinate . 2. [Inclined to… …

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  • 44petulant — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. fretful, irritable, complaining, peevish. See irascibility. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. grouchy, testy, cross; see irritable . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) (VOCABULARY WORD) a. [PECH uh lunt]… …

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  • 45crabby — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. peevish, querulous, grumpy; see complaining , irritable . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. *bitchy, surly, irritable, *cranky, snappish, cross, petulant, grouchy, testy, moody, *touchy, ANT.: sweet, pleasant, good… …

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  • 46irascible — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. peevish, cranky, irritable; see angry , irritable . See Synonym Study at irritable . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) (VOCABULARY WORD) a. [i RAS uh bul] quick tempered or easily angered. Mike was irascible; we walked on… …

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  • 47yap — [c]/jæp / (say yap) verb (yapped, yapping) –verb (i) 1. to yelp; bark snappishly. 2. Colloquial to talk snappishly, noisily, or foolishly. –verb (t) 3. to utter by yapping. –noun 4. a yelp: a snappish bark. 5. Colloquial snappish, noisy, or… …

  • 48snappishly — adverb in an ill natured and snappish manner Don t talk to me now, she said snappishly • Derived from adjective: ↑snappish …

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  • 49annoying galling chafing irritating nettlesome pesky pestiferous pestilent plaguy plaguey teasing vexatious vexing — Ill natured Ill na tured, a. 1. Of habitual bad temper; having an unpleasant disposition; surly; disagreeable; cross; peevish; fractious; crabbed; of people; as, an ill natured person; an ill natured disagreeable old man. Opposite of {good… …

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  • 50argumentative contentious disputatious disputative litigious — Ill natured Ill na tured, a. 1. Of habitual bad temper; having an unpleasant disposition; surly; disagreeable; cross; peevish; fractious; crabbed; of people; as, an ill natured person; an ill natured disagreeable old man. Opposite of {good… …

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