Petulant - English meaning

adjective

Becoming annoyed or angry very easily

adjective

Tending to find fault or raise petty objections.

Usage examples:

A captious teacher

adjective

Often expressing criticisms about matters that are not important

noun

A mark, object, or figure formed by two short intersecting lines or pieces (+ or ×).

Usage examples:

Place a cross against the preferred choice

verb

Go or extend across or to the other side of (an area, stretch of water, etc.).

Usage examples:

She has crossed the atlantic twice

adjective

Annoyed.

Usage examples:

He seemed to be very cross about something

adjective

Irritable.

Usage examples:

He was tired and crotchety

adjective

Easily annoyed or angered

Usage examples:

After ten hours in the car, we were all getting crotchety.

adjective

(typically of children) irritable and quarrelsome.

Usage examples:

They fight and squabble like fractious children

adjective

Tending to argue, fight, or complain, and hard to control

Usage examples:

Fractious relationships, the fractious nature of politics

adjective

Easily annoyed

Usage examples:

An increasingly ill-tempered match saw three players sent off before half-time.

adjective

Having or showing a tendency to be quickly irritated or provoked.

Usage examples:

An impatient motorist blaring his horn

adjective

Not willing to wait for something to happen and becoming annoyed at delays

Usage examples:

Don’t be impatient, you’ll get your turn., she grew impatient with the others., [ + to infinitive ]…

adjective

Having or showing a tendency to be easily angered.

Usage examples:

An irascible and difficult man

adjective

Quickly aroused to anger

adjective

(of a person) easily made angry

Usage examples:

A cranky, irascible artist

adjective

Having or showing a tendency to be easily annoyed.

Usage examples:

She was tired and irritable

adjective

(of a person) given to unpredictable changes of mood, especially sudden bouts of gloominess or sullenness.

Usage examples:

His moody adolescent brother

adjective

(of a person) often sad, or changing from being happy to sad, often for no clear reason

adjective

Having or showing an irritable disposition.

Usage examples:

A thin peevish voice

adjective

(of a person or their behaviour) childishly bad-tempered and petulant.

Usage examples:

He comes across in his journal entries as spoiled and pettish

adjective

Complaining in a rather petulant or whining manner.

Usage examples:

She became querulous and demanding

adjective

(of a dog) irritable and inclined to bite.

Usage examples:

She was often snappish with the children

adjective

Easily annoyed and often speaking in an angry way

Usage examples:

He's very snappish when he arrives at work in the morning.

adjective

Morose, bad-tempered, and resentful; refusing to be cooperative or cheerful.

Usage examples:

Disappointment was making her sulky

noun

A light two-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle for one person, used chiefly in trotting races.

Usage examples:

The prompters, which are not permitted to put their head in front of the horse in the time trial, w…

adjective

Refusing to smile or be pleasant to people, usually because you are angry about something

Usage examples:

She brought along a couple of sulky kids who didn't say a word the whole time.

adjective

Easily irritated; impatient and somewhat bad-tempered.

Usage examples:

His testy, disapproving father

adjective

Lacking patience and feeling upset

Usage examples:

My wife gets testy if we don’t have dessert.

adjective

Irritable and bad-tempered.

Usage examples:

She had always been tetchy and impatient with him

adjective

Easily made angry, unhappy, or upset

Usage examples:

Be careful what you say to anna - she's been a little tetchy lately.

adjective

Easily upset or offended; oversensitive.

Usage examples:

She's a little touchy about her age

adjective

Easily angered or made unhappy

Usage examples:

She’s touchy about people borrowing her books., politics can be a very touchy subject in some famil…

adjective

Readily expressing anger or irritation.

Usage examples:

He had a waspish tongue

adjective

Likely to make sharp, slightly cruel remarks; having a slightly angry and unpleasant manner

Usage examples:

She had a waspish tongue which could hurt.