'Peevish' definitions:
Definition of 'peevish'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Peevish'
From: GCIDE
- Peevish \Pee"vish\, a. [OE. pevische; of uncertain origin, perh. from a word imitative of the noise made by fretful children + -ish.]
- 1. Habitually fretful; easily vexed or fretted; hard to please; apt to complain; querulous; petulant. "Her peevish babe." --Wordsworth. [1913 Webster]
- She is peevish, sullen, froward. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Expressing fretfulness and discontent, or unjustifiable dissatisfaction; as, a peevish answer. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Silly; childish; trifling. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- To send such peevish tokens to a king. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Querulous; petulant; cross; ill-tempered; testy; captious; discontented. See Fretful. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'peevish'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- acrimonious,
- bad-tempered,
- beefing,
- bellyaching,
- bilious,
- bitching,
- cantankerous,
- captious,
- carping,
- catty,
- caviling,
- cavilling,
- churlish,
- complaining,
- complaintful,
- crabbed,
- crabbing,
- crabby,
- cranky,
- critical,
- croaking,
- cross,
- crotchety,
- crusty,
- disappointed,
- discontented,
- disgruntled,
- displeased,
- dissatisfied,
- envious,
- faultfinding,
- fractious,
- fretful,
- griping,
- grouchy,
- grousing,
- growling,
- grumbling,
- grumpish,
- grumpy,
- howling,
- huffy,
- ill-humored,
- ill-natured,
- ill-tempered,
- irritable,
- Jeremianic,
- lamentive,
- malcontent,
- malcontented,
- moanful,
- mournful,
- murmuring,
- muttering,
- nagging,
- naggy,
- out of humor,
- pettish,
- petulant,
- plaintive,
- plangent,
- puling,
- querulant,
- querulous,
- rebellious,
- resentful,
- restive,
- restless,
- short-tempered,
- shrewish,
- snappish,
- sorrowful,
- splenetic,
- sulky,
- testy,
- tetchy,
- touchy,
- ululant,
- unaccepting,
- unaccommodating,
- uneasy,
- unfulfilled,
- ungratified,
- unhappy,
- unsatisfied,
- vixenish,
- vixenly,
- wailful,
- waspish,
- whimpering,
- whining,
- whiny