'Petulant' definitions:
Definition of 'petulant'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Petulant'
From: GCIDE
- Petulant \Pet"u*lant\, a. [L. petulans, -antis, prop., making slight attacks upon, from a lost dim. of petere to fall upon, to attack: cf. F. p['e]tulant. See Petition.]
- 1. Forward; pert; insolent; wanton. [Obs.] --Burton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Capriciously fretful; characterized by ill-natured freakishness; irritable. "Petulant moods." --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Irritable; ill-humored; peevish; cross; fretful; querulous. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'petulant'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- arbitrary,
- bad-tempered,
- beefing,
- bellyaching,
- bilious,
- bitching,
- cantankerous,
- capricious,
- captious,
- catty,
- choleric,
- complaining,
- complaintful,
- crabbed,
- crabbing,
- crabby,
- cranky,
- croaking,
- cross,
- crotchety,
- disappointed,
- discontented,
- disgruntled,
- displeased,
- dissatisfied,
- envious,
- fanciful,
- fantasied,
- fantastic,
- faultfinding,
- flaky,
- fractious,
- freakish,
- fretful,
- griping,
- grouchy,
- grousing,
- growling,
- grumbling,
- grumpy,
- harebrained,
- howling,
- huffish,
- huffy,
- humorsome,
- ill-humored,
- ill-tempered,
- impatient,
- irascible,
- irritable,
- Jeremianic,
- kinky,
- lamentive,
- maggoty,
- malcontent,
- malcontented,
- moanful,
- moody,
- motiveless,
- mournful,
- murmuring,
- muttering,
- nagging,
- naggy,
- notional,
- out of humor,
- peevish,
- perverse,
- pettish,
- plaintive,
- plangent,
- puling,
- querulant,
- querulous,
- quirky,
- rebellious,
- resentful,
- restive,
- restless,
- shrewish,
- snappish,
- sorrowful,
- sour,
- splenetic,
- sulky,
- temperamental,
- testy,
- ululant,
- unaccepting,
- unaccommodating,
- uneasy,
- unfulfilled,
- ungratified,
- unhappy,
- unreasonable,
- unrestrained,
- unsatisfied,
- vagarious,
- vagrant,
- vixenish,
- vixenly,
- wailful,
- wanton,
- waspish,
- wayward,
- whimpering,
- whimsical,
- whining,
- whiny