Synonyms for Grouchy | WordToolSet

Synonyms for "grouchy" (73 found)

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Closest matches (15)

Adjective(7 words)

grumpy bad-tempered cantankerous crabbed crabbier crabby cranky

beefing bellyaching bitching complaining complaintful crabbing crabby cranky

Strong matches (22)

Related words (36)

Adjective(5 words)

ill-tempered irritable peevish surly testy

malcontent malcontented murmuring mutteringout of humorpeevish perverse petulant quarrelsome querulant querulous rebellious resentful restive restless short-tempered snappish sour sulky temperamental

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touchy unaccepting unaccommodating uneasy unfulfilled ungoverned ungratified unhappy unsatisfied whiny

Adjective(1 words)

sullen

Related word relations

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6 relation types

More general

4 entries

descriptive termmood descriptorpersonality descriptortone descriptor

More specific

7 entries

cantankerous cranky gruff grumpy peevish surly testy

Collocations

6 entries

grouchy colleaguegrouchy dispositiongrouchy moodgrouchy remarkgrouchy temperamentgrouchy tone

Inflections

2 entries

grouchier grouchiest

Derivations

2 entries

grouchily grouchiness

similar

1 entries

ill-natured

Sample sentences

14 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Monday mornings make me really grouchy.

Source: tatoeba (567791)

Tom looked grouchy, so Mary didn't approach him.

Source: tatoeba (1028336)

Tom got up on the wrong side of the bed and has been grouchy all day.

Source: tatoeba (1040634)

Why is Tom so grouchy today?

Source: tatoeba (1092104)

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Grouchy