Why does he look grumpy?
Source: tatoeba (487778)
Grumpy
//ˈɡɹʌmpi//
Synonyms for "grumpy" (38 found)
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Closest matches (8)
Adjective(4 words)
Adjective(2 words)
Strong matches (11)
Related words (19)
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Synonyms
6 entriesderived
6 entriesderived from
1 entriesrelated to
2 entriessimilar
2 entriesTranslations
70 translations across 36 languages.
Ainu
1 entries- ルㇱカ adj (dissatisfied and irritable)
Asturian
2 entries- repunante adj (dissatisfied and irritable)
- rungón adj (dissatisfied and irritable)
Bulgarian
2 entries- нацупен adj (dissatisfied and irritable)
- сръдлив adj (dissatisfied and irritable)
Catalan
2 entries- remugador adj (dissatisfied and irritable)
- rondinaire adj (dissatisfied and irritable)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 性情乖戾的 adj (dissatisfied and irritable)
Czech
2 entries- mrzutý adj (dissatisfied and irritable)
- nevrlý adj (dissatisfied and irritable)
Dutch
2 entries- korzelig adj (dissatisfied and irritable)
- kribbig adj (dissatisfied and irritable)
Esperanto
2 entries- grumblema adj (dissatisfied and irritable)
- malafabla adj (dissatisfied and irritable)
Finnish
4 entries- hapan adj (dissatisfied and irritable)
- yrmeä adj (dissatisfied and irritable)
- äreä adj (dissatisfied and irritable)
- ärtyisä adj (dissatisfied and irritable)
French
1 entries- grognon adj (dissatisfied and irritable)
Galician
3 entries- fungón adj (dissatisfied and irritable)
- rosmón adj (dissatisfied and irritable)
- roñón adj (dissatisfied and irritable)
German
1 entries- mürrisch adj (dissatisfied and irritable)
Greek
1 entries- κακότροπος adj (dissatisfied and irritable)
Hungarian
1 entries- mogorva adj (dissatisfied and irritable)
Icelandic
1 entries- úrillur adj (dissatisfied and irritable)
Indonesian
1 entries- pemarah adj (dissatisfied and irritable)
Irish
2 entries- cantalach adj (dissatisfied and irritable)
- mosach adj (dissatisfied and irritable)
Italian
1 entries- scontroso adj (dissatisfied and irritable)
Japanese
2 entries- 不機嫌な adj (dissatisfied and irritable)
- 気難しい adj (dissatisfied and irritable)
Korean
1 entries- 까다로운 adj (dissatisfied and irritable)
Lower Sorbian
2 entries- gnerlaty adj (dissatisfied and irritable)
- warcaty adj (dissatisfied and irritable)
Malay
1 entries- moyok adj (dissatisfied and irritable)
Māori
4 entries- kiriweti adj (dissatisfied and irritable)
- komekome adj (dissatisfied and irritable)
- ngutu komekome adj (dissatisfied and irritable)
- ngākau kawa adj (dissatisfied and irritable)
Norwegian
1 entries- gretten adj (dissatisfied and irritable)
Plautdietsch
2 entries- brumlich adj (dissatisfied and irritable)
- brumsch adj (dissatisfied and irritable)
Polish
1 entries- marudny adj (dissatisfied and irritable)
Portuguese
4 entries- birrento adj (dissatisfied and irritable)
- emburrado adj (dissatisfied and irritable)
- rabugento adj (dissatisfied and irritable)
- ranzinza adj (dissatisfied and irritable)
Russian
3 entries- ворчли́вый adj (dissatisfied and irritable)
- раздражи́тельный adj (dissatisfied and irritable)
- сварли́вый adj (dissatisfied and irritable)
Scottish Gaelic
3 entries- crosta adj (dissatisfied and irritable)
- greannach adj (dissatisfied and irritable)
- gruamach adj (dissatisfied and irritable)
Spanish
4 entries- gruñón adj (dissatisfied and irritable)
- malhumorado adj (dissatisfied and irritable)
- moshudo adj (dissatisfied and irritable)
- refunfuñón adj (dissatisfied and irritable)
Swedish
2 entries- butter adj (dissatisfied and irritable)
- tjurig adj (dissatisfied and irritable)
Tagalog
1 entries- bugnutin adj (dissatisfied and irritable)
Turkish
2 entries- huysuz adj (dissatisfied and irritable)
- ters adj (dissatisfied and irritable)
Welsh
1 entries- blin adj (dissatisfied and irritable)
West-Frisian
1 entries- kribbich adj (dissatisfied and irritable)
Zazaki
3 entries- eqs adj (dissatisfied and irritable)
- eqs adj (dissatisfied and irritable)
- rıkın (diq) adj (dissatisfied and irritable)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
Why does Tom look so grumpy today?
Source: tatoeba (1023742)
Tom woke up feeling grumpy.
Source: tatoeba (1092253)
Jane has been quiet and grumpy for the past few days.
Source: tatoeba (1349581)
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