Petulant

//ˈpɛt͡ʃʊlənt//

Synonyms for "petulant" (226 found)

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Closest matches (46)

crabby grouchy huffy irritable snappish airy fairy arbitrary bad tempered bad-tempered beefing bellyaching bilious bitching cantankerous capricious captious catty choleric complaining complaintful

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crabbed crabbing cranky croaking

Adjective(21 words)

atrabilious audacious bad-tempered bilious bitchy bold bold as brass bold-faced brainish brassy brazen brazen-faced cantankerous carnaptious cheeky choleric chutzpadik cocket crabbit crabby

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cranky

Adjective(1 words)

cranky

Strong matches (67)

cross crotchety disagreeable disappointed discontented disgruntled displeased dissatisfied envious fanciful fantasied fantastic fantastical faultfinding flaky fractious freakish fretful frolicsome griping

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grousing growling gruff grumbling grumpy harebrained harsh hasty howling huff huffish humorsome ill tempered ill-humored ill-tempered impatient

Adjective(30 words)

crotchety cute dicacious dyspeptic edgy facey familiar fantoddish fiery flip flippant forward fractious fresh fretful get wise grotchy grouchy grumpy hissy

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hot-livered hot-tempered hotheaded huffy humpy ill-natured ill-tempered impertinent impudent insolent

Adjective(1 words)

fractious

Related words (113)

irascible jeremianic kinky lamentive maggoty malcontent malcontented moanful moody motiveless mournful murmuring muttering nagging naggy nettlesome notional out of humor peevish perverse

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Adjective(37 words)

irascible irreverent irritable liverish malapert ornery (chiefly us)}out of sorts peevish pert pettish prickly querulous quick-tempered raspy ratty sassy saucy short-tempered snappish snappy

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snippety snippish snippy snitchy splenetic stressy surly testy tetchy tetty thin-skinned thorny touchy twitchy umbrageous volatile waspish

Adjective(9 words)

irritable nettlesome peckish peevish pettish scratchy techy testy tetchy

Related word relations

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5 relation types

Antonyms

1 entries

easygoing

Synonyms

8 entries

bad tempered crabby grouchy huffy ill tempered irritable nettlesome snappish

derived

2 entries

petulantly unpetulant

related to

2 entries

childish irritable

similar

1 entries

ill-natured

Translations

55 translations across 25 languages.

Armenian

2 entries

խռովկան adj (easily irritated or annoyed)
նեղացկոտ adj (easily irritated or annoyed)

Bulgarian

2 entries

раздразнителен adj (easily irritated or annoyed)
сприхав adj (easily irritated or annoyed)

Chinese Mandarin

1 entries

易怒 adj (easily irritated or annoyed)

Czech

1 entries

popudlivý adj (easily irritated or annoyed)

Dutch

3 entries

luimig adj (easily irritated or annoyed)
prikkelbaar adj (easily irritated or annoyed)
zenuwachtig adj (easily irritated or annoyed)

Esperanto

1 entries

petola adj (easily irritated or annoyed)

Faroese

1 entries

bitutur adj (easily irritated or annoyed)

Finnish

1 entries

kiukutteleva adj (easily irritated or annoyed)

French

2 entries

irascible adj (easily irritated or annoyed)
pétulant adj (easily irritated or annoyed)

Galician

4 entries

bamborriñeiro adj (easily irritated or annoyed)
botado adj (easily irritated or annoyed)
chufón adj (easily irritated or annoyed)
farfallán adj (easily irritated or annoyed)

German

4 entries

bockig adj (easily irritated or annoyed)
borstig adj (easily irritated or annoyed)
gereizt adj (easily irritated or annoyed)
launenhaft adj (easily irritated or annoyed)

Haitian Creole

1 entries

agresif adj (easily irritated or annoyed)

Hungarian

3 entries

ingerlékeny adj (easily irritated or annoyed)
nyűgös adj (easily irritated or annoyed)
sértődékeny adj (easily irritated or annoyed)

Italian

1 entries

petulante adj (easily irritated or annoyed)

Latin

1 entries

petulans adj (easily irritated or annoyed)

Macedonian

2 entries

разгневен adj (easily irritated or annoyed)
раздразлив adj (easily irritated or annoyed)

Māori

2 entries

ngutu hāwere adj (easily irritated or annoyed)
whanewhane adj (easily irritated or annoyed)

Norwegian Bokmål

4 entries

amper adj (easily irritated or annoyed)
hårsår adj (easily irritated or annoyed)
lunefull adj (easily irritated or annoyed)
pirrelig adj (easily irritated or annoyed)

Norwegian Nynorsk

4 entries

amper adj (easily irritated or annoyed)
hårsår adj (easily irritated or annoyed)
lunefull adj (easily irritated or annoyed)
pirrelig adj (easily irritated or annoyed)

Ottoman Turkish

2 entries

تتیز adj (easily irritated or annoyed)
خرچین adj (easily irritated or annoyed)

Plautdietsch

1 entries

prunsch adj (easily irritated or annoyed)

Polish

1 entries

drażliwy adj (easily irritated or annoyed)

Russian

2 entries

вздорный adj (easily irritated or annoyed)
раздражи́тельный adj (easily irritated or annoyed)

Slovak

1 entries

nevrlý adj (easily irritated or annoyed)

Spanish

3 entries

mostrar petulancia adj (easily irritated or annoyed)
petulante adj (easily irritated or annoyed)
ponerse tonto adj (easily irritated or annoyed)

Sample sentences

11 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Don't get all petulant and whiny.

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Stop acting like a petulant child every time you don't get your way.

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The obedient children suddenly turned into petulant teenagers.

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What a petulant child!

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