She spoke in a querulous voice.
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Querulous
//ˈkwɛɹ(j)ələs//
Synonyms for "querulous" (187 found)
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Closest matches (38)
Strong matches (56)
Adjective(25 words)
darkdejecteddepresseddesolatedespondentdisconsolatedishearteneddismaldolefuldolesomedowndown in the dumpsdown in the mouthdowncastdownhearteddownsomedullelegiacforlorngloomy
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Adjective(1 words)
Related words (93)
Adjective(36 words)
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Synonyms
12 entriesRelated terms
6 entriesderived
3 entriesrelated to
5 entriessimilar
3 entriesTranslations
32 translations across 18 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- оплакващ се adj (often complaining)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 愛嘮叨 /爱唠叨 adj (often complaining)
Czech
2 entries- fňukavý adj (often complaining)
- hašteřivý adj (often complaining)
Faroese
2 entries- grenjutur adj (often complaining)
- knarrutur adj (often complaining)
Finnish
1 entries- ruikuttava adj (often complaining)
Galician
1 entries- queixoso adj (often complaining)
German
2 entries- nörglerisch adj (often complaining)
- quengelig adj (often complaining)
Greek
1 entries- μεμψίμοιρος adj (often complaining)
Italian
4 entries- lamentoso adj (often complaining)
- petulante adj (often complaining)
- piagnucoloso adj (often complaining)
- querulo adj (often complaining)
Japanese
1 entries- 短気 adj (often complaining)
Latin
1 entries- querulus adj (often complaining)
Polish
2 entries- marudny adj (often complaining)
- zrzędliwy adj (often complaining)
Portuguese
3 entries- queixoso adj (often complaining)
- quérulo adj (often complaining)
- reclamão adj (often complaining)
Russian
1 entries- ворчливый adj (often complaining)
Scots
2 entries- fashious adj (often complaining)
- girnie adj (often complaining)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- gearanach adj (often complaining)
Spanish
3 entries- quejicoso adj (often complaining)
- quejoso adj (often complaining)
- quejumbroso adj (often complaining)
Ukrainian
3 entries- жалібний adj (often complaining)
- нарікаючий adj (often complaining)
- скиглячий adj (often complaining)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
The President was patient, persuasive, reasonable: the General was querulous, petty and sometimes actually insulting.
Source: tatoeba (11083161)
The storekeeper, Tom Jackson, is a querulous man.
Source: tatoeba (12272810)
“Nay, you said as much before,” said the querulous old man, “and yet I was put forth from Kinross, and pillaged by troopers on the road.—[…]”
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