What is "pettish" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "pettish": easily irritated or annoyed

Adjective

Synonyms:

short, peeved, faultfinding, annoyed, cantankerous, captious, choleric, churlish, crabby, cranky, crotchety, crusty, disagreeable, fractious, fretful, grouchy, grumpy, ill-tempered, impatient, irascible, irritable, jumpy, peevish, petulant, put out, querulous, quick-tempered, ratty, snappy, sullen, surly, testy, touchy, waspish, tetchy, vexed, caviling, ill-humored, out of humor, splenetic, unpleasant, obnoxious, rude, bellicose, brusque, cantankerous, churlish, contentious, contrary, cross, difficult, disobliging, disputatious, grouchy, ill-natured, nasty, offensive, out of sorts, peevish, petulant, querulous, snappy, surly, ugly, unfriendly, ungracious, uptight, waspish, eristic, unlikable, whiny, testy, unruly, recalcitrant, irritable, unmanageable, restive, awkward, captious, crabby, disorderly, fretful, froward, huffy, indomitable, intractable, mean, ornery, peevish, perverse, petulant, querulous, refractory, snappish, thin-skinned, touchy, undisciplined, wayward, wild, indocile, scrappy, uncompliant, sullen, grouchy, cantankerous, testy, crotchety, surly, irritable, bad-tempered, crabby, cross, disgruntled, dissatisfied, grumbling, peevish, petulant, querulous, sulky, truculent, griping, angered, annoyed, crabby, cross, crotchety, crusty, curt, disgruntled, fractious, grumpy, hurt, insulted, irritable, miffed, moody, offended, peeved, peevish, petulant, provoked, put out, querulous, short, snappish, snappy, sulky, sullen, surly, testy, touchy, waspish, crabbed, resentful, stewed, exasperated, huffish, irked, moping, nettled, piqued, riled, vexed, petulant, contentious, litigious, cantankerous, tempestuous, belligerent, combative, turbulent, fractious, unruly, argumentative, bad-tempered, bellicose, choleric, churlish, crabby, cross, disputatious, excitable, fiery, hasty, hotheaded, huffy, impassioned, irascible, irritable, ornery, passionate, peevish, pugnacious, querulous, snappy, thin-skinned, touchy, truculent, violent, war, brawling, cat-and-dog, dissentious, gladiatorial, have chip on shoulder, ructious, tricky, jumpy, testy, precarious, sensitive, uptight, volatile, delicate, ticklish, risky, dicey, bad-tempered, cantankerous, captious, choleric, cranky, cross, grouchy, grumpy, hazardous, irascible, irritable, mean, ornery, peevish, petulant, querulous, quick-tempered, surly, temperamental, thin-skinned, unpredictable, unsafe, crabbed, hypersensitive, bundle of nerves, oversensitive, perturbable, splenetic, wired up, wound up,

Antonyms:

animated, cheerful, pleasant, happy, delightful, pleasant, kind, friendly, inoffensive, pleasing, agreeable, nice, happy, obedient, complaisant, patient, happy, agreeable, nice, cheerful, pleasant, happy, nice, cheerful, delighted, joyful, happy, good-natured, pleasant, obedient, forgiving, friendly, patient, happy, nice, calm, mild, moderate, agreeable, collected, stable, easygoing, laid-back, unflappable, easy, calm, certain, firm, strong, sure, insensitive, safe,