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Synonyms for petulant
ˈpɛtʃ ə ləntpetu·lant
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Wiktionary
petulantadjective
Synonyms:
grouchy, ill-tempered, bad-tempered, irritable, crabby, snappish, huffyAntonyms:
easygoingpetulantadjective
childishly irritable
Lack of sleep is causing Dave's recent petulant behavior.
Synonyms:
huffy, snappish, irritable, grouchy, bad-tempered, ill-tempered, crabbyAntonyms:
easygoing
English Synonyms and Antonyms
petulant
Perverse (Latin perversus, turned the wrong way) signifies wilfully wrong or erring, unreasonably set against right, reason, or authority. The stubborn or obstinate person will not do what another desires or requires; the perverse person will do anything contrary to what is desired or required of him. The petulant person frets, but may comply; the perverse individual may be smooth or silent, but is wilfully intractable. Wayward refers to a perverse disregard of morality and duty; froward is practically obsolete; untoward is rarely heard except in certain phrases; as, untoward circumstances. Compare OBSTINATE.
Synonyms:
contrary, factious, fractious, froward, intractable, obstinate, perverse, stubborn, ungovernable, untoward, wayward, wilfulAntonyms:
accommodating, amenable, complaisant, compliant, genial, governable, kind, obliging
Princeton's WordNet
cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peevish, peckish, pettish, petulant, scratchy, testy, tetchy, techyadjective
easily irritated or annoyed
"an incorrigibly fractious young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen"
Synonyms:
irritating, rough, tender, bothersome, galling, cranky, gravelly, crank, pesky, scratchy, pettish, pestiferous, pestering, abrasive, uneven, vexing, irritable, excitable, plaguey, refractory, teasing, tippy, peevish, rasping, recalcitrant, nettlesome, fractious, plaguy, tetchy, testy, spotty, techy, vexatious, raspy, peckish, annoying, gratingAntonyms:
good-natured
Dictionary of English Synonymes
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
petulantadjective
Synonyms:
cross
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "petulant":
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Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#5548 | rough | |
#6740 | tender | |
#6811 | contrary | |
#9416 | annoying | |
#16647 | crank | |
#21074 | teasing | |
#21612 | uneven | |
#23129 | abrasive | |
#23970 | irritating | |
#24054 | stubborn | |
#26620 | irritable | |
#27763 | refractory | |
#28023 | grating | |
#30182 | cranky | |
#31554 | perverse | |
#33621 | wayward | |
#34818 | pesky | |
#41277 | smug | |
#42831 | intractable | |
#46948 | bothersome | |
#51084 | spotty | |
#59577 | scratchy | |
#61099 | wilful | |
#62710 | huffy | |
#65060 | crabby | |
#66176 | obstinate | |
#66650 | grouchy | |
#68434 | gravelly | |
#70249 | recalcitrant | |
#70924 | techy | |
#72009 | excitable | |
#74214 | testy | |
#78530 | vexing | |
#79668 | untoward | |
#89995 | vexatious | |
#90718 | tippy | |
#96709 | raspy | |
#101981 | galling | |
#103649 | petulant | |
#108040 | pestering | |
#111963 | fractious | |
#112226 | peevish | |
#147394 | rasping | |
#179979 | ungovernable | |
#220187 | factious | |
#230741 | froward | |
#238388 | snappish | |
#287350 | peckish | |
#323849 | tetchy |
How to use petulant in a sentence?
It was a petulant president of the United States, a person who would say: 'I'll keep government shut down for weeks, months or years unless I get my way.' That's just not the way democracy works, and so it's very sad.
No government or ruler wants to be seen to sell Palestine so cheaply and hand Netanyahu such a victory and, in fact, end up footing the bill, at the same time, all states except perhaps Egypt are dependent upon the U.S. and will not risk angering Trump, given his propensity to act like a petulant child.
Thank you for putting up with me as a petulant teenager, thank you for the best acting partnership I've ever known.
When we've said to ourselves on the Armed Services Committee or in the Senate that we were deeply disturbed and worried about a petulant and unpredictable administration, we could reassure ourselves and the nation that there was a strong and stable expert, a patriot, in the position of standing between The President and the use of military force.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie:
The president is a petulant child.
Translations for petulant
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- مشاكسArabic
- popudlivýCzech
- nervös, launenhaft, launischGerman
- malhumoradoSpanish
- kiukuttelevaFinnish
- irritable, irascible, pétulantFrench
- agresifHaitian Creole
- նեղացկոտ, խռովկանArmenian
- petulanteItalian
- luimig, prikkelbaar, zenuwachtigDutch
- pirrelig, amper, hårsår, lunefullNorwegian
- раздражительныйRussian
- nevrlýSlovak
- வெடுவெடுப்பானTamil
- ขี้งอนThai
- huysuzTurkish
- 易怒的Chinese
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