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Synonyms for testy
ˈtɛs titesty

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  1. testyadjective

    Synonyms:
    tetchy, touchy

  2. testyadjective

    Easily annoyed, irritable.

    Synonyms:
    tetchy, touchy

  3. testyadjective

    Marked by impatience or ill humor.

    He made testy remarks.

    Synonyms:
    touchy, tetchy

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  1. testy

    Synonyms:
    irritable, peevish, fretful, touchy, cross, fractious, captious, petulant

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  1. 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, petulant, irritable, excitable, plaguey, refractory, teasing, tippy, peevish, rasping, recalcitrant, nettlesome, fractious, plaguy, tetchy, spotty, techy, vexatious, raspy, peckish, annoying, grating

    Antonyms:
    good-natured

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  1. testyadjective

    Synonyms:
    peevish, petulant, fretful, pettish, touchy, cross, waspish, snappish, choleric, splenetic, irascible, irritable, captious, hasty, quick, peppery

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  1. testyadjective

    Synonyms:
    irritable, choleric, captious

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How to use testy in a sentence?

  1. Thomas Fuller:

    Never contend with one that is foolish, proud, positive, testy, or with a superior, or a clown, in matter of argument.

  2. Michael Karpf:

    When you don’t have climate control on, with three people in the car, things can get a bit testy in there.

  3. Tiger Woods:

    I need to see it testy to post a good round and hope that will be enough, i guess one word( today) would be frustrating, to make four bogeys, I couldn't afford to do that.


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