ill-humored
111fretful — a. Peevish, petulant, touchy, testy, snappish, waspish, pettish, splenetic, spleeny, captious, irritable, ill humored, ill tempered …
112morose — a. Crabbed, sullen, churlish, sour, sulky, perverse, wayward, spleeny, spleenish, splenetic, humorsome, dogged, gloomy, moody, cross grained, severe, austere, gruff, crusty, surly, ill humored, ill natured …
113petulant — a. 1. Irascible, irritable, fretful, peevish, hasty, touchy, testy, crusty, pettish, waspish, choleric, snappish, snarling, cross, crabbed, captious, censorious, acrimonious, perverse, froward, ill tempered, out of sorts, cavilling, ill humored.… …
114sulky — a. Cross, morose, sour, sullen, spleeny, spleenish, splenetic, perverse, wayward, surly, moody, dogged, churlish, mumpish, cross grained, ill tempered, ill humored, in the sulks, out of humor, out of temper, out of tune …
115tart — a. 1. Sour, acid, acidulous, sharp. 2. Severe, harsh, caustic, crabbed, sharp snappish, testy, snarling, petulant, acrimonious, ill tempered, ill humored, keen …
116crabby — adjective sorry, I didn t mean to be so crabby Syn: irritable, cantankerous, irascible, bad tempered, grumpy, grouchy, crotchety, tetchy, testy, crusty, curmudgeonly, ill tempered, ill humored, peevish, cross, fractious, pettish, crabbed …
117fractious — adjective 1) fractious children Syn: grumpy, bad tempered, irascible, irritable, crotchety, grouchy, cantankerous, short tempered, tetchy, testy, curmudgeonly, ill tempered, ill humored, peevish, cross, waspish, crabby …
118irritable — adjective being out of work made him irritable Syn: bad tempered, short tempered, irascible, tetchy, testy, touchy, grumpy, grouchy, moody, crotchety, in a (bad) mood, cantankerous, bilious, curmudgeonly, ill tempered, annoyed, cross, ill humored …
119morose — adjective Louis sat alone, looking morose Syn: sullen, sulky, gloomy, bad tempered, ill tempered, dour, surly, sour, glum, moody, ill humored, melancholy, melancholic, brooding, broody, doleful, miserable, depressed …
120irritable — irritable, fractious, peevish, snappish, waspish, petulant, pettish, huffy, fretful, querulous apply to persons or to their moods or dispositions in the sense of showing impatience or anger without due or sufficient cause. Irritable implies… …
