NOUN | feeling | petulance, irritability, crossness, fretfulness, fussiness, peevishness, choler | an irritable petulant feeling |
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Sounds | peh'chahlahns | |
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Rhymes | abeyance ... virulence: 273 rhymes with ahns... |
Meaning | An irritable petulant feeling. | |
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Synonyms | irritability, crossness, fretfulness, fussiness, peevishness, choler | |
Narrower | pet | A fit of petulance or sulkiness (especially at what is felt to be a slight) |
testiness, touchiness, tetchiness | Feeling easily irritated | |
Broader | ill humor, ill humour, distemper | An angry and disagreeable mood |
Spanish | cólera, furia | |
Catalan | còlera, fúria | |
Adjectives | petulant | easily irritated or annoyed |
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