| 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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