Thesaurus:peevish

Thesaurus

peevish

English

Adjective

Sense: inclined to whine or complain

Synonyms

• bemoaning
• carping
• complaining
• fretful
• gripeful
• gripey
• grotchy (fandom slang)
• grouchy
• grumbling
• grumpy
• knappish (obsolete)
• kvetchy
• mardy (UK)
• moaning
• noodgy
• peevish
• pettish
• plaintful
• querulous
• sooky (Aus, NZ, Canada)
• spleeny
• sulky
• whingy
• whining
• whiny

Antonyms

• expressionless
• happy    [⇒ thesaurus]
• calm    [⇒ thesaurus]
• impassive
• patient
• phlegmatic
• stoic
• stoical
• tolerant
• uncomplaining
• unflappable
• unpeevish

Hyponyms

• hypochondriacal
• vapourish
•   —
• captious
• caviling
• critical
• fastidious    [⇒ thesaurus]
• faultfinding
• hypercritical
• nitpicky
• pettifoging

Hypernyms

• discontented
• resentful
• sad    [⇒ thesaurus]
• unhappy    [⇒ thesaurus]
• unsatisfied

See also

• Thesaurus:complain
• Thesaurus:complainer
• Thesaurus:cheerless
• Thesaurus:irritable

Further reading

• “901. irascibility” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “peevish” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.