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GROUCHY Synonyms

There are 23 synonyms of the word grouchy. (exact relations)
There is 0 hypernym of the word grouchy. (close relations)

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grumpy
adjectiveadj
adjective satellite

• annoyed and irritable

bad-tempered
adjectiveadj
adjective satellite

• annoyed and irritable

crabbed
adjectiveadj
adjective satellite

• annoyed and irritable

crabby
adjectiveadj
adjective satellite

• annoyed and irritable

cranky
adjectiveadj
adjective satellite

• (used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail

• easily irritated or annoyed

cross
verb, nounv, n
noun

• a representation of the structure on which Jesus was crucified; used as an emblem of Christianity or in heraldry

• a wooden structure consisting of an upright post with a transverse piece

• a marking that consists of lines that cross each other

• any affliction that causes great suffering

• (genetics) an organism that is the offspring of genetically dissimilar parents or stock; especially offspring produced by breeding plants or animals of different varieties or breeds or species

• (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids

adjective satellite

• extending or lying across; in a crosswise direction; at right angles to the long axis

• annoyed and irritable

verb

• travel across or pass over

• meet at a point

• hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of

• fold so as to resemble a cross

• to cover or extend over an area or time period

• meet and pass

• trace a line through or across

• breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties

ill-tempered
adjectiveadj
adjective satellite

• annoyed and irritable

cantankerous
adjectiveadj
adjective satellite

• stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate

• having a difficult and contrary disposition

choleric
adjectiveadj
adjective satellite

• easily moved to anger

• quickly aroused to anger

• characterized by anger

crotchety
adjectiveadj
adjective satellite

• having a difficult and contrary disposition

curmudgeonly
adjectiveadj
adjective satellite

• brusque and surly and forbidding

irritable
adjectiveadj
adjective satellite

• easily irritated or annoyed

• abnormally sensitive to a stimulus

• capable of responding to stimuli

moody
adjectiveadj
noun

• United States tennis player who dominated women's tennis in the 1920s and 1930s (1905-1998)

• United States evangelist (1837-1899)

adjective satellite

• showing a brooding ill humor

• subject to sharply varying moods

ornery
adjectiveadj
adjective satellite

• having a difficult and contrary disposition

peevish
adjectiveadj
adjective satellite

• easily irritated or annoyed

prickly
adjectiveadj
adjective satellite

• very irritable

• having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.

sour
verb, adjectivev, adj
adjective

• having a sharp biting taste

noun

• a cocktail made of a liquor (especially whiskey or gin) mixed with lemon or lime juice and sugar

• the taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth

• the property of being acidic

adjective satellite

• smelling of fermentation or staleness

• one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of vinegar or lemons

• in an unpalatable state

• inaccurate in pitch

• showing a brooding ill humor

verb

• go sour or spoil

• make sour or more sour

sulky
adjectiveadj
noun

• a light two-wheeled vehicle for one person; drawn by one horse

adjective satellite

• sullen or moody

• slow or slothful

• depressingly dark

surly
adjectiveadj
adjective satellite

• inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace

testy
adjectiveadj
adjective satellite

• easily irritated or annoyed

Alternatives for GRUMPY

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