SCRATCHY Synonyms

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

• easily irritated or annoyed

• stubbornly resistant to authority or control

• easily irritated or annoyed

• unpredictably difficult in operation; likely to be troublesome

• a barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air

• a frame of iron bars to hold a fire

• optical device consisting of a surface with many parallel grooves in it; disperses a beam of light (or other electromagnetic radiation) into its wavelengths to produce its spectrum

• unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound

• abounding in small stones

• unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound

• easily irritated or annoyed

• abnormally sensitive to a stimulus

• capable of responding to stimuli

• causing irritation or annoyance

• easily irritated or annoyed

• somewhat hungry

• easily irritated or annoyed

• easily irritated or annoyed

• easily irritated or annoyed

• easily irritated or annoyed

• uttering in an irritated tone

• unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound

• unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound

• having or caused by an irregular surface

• of the margin of a leaf shape; having the edge cut or fringed or scalloped

• causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements

• not shaped by cutting or trimming

• the part of a golf course bordering the fairway where the grass is not cut short

• with roughness or violence (`rough' is an informal variant for `roughly')

• with rough motion as over a rough surface

• (of persons or behavior) lacking refinement or finesse

• not quite exact or correct

• full of hardship or trials

• violently agitated and turbulent

• unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound

• ready and able to resort to force or violence

• not carefully or expertly made

• not perfected

• unpleasantly stern

• unkind or cruel or uncivil

• prepare in preliminary or sketchy form

• having spots or patches (small areas of contrasting color or texture)

• lacking consistency

• easily irritated or annoyed

• easily irritated or annoyed

• easily irritated or annoyed

• not even or uniform as e.g. in shape or texture

• not divisible by two

• (of a contest or contestants) not fairly matched as opponents

• variable and recurring at irregular intervals

• lacking consistency