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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Querulous or discontented.
  2. adj. Ill-tempered.
  3. adj. Contrary; fractious.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Querulous; petulant; ill-tempered; cross; fitful.
  2. Perverse; self-willed; forward; testy.
  3. Characterized by or indicating discontent, petulancy, or fretfulness.
  4. Childish; silly; foolish; trifling.
  5. Synonyms Fretful, Pettish, etc. (see petulant), ill-natured, testy, irritable, waspish.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Constantly complaining; fretful, whining.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Habitually fretful; easily vexed or fretted; hard to please; apt to complain; querulous; petulant.
  2. adj. Expressing fretfulness and discontent, or unjustifiable dissatisfaction.
  3. adj. Silly; childish; trifling.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. easily irritated or annoyed

Etymologies

  1. Middle English pevish, possibly from Latin perversus, past participle of perversus; see perverse.

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