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 Definitions for petulant: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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Petulant \Pet"u*lant\, a. [L. petulans, -antis, prop., making
slight attacks upon, from a lost dim. of petere to fall upon,
to attack: cf. F. p['e]tulant. See Petition.]
1. Forward; pert; insolent; wanton. [Obs.] --Burton.
[1913 Webster]
2. Capriciously fretful; characterized by ill-natured
freakishness; irritable. "Petulant moods." --Macaulay.
[1913 Webster]
Syn: Irritable; ill-humored; peevish; cross; fretful;
querulous.
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WordNet (r) 2.0
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petulant
adj : easily irritated or annoyed; "an incorrigibly fractious
young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his
countrymen" [syn: cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome,
peevish, peckish, pettish, testy, tetchy, techy]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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109 Moby Thesaurus words for "petulant":
Jeremianic, arbitrary, bad-tempered, beefing, bellyaching, bilious,
bitching, cantankerous, capricious, captious, catty, choleric,
complaining, complaintful, crabbed, crabbing, crabby, cranky,
croaking, cross, crotchety, disappointed, discontented,
disgruntled, displeased, dissatisfied, envious, fanciful,
fantasied, fantastic, faultfinding, flaky, fractious, freakish,
fretful, griping, grouchy, grousing, growling, grumbling, grumpy,
harebrained, howling, huffish, huffy, humorsome, ill-humored,
ill-tempered, impatient, irascible, irritable, kinky, lamentive,
maggoty, malcontent, malcontented, moanful, moody, motiveless,
mournful, murmuring, muttering, nagging, naggy, notional,
out of humor, peevish, perverse, pettish, plaintive, plangent,
puling, querulant, querulous, quirky, rebellious, resentful,
restive, restless, shrewish, snappish, sorrowful, sour, splenetic,
sulky, temperamental, testy, ululant, unaccepting, unaccommodating,
uneasy, unfulfilled, ungratified, unhappy, unreasonable,
unrestrained, unsatisfied, vagarious, vagrant, vixenish, vixenly,
wailful, wanton, waspish, wayward, whimpering, whimsical, whining,
whiny
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