Thesaurus: peevish

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1. a. Habitually fretful; easily vexed or fretted; hard to please; apt to complain; querulous; petulant.
2. a. Expressing fretfulness and discontent, or unjustifiable dissatisfaction; as, a peevish answer.
3. a. Silly; childish; trifling.
4. adj. easily irritated or annoyed
5. 1. Habitually fretful; easily vexed or fretted; hard to please; apt to complain; querulous; petulant. "Her peevish babe." Wordsworth. She is peevish, sullen, froward. Shak. 2. Expressing fretfulness and discontent, or unjustifiable dissatisfaction; as, a peevish answer. 3. Silly; childish; trifling. [Obs.] To send such peevish tokens to a king. Shak. Syn. -- Querulous; petulant; cross; ill-tempered; testy; captious; discontented. See Fretful.
6. j:100 s easily irritated or annoyed