petulant

petulant
    adj 1: easily irritated or annoyed; "an incorrigibly fractious
           young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen"
           [syn: {cranky}, {fractious}, {irritable}, {nettlesome},
           {peevish}, {peckish}, {pettish}, {petulant}, {scratchy},
           {testy}, {tetchy}, {techy}]
    

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.
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   2. Capriciously fretful; characterized by ill-natured
      freakishness; irritable. "Petulant moods." --Macaulay.
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   Syn: Irritable; ill-humored; peevish; cross; fretful;
        querulous.
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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