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petulant 音標拼音: [p'ɛtʃələnt] a. 暴躁的,易生氣的,難以取悅的 暴躁的,易生氣的,難以取悅的 petulant adj 1: easily irritated or annoyed; " an incorrigibly fractious young man"; " not the least nettlesome of his countrymen" [ synonym: { 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. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Capriciously fretful; characterized by ill- natured freakishness; irritable. " Petulant moods." -- Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster] Syn: Irritable; ill- humored; peevish; cross; fretful; querulous. [ 1913 Webster] 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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