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Adjectives (11)
troublesome, unruly
adj. hard to manage; inclined to make trouble: "a difficult child"
cranky, irritable, peevish, peckish, pettish, petulant, testy, tetchy, techy
adj. easily irritated or annoyed; "an incorrigibly fractious young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen"
Fuzzynyms (71)
teasing, annoying, chafing, galling, irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestiferous, pestilent, plaguy, plaguey, vexatious, vexing
adj. causing irritation or annoyance; "tapping an annoying rhythm on his glass with his fork"; "aircraft noise is particularly bothersome near the airport"; "found it galling to have to ask permission"; "an irritating delay"; "nettlesome paperwork"; "a pesky mosquito"; "swarms of pestering gnats"; "a plaguey newfangled safety catch"; "a teasing and persistent thought annoyed him"; "a vexatious child"; "it is vexing to have to admit you are wrong"
heavy, hard, slavish, arduous, backbreaking, back-breaking, grueling, gruelling, laborious, labourious, punishing, strenuous, toilsome
adj. characterized by toilsome effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort; "worked their arduous way up the mining valley"; "a grueling campaign"; "hard labor"; "heavy work"; "heavy going"; "spent many laborious hours on the project"; "set a punishing pace"
disagreeable, ill-natured
adj. not to your liking; "a most disagreeable journey"; "a disagreeable old man"; "in a disagreeable mood"
fretful, querulous, whiney, whining, whiny
adj. habitually complaining; "a whining child"
bitter, acrimonious, rancorous, resentful
adj. marked by strong resentment or cynicism; "an acrimonious dispute"; "bitter about the divorce"
mordant, saturnine, sardonic
adj. bitter or scornful; "the face was saturnine and swarthy, and the sensual lips...twisted with disdain"- Oscar Wilde
sarcastic
adj. expressing or expressive of ridicule that wounds
objectionable, unpleasant, obnoxious
adj. causing disapproval or protest; "a vulgar and objectionable person"
offensive
adj. unpleasant or disgusting especially to the senses; "offensive odors"
huffy, touchy, thin-skinned
adj. quick to take offense
irritable
adj. abnormally sensitive to a stimulus
arguing, contentious, quarrelsome
adj. given to quarreling; "arguing children"; "quarrelsome when drinking"
carping, caviling, nitpicking, pettifogging, quibbling, cavilling
adj. quibbling over insignificant details; "caviling pettifoggers and quiggling pleaders"-Edmund Burke; "her nagging and carping attack"; "thought her editor unnecessarily nitpicking"; "a pettifogging lawyer's mind"; "had no patience with quibbling critics"
meticulous, painstaking, finical, finicky, fussy, pernickety, persnickety, punctilious
adj. excessively concerned about niceties
disobedient
adj. not obeying or complying with commands of those in authority; "disobedient children"
impatient
adj. restless or short of temper under delay or opposition; "impatient with the slower students"; "impatient of criticism"
intolerant
adj. unwilling to tolerate difference of opinion
temperamental, moody
adj. subject to sharply varying moods; "a temperamental opera singer"
Synonyms (85)
ambitious, challenging, demanding
adj. requiring full use of your abilities or resources; "ambitious schedule"; "performed the most challenging task without a mistake"
baffling, knotty, problematic, problematical
adj. making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe; "a baffling problem"; "I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast"; "a problematic situation at home"
tricky, catchy
adj. having concealed difficulty; "a catchy question"; "a tricky recipe to follow"
thorny, delicate, ticklish
adj. difficult to handle; requiring great tact; "delicate negotiations with the big powers";"hesitates to be explicit on so ticklish a matter"; "a touchy subject"
trying, serious, distressful
adj. causing vexation or worry: "trying times"; "serious problems"
formidable, tall
adj. impressively difficult; "a tall order"
herculean, Herculean
adj. extremely difficult; requiring the strength of a Hercules; "a herculean task"
hard-fought
adj. requiring great effort; "a hard-fought primary"
hellish
adj. very unpleasant; "hellish weather"; "stop that god-awful racket"
nasty
adj. exasperatingly difficult to handle or circumvent; "a nasty problem"; "a good man to have on your side in a tight situation"
rough, tough, rocky
adj. full of hardship or trials; "the rocky road to success"; "they were having a rough time"
vexed
adj. causing difficulty in finding an answer or solution; much disputed; "the vexed issue of priorities"; "we live in vexed and troubled times"
argumentative, contentious, disputatious, disputative, litigious
adj. inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits; "a style described as abrasive and contentious"; "a disputatious lawyer"; "a litigious and acrimonious spirit"
dyspeptic, atrabilious, bilious, liverish
adj. irritable as if suffering from indigestion
bristly, prickly, snappish, splenetic, waspish
adj. very irritable; "bristly exchanges between the White House and the press"; "he became prickly and spiteful"; "witty and waspish about his colleagues"
cantankerous, crotchety, ornery
adj. having a difficult and contrary disposition; "a cantankerous and venomous-tongued old lady"- Dorothy Sayers
choleric, irascible, hotheaded, hot-headed, hot-tempered, quick-tempered, short-tempered
adj. quickly aroused to anger; "a hotheaded commander"
cross, fussy, crabbed, crabby, grouchy, grumpy, bad-tempered, ill-tempered
adj. perversely irritable
gruff, crusty, curmudgeonly, ill-humored, ill-humoured
adj. brusque and surly and forbidding; "crusty remarks"; "a crusty old man"; "his curmudgeonly temper"; "gruff manner"; "a gruff reply"
sour, sullen, glum, moody, dour, glowering, morose, saturnine
adj. showing a brooding ill humor; "a dark scowl"; "the proverbially dour New England Puritan"; "a glum, hopeless shrug"; "he sat in moody silence"; "a morose and unsociable manner"; "a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"- Bruce Bliven; "a sour temper"; "a sullen crowd"
feisty, touchy
adj. quick to take offense
sulky, huffish
adj. sullen or moody
misanthropic, misanthropical
adj. hating mankind in general
misogynous
adj. hating women in particular
shirty, snorty
adj. (British informal) ill-tempered or annoyed
vixenish, shrewish, nagging
adj. continually complaining or faultfinding; "a shrewish wife"; "nagging parents"
ugly, surly
adj. inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace; "a surly waiter"; "an ugly frame of mind"
Antonyms (6)
simple
adj. having few parts; not complex or complicated or involved; "a simple problem"; "simple mechanisms"; "a simple design"; "a simple substance"
simple, elementary, uncomplicated, unproblematic
adj. easy and not involved or complicated; "an elementary problem in statistics"; "elementary, my dear Watson"; "a simple game"; "found an uncomplicated solution to the problem"
good-natured
adj. having an easygoing and cheerful disposition; "too good-natured to resent a little criticism"; "the good-natured policeman on our block"; "the sounds of good-natured play"
fractious
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