adj. overcrowded or cluttered with detail; "a busy painting"; "a fussy design"

adj. primly fastidious

adj. excessively concerned about niceties

adj. perversely irritable

adj. (disorderly)

adj. overfilled or compacted or concentrated; "a crowded theater"; "a crowded program"; "crowded trains"; "a young mother's crowded days"

adj. excessively elaborate or showily expressed; "a writer of empurpled literature"; "many purple passages"; "speech embellished with classical quotations"; "an over-embellished story of the fish that got away"

adj. rich in decorative detail

adj. marked by precise accordance with details; "meticulous research"; "punctilious in his attention to rules of etiquette"

adj. characterized by extreme care and great effort; "conscientious application to the work at hand"; "painstaking research"; "scrupulous attention to details"

adj. marked by good order and cleanliness in appearance or habits; "a tidy person"; "a tidy house"; "a tidy mind"

adj. marked by a tendency to find and call attention to errors and flaws; "a critical attitude"

adj. expressive of low opinion; "derogatory comments"; "disparaging remarks about the new house"

adj. (informal) small and of little importance; "a fiddling sum of money"; "a footling gesture"; "our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war"; "a little (or small) matter"; "a dispute over niggling details"; "limited to petty enterprises"; "piffling efforts"; "giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction"

adj. habitually complaining; "a whining child"

adj. having a difficult and contrary disposition; "a cantankerous and venomous-tongued old lady"- Dorothy Sayers

adj. not to your liking; "a most disagreeable journey"; "a disagreeable old man"; "in a disagreeable mood"

adj. easily irritated or annoyed; "an incorrigibly fractious young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen"

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"

adj. not to your liking; "a most disagreeable journey"; "a disagreeable old man"; "in a disagreeable mood"

adj. rude and boorish

adj. causing disapproval or protest; "a vulgar and objectionable person"

adj. unpleasant or disgusting especially to the senses; "offensive odors"

adj. habitually complaining; "a whining child"

adj. elaborately or excessively ornamented; "flamboyant handwriting"; "the senator's florid speech"

adj. having elaborate symmetrical ornamentation; "the building...frantically baroque"-William Dean Howells

adj. having or resembling repeated square indentations like those in a battlement; "a crenelated molding"

adj. in fancy clothing

adj. having the surface decorated with a network of fine cracks, as in crackleware; "a crackle glaze"

adj. (of metals) decorated or inlaid with a wavy pattern of different (especially precious) metals; "a damascened sword"

adj. having a woven pattern; "damask table linens"

adj. marked by complexity and richness of detail; "an elaborate lace pattern"

adj. having or resembling repeated square indentations like those in a battlement; "a crenelated molding"

adj. made of or resembling lace; "a lacy gown"; "a lacy leaf"

adj. gathered for protruding fullness; "puff sleeves"

adj. having excessive asymmetrical ornamentation; "an exquisite gilded rococo mirror"

adj. decorated with wormlike tracery or markings; "vermicular (or vermiculated) stonework"

adj. difficult to please

adj. excessively fastidious and easily disgusted; "too nice about his food to take to camp cooking"; "so squeamish he would only touch the toilet handle with his elbow"

adj. excessively concerned about niceties

adj. having complicated nutritional requirements; especially growing only in special artificial cultures; "fastidious microorganisms"; "certain highly specialized xerophytes are extremely exacting in their requirements"

adj. difficult to please

adj. excessively fastidious and easily disgusted; "too nice about his food to take to camp cooking"; "so squeamish he would only touch the toilet handle with his elbow"

adj. having complicated nutritional requirements; especially growing only in special artificial cultures; "fastidious microorganisms"; "certain highly specialized xerophytes are extremely exacting in their requirements"

adj. primly fastidious

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"

adj. irritable as if suffering from indigestion

adj. very irritable; "bristly exchanges between the White House and the press"; "he became prickly and spiteful"; "witty and waspish about his colleagues"

adj. having a difficult and contrary disposition; "a cantankerous and venomous-tongued old lady"- Dorothy Sayers

adj. quickly aroused to anger; "a hotheaded commander"

adj. easily irritated or annoyed; "an incorrigibly fractious young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen"

adj. brusque and surly and forbidding; "crusty remarks"; "a crusty old man"; "his curmudgeonly temper"; "gruff manner"; "a gruff reply"

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"

adj. quick to take offense

adj. sullen or moody

adj. hating mankind in general

adj. hating women in particular

adj. (British informal) ill-tempered or annoyed

adj. continually complaining or faultfinding; "a shrewish wife"; "nagging parents"

adj. inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace; "a surly waiter"; "an ugly frame of mind"

adj. conforming to your own liking or feelings or nature; "Is the plan agreeable to you?"; "he's an agreeable fellow"; "My idea of an agreeable person...is a person who agrees with me"- Disraeli; "an agreeable manner"

adj. disposed to please; "an amiable villain with a cocky sidelong grin"- Hal Hinson