noun
Meaning 1
The state of being peevish.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
peevishness
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Pronunciation
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noun
Meaning 2
a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- his temper was well known to all his employees
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: temper, biliousness, irritability, pettishness, snappishness, surliness
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: ill nature
Narrower terms: querulousness
noun
Meaning 3
an irritable petulant feeling
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: irritability, crossness, fretfulness, fussiness, petulance, choler
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: ill humor, ill humour, distemper
Narrower terms: testiness, touchiness, tetchiness, pet
History
Etymology
From Middle English pevyshnesse, equivalent to peevish + -ness.
Across languages
Translations
22 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- German: Gereiztheit — the state of being peevish
- German: schlechte Laune — the state of being peevish
- Irish: aincis — the state of being peevish
- Irish: aingíocht — the state of being peevish
- Irish: cantal — the state of being peevish
- Irish: cantlamh — the state of being peevish
- Irish: cianaí — the state of being peevish
- Irish: domlastacht — the state of being peevish
- Irish: driuch — the state of being peevish
- Irish: frichantal — the state of being peevish
- Irish: míchéadfa — the state of being peevish
- Irish: múisiam — the state of being peevish
- Italian: piccosità — the state of being peevish
- Latin: senium — the state of being peevish
- Latin: morositas — the state of being peevish
- Manx: neureeartys — the state of being peevish
- Polish: zirytowanie — the state of being peevish
- Polish: rozdrażnienie — the state of being peevish
- Russian: ворчли́вость (vorčlívostʹ) — the state of being peevish
- Russian: сварли́вость (svarlívostʹ) — the state of being peevish
- Turkish: kıllık — the state of being peevish
- Ottoman Turkish: خرچینلق (hırçınlık) — the state of being peevish