adj
Meaning 1
Childishly irritable.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- Lack of sleep is causing Dave's recent petulant behavior.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: bad-tempered, crabby, grouchy, huffy, atrabilious, bilious, bitchy, brainish, cantankerous, carnaptious, choleric, crabbit, cranky, crotchety, dyspeptic, edgy, fantoddish, fiery, fractious, fretful, grumpy, grotchy, hissy, hot-livered, hot-tempered, hotheaded, humpy, ill-natured, ill-tempered, irascible, irritable, liverish, out of sorts, ornery (chiefly US)}, peevish, pettish, petulant, prickly, quick-tempered, querulous, raspy, ratty, short-tempered, snappish, snappy, snippety, snippish, snippy, snitchy, splenetic, stressy, surly, temperamental, testy, tetchy, tetty, thin-skinned, thorny, touchy, twitchy, umbrageous, volatile, waspish
Antonyms: easygoing