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- Thesaurus|401
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137 entries under irritable topic. ×
| quick(tetchy, snippy) | |
| sour(adjective, grumpy, bad-tempered, tetchy) | |
| blunt(adjective, grumpy, bad-tempered, tetchy) | |
| caviling(mean, nervous, worried, critical) | |
| childish(mean, cross, ugly, crabby) | |
| complaining(adjective, mean, cross, nervous) | |
| critical(mean, nervous, worried, restless) | |
| cussed(mean, cross, ugly, crabby) | |
| dour(unstable, changeable, abrupt, gruff) | |
| fretting(adjective, mean, cross, ugly) | |
| growling(mean, cross, ugly, crabby) | |
| ill-humored(adjective, cross, unstable, changeable) | |
| mean(cross, nervous, worried, critical) | |
| morose(adjective, mean, cross, unstable) | |
| nasty(bad-tempered, tetchy, snippy) | |
| obstinate(mean, difficult, cross, ugly) | |
| ogre(mean, cross, ugly, touchy) | |
| out of sorts(expression, idiom, mean, unstable) | |
| pertinacious(mean, cross, ugly, crabby) | |
| saturnine(unstable, changeable, abrupt, gruff) |
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