Combative
Petulant
Petulant adjective - Easily irritated or annoyed.
Usage example: a petulant and fussy man who is always blaming everyone else for his problems
Combative and petulant are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Combative" instead an adjective "Petulant".
Nearby Words: petulance, petulantly
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- irritable and combative
- irritable and petulant
- testy and combative
- testy and petulant
- touchy and combative
- touchy and petulant
- fractious and combative
- fractious and petulant
- irascible and combative
- irascible and petulant
- choleric and combative
- choleric and petulant
- quarrelsome and combative
- quarrelsome and petulant
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