Irascible
Irascible adjective - Easily irritated or annoyed.
Shrewish and irascible are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Shrewish" instead an adjective "Irascible".
Nearby Word: irascibility
Shrewish
Shrewish adjective - Continually complaining or faultfinding.
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Synonyms for Shrewish
Irascible and shrewish are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Irascible" instead an adjective "Shrewish".
Nearby Word: shrew
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Related pairs
- passionate and irascible
- passionate and shrewish
- irritable and irascible
- irritable and shrewish
- cranky and irascible
- cranky and shrewish
- ill-tempered and irascible
- ill-tempered and shrewish
- short-tempered and irascible
- short-tempered and shrewish
- testy and irascible
- testy and shrewish
- touchy and irascible
- touchy and shrewish
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