Petulant
Petulant adjective - Easily irritated or annoyed.
Repining and petulant are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Repining" instead an adjective "Petulant".
Nearby Words: petulance, petulantly
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- irritable and petulant
- irritable and repining
- cranky and petulant
- cranky and repining
- ill-tempered and petulant
- ill-tempered and repining
- testy and petulant
- testy and repining
- resentful and petulant
- resentful and repining
- bad-tempered and petulant
- bad-tempered and repining
- querulous and petulant
- querulous and repining
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Repining and Petulant. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/petulant/repining
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