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petulant 音标拼音: [p'ɛtʃələnt] a. 暴躁的,易生气的,难以取悦的 暴躁的,易生气的,难以取悦的 petulant adj 1: easily irritated or annoyed; " an incorrigibly fractious young man"; " not the least nettlesome of his countrymen" [ synonym: { cranky}, { fractious}, { irritable}, { nettlesome}, { peevish}, { peckish}, { pettish}, { petulant}, { scratchy}, { testy}, { tetchy}, { techy}] Petulant \ Pet" u* lant\, a. [ L. petulans, - antis, prop., making slight attacks upon, from a lost dim. of petere to fall upon, to attack: cf. F. p[' e] tulant. See { Petition}.] 1. Forward; pert; insolent; wanton. [ Obs.] -- Burton. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Capriciously fretful; characterized by ill- natured freakishness; irritable. " Petulant moods." -- Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster] Syn: Irritable; ill- humored; peevish; cross; fretful; querulous. [ 1913 Webster] 109 Moby Thesaurus words for " petulant": Jeremianic, arbitrary, bad- tempered, beefing, bellyaching, bilious, bitching, cantankerous, capricious, captious, catty, choleric, complaining, complaintful, crabbed, crabbing, crabby, cranky, croaking, cross, crotchety, disappointed, discontented, disgruntled, displeased, dissatisfied, envious, fanciful, fantasied, fantastic, faultfinding, flaky, fractious, freakish, fretful, griping, grouchy, grousing, growling, grumbling, grumpy, harebrained, howling, huffish, huffy, humorsome, ill- humored, ill- tempered, impatient, irascible, irritable, kinky, lamentive, maggoty, malcontent, malcontented, moanful, moody, motiveless, mournful, murmuring, muttering, nagging, naggy, notional, out of humor, peevish, perverse, pettish, plaintive, plangent, puling, querulant, querulous, quirky, rebellious, resentful, restive, restless, shrewish, snappish, sorrowful, sour, splenetic, sulky, temperamental, testy, ululant, unaccepting, unaccommodating, uneasy, unfulfilled, ungratified, unhappy, unreasonable, unrestrained, unsatisfied, vagarious, vagrant, vixenish, vixenly, wailful, wanton, waspish, wayward, whimpering, whimsical, whining, whiny
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