PEEVISHNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does peevishness mean? 

• PEEVISHNESS (noun)
  The noun PEEVISHNESS has 2 senses:

1. an irritable petulant feeling

2. a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger

  Familiarity information: PEEVISHNESS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PEEVISHNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An irritable petulant feeling

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

choler; crossness; fretfulness; fussiness; irritability; peevishness; petulance

Hypernyms ("peevishness" is a kind of...):

distemper; ill humor; ill humour (an angry and disagreeable mood)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "peevishness"):

testiness; tetchiness; touchiness (feeling easily irritated)

pet (a fit of petulance or sulkiness (especially at what is felt to be a slight))

Derivation:

peevish (easily irritated or annoyed)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

biliousness; irritability; peevishness; pettishness; snappishness; surliness; temper

Context example:

his temper was well known to all his employees

Hypernyms ("peevishness" is a kind of...):

ill nature (a disagreeable, irritable, or malevolent disposition)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "peevishness"):

querulousness (the quality of being given to complaining)