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TESTY (testier, testiest)
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, testiest Dictionary entry overview: What does testy mean?
• TESTY (adjective)
The adjective TESTY has 1 sense:
1. easily irritated or annoyed
Familiarity information: TESTY used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Declension: comparative and superlative |
Superlative: testiest
Sense 1
Meaning:
Easily irritated or annoyed
Synonyms:
cranky; fractious; irritable; nettlesome; peckish; peevish; pettish; petulant; scratchy; techy; testy; tetchy
Context example:
not the least nettlesome of his countrymen
Similar:
ill-natured (having an irritable and unpleasant disposition)
Derivation:
testiness (feeling easily irritated)
Context examples
It may have been the pain, or it may have been his disappointment at my career, but his manner was more testy than was usual with him, and I fear that there was something of a sneer in his smile as he spoke of my deficiencies.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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