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PEEVISHNESS

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

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Meaning:

An irritable petulant feeling

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

peevishness; irritability; fussiness; fretfulness; crossness; choler; 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))

Sense 2

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Meaning:

A disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

surliness; snappishness; pettishness; biliousness; peevishness; irritability; 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)

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