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All grumpy synonyms

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adj grumpy

  • sullen — showing irritation or ill humor by a gloomy silence or reserve.
  • grouchy — sullenly discontented; sulky; morose; ill-tempered.
  • cantankerous — Someone who is cantankerous is always finding things to argue or complain about.
  • testy — irritably impatient; touchy.
  • crotchety — A crotchety person is bad-tempered and easily irritated.
  • surly — churlishly rude or bad-tempered: a surly waiter. Synonyms: sullen, uncivil, brusque, irascible, splenetic, choleric, cross; grumpy, grouchy, crabby.
  • irritable — easily irritated or annoyed; readily excited to impatience or anger.
  • bad-tempered — Someone who is bad-tempered is not very cheerful and gets angry easily.
  • crabby — Someone who is crabby is bad-tempered and unpleasant to people.
  • cross — If you cross something such as a room, a road, or an area of land or water, you move or travel to the other side of it. If you cross to a place, you move or travel over a room, road, or area of land or water in order to reach that place.
  • disgruntled — displeased and discontented; sulky; peevish: Her disgruntled husband refused to join us.
  • dissatisfied — not satisfied or pleased; discontented.
  • grumbling — to murmur or mutter in discontent; complain sullenly.
  • peevish — cross, querulous, or fretful, as from vexation or discontent: a peevish youngster.
  • querulous — full of complaints; complaining.
  • sulky — marked by or given to sulking; sullen.
  • truculent — fierce; cruel; savagely brutal.
  • griping — Informal. to complain naggingly or constantly; grumble.

adjective grumpy

  • cranky — If you describe ideas or ways of behaving as cranky, you disapprove of them because you think they are strange.
  • ill-tempered — bad or irritable disposition.
  • complaining — to express dissatisfaction, pain, uneasiness, censure, resentment, or grief; find fault: He complained constantly about the noise in the corridor.
  • snappy — Snappy Video Snapshot
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