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  • 51peevish — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. irascible, fretful, cranky, cross, irritable, touchy. See irascibility. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Having a sour disposition] Syn. perverse, pertinacious, morose; see obstinate . 2. [Inclined to… …

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  • 52crabby — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. peevish, querulous, grumpy; see complaining , irritable . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. *bitchy, surly, irritable, *cranky, snappish, cross, petulant, grouchy, testy, moody, *touchy, ANT.: sweet, pleasant, good… …

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  • 53ill-tempered — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. cross, touchy, querulous; see irritable , quarrelsome 2 , sullen . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. nasty, moody, explosive, ill natured, contentious, grouchy, irritable, crabby, touchy, sour, surly, waspish,… …

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  • 54Lamentation — (Roget s Thesaurus) >Expression of pain. < N PARAG:Lamentation >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 lament lament lamentation Sgm: N 1 wail wail complaint plaint murmur mutter grumble groan moan whine …

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  • 55Fastidiousness — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Fastidiousness >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 fastidiousness fastidiousness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 nicety nicety hypercriticism difficulty in being pleased friandise epicurism omnia suspendens naso GRP: N 2 Sgm: N 2 epicu …

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  • 56Irascibility — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Irascibility >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 irascibility irascibility irascibleness temper Sgm: N 1 crossness crossness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 susceptibility susceptibility procacity petulance irritability …

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  • 57quarrel — English has two words quarrel, one of them now little more than a historical memory. Quarrel ‘argument’ [14] goes back via Old French querele to Latin querēla, a derivative of querī ‘complain’. Also based on querī was querulus ‘complaining’, from …

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  • 58ὀδυρτικῶν — ὀδυρτικός querulous fem gen pl ὀδυρτικός querulous masc/neut gen pl …

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  • 59ὀδυρτικόν — ὀδυρτικός querulous masc acc sg ὀδυρτικός querulous neut nom/voc/acc sg …

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  • 60su̯ād- —     su̯ād     English meaning: sweet     Deutsche Übersetzung: ‘sũß; an etwas Geschmack, Freude finden”     Material: 1. su̯üdu s ‘sweet”: O.Ind. svüdu , f. svüdvī ‘sweet, mellifluous”; Gk. ἡδύς, f. εῖα (* εFια), ύ, Dor. ἁδύς ‘sweet”; with… …

    Proto-Indo-European etymological dictionary

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