snappishness
31snappish — adjective bad tempered: Children are often spiteful and snappish. snappishly adverb snappishness noun (U) …
32asperity — *acrimony, acerbity Analogous words: sharpness, keenness (see corresponding adjectives at SHARP): causticity, mordancy (see corresponding adjectives at CAUSTIC): snappishness, waspishness, irritability (see corresponding adjectives at IRRITABLE)… …
33acerbity — n 1.(all of taste) sourness, bitterness, tartness, acidity, acidness, acridity, acridness, acidu lousness; pungency, sharpness, unsavoriness, roughness, harshness. 2.(all of expression or temperament) acrimony, causticity, virulence, mordancy,… …
34impatience — n 1. nervousness, agitation, Inf. whim whams; anxiety, jitteriness, disquiet, restlessness, res tiveness; excitability, flutter, fluster, Sl. flap; impetuosity, eagerness, avidity, precipitateness; itchiness, itchy feet, Sl. ants in one s pants,… …
35irritability — n 1. testiness, petulance, snappishness, irascibility, touchiness, prickliness; excitability, fieriness, inflammability; peevishness, waspishness, raspiness, fretfulness, edginess, nervousness. 2. grouchiness, crankiness, grumpiness, cantanker… …
36petulance — n 1. peevishness, pettishness, Rare. petulancy; ill humoredness, ill humor, touchiness, testiness, waspishness, querulousness, carpingness; irascibleness, irascibility, cholericness, ill temperedness, bad temper, spleen, spleenishness; crabbiness …
37spleen — n 1. petulance, peevishness, pettishness, Rare. petulancy; ill humoredness, ill humor, touchiness, testiness, waspishness, querulousness, carp ingness; irascibleness, irascibility, biliousness, cholericness; ill temperedness, bad temper,… …
38tartness — n 1. sharpness, sourness, acidity, acridness, acerbity; pungency, piquancy, bitterness, acidu lousness, harshness. 2. acrimony, causticity, asperity, mordancy, astrin gency, trenchancy; severity, harshness, austerity, sternness; spite,… …
39testiness — n irritability, petulance, snappishness, irascibility, touchiness, tetchiness, prickliness; peevishness, waspishness, raspiness, fretfulness, edginess, nervousness; excitability, fieriness, inflammability; grouchiness, crankiness, crabbedness,… …
40touchiness — adj 1. tetchiness, testiness, irritability, edginess, snappishness, nervousness; irascibility, cholericness, petulance, Rare. petulancy; grouchiness, grumpiness, crankiness, crabbiness, crotchetiness, crossness, crabbedness; churlishness,… …
