Synonyms of peevish

1 Syllable

mean, cross

2 Syllables

tetchier, childish, crabbier, grumpy, carping, huffy, crabby, cussed, surly, cranky, shrewish, waspish, angry, froward, chuffy, captious, waspy, fractious, crabbed, grousing, sulky, fretful, mumpish, whiny, whining, crustier, chuffier, testy, crosser, sullen, touchy, grouchier, crusty, grouchy, bearish, growling, touchier, testier, ogre, churlish, tetchy, huffier, snappy, pettish, ructious, grumpier, fretting, ugly, touchiest, huffish

3 Syllables

choleric, petulant, crotchety, ornery, out-of-sorts, caviling, cavillous, fault-finding, complaining, splenetic, disgruntled, volcanic, critical, cat-and-dog, uneasy, morose, querulous

4 Syllables

ill-natured, disagreeable, irascible, cantankerous, bad-tempered, excitable, quarrelsome, short-tempered, exceptive, ill-humored, pertinacious, irritable, acrimonious, obstinate

6 Syllables

oversensitive