Synonyms of petulant

1 Syllable

mean, cross, sour

2 Syllables

tetchier, crabbier, grumpy, huffy, crabby, moody, cranky, snappier, shrewish, waspish, froward, chuffy, captious, waspy, huffish, snappish, fractious, crabbed, sulky, grousing, fretful, grumbling, peevish, mumpish, whiny, grumbly, whining, chuffier, testy, crosser, sullen, touchy, grouchier, pouting, grouchy, bearish, moodier, touchier, testier, tetchy, huffier, snappy, pettish, ructious, grumpier, touchiest, uptight

3 Syllables

contentious, ungracious, impatient, caviling, cavillous, fault-finding, complaining, displeased, splenetic, disgruntled, pugnacious, cat-and-dog, querulous, crybaby, perverse

4 Syllables

ill-natured, disagreeable, irascible, cantankerous, bad-tempered, quick-tempered, quarrelsome, exceptive, ill-humored, irritable, tempersome, acrimonious

5 Syllables

temperamental

6 Syllables

oversensitive