English-Thai Dictionary

peevish

ADJ ฉุนเฉียว ง่าย  ช่าง ใจน้อย  ขี้โมโห  annoyed angry patient chun-chaio-ngai

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PEEVISH

a. 1. Fretful; petulant; apt to mutter and complain; easily vexed or fretted; querulous; hard to please.
She is peevish, sullen, froward.
2. Expressing discontent and fretfulness.
I will not presume
To send such peevish tokens to a king.
3. Silly; childish.

 

PEEVISHLY

adv. Fretfully; petulantly; with discontent and murmuring.

 

PEEVISHNESS

n.Fretfulness; petulance; disposition to murmur; sourness of temper; as childish peevishness. When peevishness and spleen succeed.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

PEEVISH

Pee "vish, a. Etym: [OE. pevische; of uncertain origin, perh. from a word imitative of the noise made by fretful children + -ish. ]

 

1. Habitually fretful; easily vexed or fretted; hard to please; apt to complain; querulous; petulant. "Her peevish babe. " Wordsworth. She is peevish, sullen, froward. Shak.

 

2. Expressing fretfulness and discontent, or unjustifiable dissatisfaction; as, a peevish answer.

 

3. Silly; childish; trifling. [Obs. ] To send such peevish tokens to a king. Shak.

 

Syn. -- Querulous; petulant; cross; ill-tempered; testy; captious; discontented. See Fretful.

 

PEEVISHLY

PEEVISHLY Pee "vish *ly, adv.

 

Defn: In a peevish manner. Shak.

 

PEEVISHNESS

PEEVISHNESS Pee "vish *ness, n.

 

Defn: The quality of being peevish; disposition to murmur; sourness of temper.

 

Syn. -- See Petulance.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

peevish

peev ish |ˈpēviSH ˈpivɪʃ | ▶adjective easily irritated, esp. by unimportant things: all this makes Steve fretful and peevish. DERIVATIVES peev ish ly adverb, peev ish ness noun ORIGIN late Middle English (in the sense ‘foolish, insane, spiteful ’): of unknown origin.

 

Oxford Dictionary

peevish

peev |ish |ˈpiːvɪʃ | ▶adjective having or showing an irritable disposition: a thin peevish voice. DERIVATIVES peevishly adverb, peevishness noun ORIGIN late Middle English (in the sense ‘perverse, coy ’): of unknown origin.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

peevish

peevish adjective he was embarrassed by his mother's peevish disposition: irritable, fractious, fretful, cross, petulant, querulous, pettish, crabby, crotchety, cantankerous, curmudgeonly, sullen, grumpy, bad-tempered, short-tempered, touchy, testy, tetchy, snappish, irascible, waspish, prickly, crusty, dyspeptic, splenetic, choleric; informal cranky, ornery. ANTONYMS good-humored.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

peevish

peevish adjective the remark came out sounding peevish and sensitive. See irritable.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

peevish

pee vish /píːvɪʃ /形容詞 気難しい, 怒りっぽい, 短気な (bad-tempered ).～ly 副詞 ～ness 名詞