English-Thai Dictionary

petulant

ADJ เจ้าอารมณ์  ขี้โมโห  ฉุนเฉียว ง่าย  ใช้ อารมณ์  fretful pettish touchy jao-ar-rom

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PETULANT

a.[L. petulans.] Saucy; pert or forward with fretfulness or sourness of temper; as a petulant youth. 1. Manifesting petulance; proceeding from pettishness; as a petulant demand; a petulant answer.
2. Wanton; freakish in passion.

 

PETULANTLY

adv. With petulance; with saucy pertness.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

PETULANT

Pet "u *lant, a. Etym: [L. petulans, -antis, prop. , making slight attacks upon, from a lost dim. of petere to fall upon, to attack: cf. F. pétulant. See Petition. ]

 

1. Forward; pert; insolent; wanton. [Obs. ] Burton.

 

2. Capriciously fretful; characterized by ill-natured freakishness; irritable. "Petulant moods." Macaulay.

 

Syn. -- Irritable; ill-humored; peevish; cross; fretful; querulous.

 

PETULANTLY

PETULANTLY Pet "u *lant *ly, adv.

 

Defn: In a petulant manner.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

petulant

pet u lant |ˈpeCHələnt ˈpɛtʃələnt | ▶adjective (of a person or their manner ) childishly sulky or bad-tempered: he was moody and petulant | a petulant shake of the head. DERIVATIVES pet u lant ly adverb ORIGIN late 16th cent. (in the sense ‘immodest ’): from French pétulant, from Latin petulant- ‘impudent ’ (related to petere ‘aim at, seek ’). The current sense (mid 18th cent. ) is influenced by pettish .

 

Oxford Dictionary

petulant

petulant |ˈpɛtjʊl (ə )nt | ▶adjective (of a person or their manner ) childishly sulky or bad-tempered: he was moody and petulant | a petulant shake of the head. DERIVATIVES petulantly adverb ORIGIN late 16th cent. (in the sense ‘immodest ’): from French pétulant, from Latin petulant- ‘impudent ’ (related to petere ‘aim at, seek ’). The current sense (mid 18th cent. ) is influenced by pettish .

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

petulant

petulant adjective he's as petulant as a spoiled child: peevish, bad-tempered, querulous, pettish, fretful, cross, irritable, sulky, snappish, crotchety, touchy, tetchy, testy, fractious, grumpy, disgruntled, crabby; informal grouchy, cranky. ANTONYMS good-humored.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

petulant

petulant adjective he sounded as petulant as a spoiled child. See querulous.

 

French Dictionary

pétulant

pétulant , ante adj. adjectif Vif, turbulent. : Des répliques pétulantes et rafraîchissantes. « Ma nouvelle logeuse […] une pétulante Galloise, toute en drôleries, tours, farces et toujours à la course » (Gabrielle Roy , La Détresse et l ’Enchantement ). Note Orthographique pétul ant.

 

Spanish Dictionary

petulante

petulante nombre común Que se muestra convencido de sus buenas cualidades y desprecia la opinión de otras personas .

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

petulant

pet u lant /pétʃ (ə )lənt |pétjʊ -/形容詞 短気な, 怒りっぽい, 不機嫌な, 気難しい, すねた .～ly 副詞