peevishness

1. 1.

   an irritable petulant feeling

   Synonymsirritabilitycrossnessfretfulnessfussinesspetulancecholer

   Broaderill humor

   Narrowertestinesspet
2. 2.

   a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger

   “his temper was well known to all his employees”

   Synonymstemperbiliousnessirritabilitypettishnesssnappishnesssurliness

   Broaderill nature

   Narrowerquerulousness

Other forms of peevishness

plural

peevishnesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about peevishness

What does peevishness mean?

peevishness means "an irritable petulant feeling". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in peevishness?

peevishness has 3 syllables: pee-vish-ness. The stress falls on "pee".

What is another word for peevishness?

Close synonyms include irritability, crossness, fretfulness, fussiness, petulance. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is peevishness a common word?

peevishness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.