petulant

Questions about petulant

What does petulant mean?

petulant means "easily irritated or annoyed".

How many syllables are in petulant?

petulant has 3 syllables: pet-u-lant. The stress falls on "pet". In IPA it is /ˈpɛtʃələnt/.

What is another word for petulant?

Close synonyms include cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peevish. 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 petulant a common word?

petulant is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.