1. (a.) Irritable; ill-tempered; peevish\.

2. (a.) Capriciously fretful; characterized by ill-natured freakishness; irritable.

Jeremianic arbitrary bad-tempered beefing bellyaching bilious bitching cantankerous capricious captious catty choleric complaining complaintful crabbed crabbing crabby cranky croaking cross crotchety disappointed discontented disgruntled displeased dissatisfied envious fanciful fantasied fantastic faultfinding flaky fractious freakish fretful griping grouchy grousing growling grumbling grumpy harebrained howling huffish huffy humorsome ill-humored ill-tempered impatient irascible irritable kinky lamentive maggoty malcontent malcontented moanful moody motiveless mournful murmuring muttering nagging naggy notional out of humor peevish perverse pettish plaintive plangent puling querulant querulous quirky rebellious resentful restive restless shrewish snappish sorrowful sour splenetic sulky temperamental testy ululant unaccepting unaccommodating uneasy unfulfilled ungratified unhappy unreasonable unrestrained unsatisfied vagarious vagrant vixenish vixenly wailful wanton waspish wayward whimpering whimsical whining whiny