Synonyms for querulous
- adjective
Most common
petulant cantankerous fretful peevish dissatisfied querimonious
All synonyms
Adjective
1. Peevish
peevish, fretful, petulant, cantankerous, irritable, whiny, irascible, complaining, plaintive, quarrelsome, discontented, mournful, choleric, unhappy, testy, huffy informal, sorrowful, sad, cross, splenetic, pettish informal, ill-tempered
Other
Definitions
- adj. 1
Often complaining; suggesting a complaint in expression; fretful, whining.
Example sentences
- petulant Her petulant humor upset the attendees.
- cantankerous Dmitri has an unlikable and cantankerous personality.
- peevish Tom woke up feeling rather peevish.
- dissatisfied Dissatisfied customers are voting with their feet.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| querulous | steady | |
| petulant | rising | |
| cantankerous | rising | |
| fretful | rising | |
| peevish | rising | |
| dissatisfied | falling |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 3 letters
- sad1
- 5 letters
- cross1, whiny2, testy2, huffy2
- 7 letters
- unhappy3, fretful2, peevish2, pettish
- 8 letters
- critical3, petulant3, mournful2, choleric3
- 9 letters
- irritable4, sorrowful3, plaintive2, irascible4, splenetic
- 11 letters
- complaining3, quarrelsome3
- 12 letters
- dissatisfied4, discontented4, cantankerous4, querimonious
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (whiny2 = 2 syllables).