adjective
easily exasperated
the miserable weather made us all irritable
Synonyms: disagreeable, fractious, fretful, huffy, peevish, pettish, petulant, ||pindling, prickish, prickly, querulent, querulential, querulous, raspish, raspy, snappish, snappy, twitty, waspish, waspy, whiny; compare cantankerous , irascible
Related Word: cranky, cross, testy, touchy; choleric, irascible, splenetic
Contrasted words: amiable, complaisant, good-natured, obliging; affable, cordial, genial, gracious, sociable
Antonyms: easygoing