Word Meanings - QUERULOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Given to quarreling; quarrelsome. land. 2. Apt to find fault; habitually complaining; disposed to murmur; as, a querulous man or people. Enmity can hardly be more annoying that querulous, jealous, exacting fondness. Macaulay. 3. Expressing

Additional info about word: QUERULOUS

1. Given to quarreling; quarrelsome. land. 2. Apt to find fault; habitually complaining; disposed to murmur; as, a querulous man or people. Enmity can hardly be more annoying that querulous, jealous, exacting fondness. Macaulay. 3. Expressing complaint; fretful; whining; as, a querulous tone of voice. Syn. -- Complaining; bewailing; lamenting; whining; mourning; murmuring; discontented; dissatisfied. -- Quer"u*lous*ly, adv. -- Quer"u*lous*ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of QUERULOUS)

• Disputatious
• Litigious
• argumentative
• cantankerous
• quarrelsome
• querulous
• Peevish
• Fretful
• petulant
• testy
• captious
• waspish
• splenetic
• ill-natured
• irascible
• Pettish
• Petulant
• peevish

Related words: (words related to QUERULOUS)

• CANTANKEROUS
  Perverse; contentious; ugly; malicious. -- Can*tan"ker*ous*ly, adv. -- Can*tan"ker*ous*ness, n. The cantankerous old maiden aunt. Theckeray.
• CAPTIOUSNESS
  Captious disposition or manner.
• PEEVISH
  1. Habitually fretful; easily vexed or fretted; hard to please; apt to complain; querulous; petulant. "Her peevish babe." Wordsworth. She is peevish, sullen, froward. Shak. 2. Expressing fretfulness and discontent, or unjustifiable dissatisfaction;
• PETTISH
  Fretful; peevish; moody; capricious; inclined to ill temper. "A pettish kind of humor." Sterne. -- Pet"tish*ly, adv. -- Pet"tish*ness, n.
• SPLENETICAL
  Splenetic.
• DISPUTATIOUS
  Inclined to dispute; apt to civil or controvert; characterized by dispute; as, a disputatious person or temper. The Christian doctrine of a future life was no recommendation of the new religion to the wits and philosophers of that disputations
• LITIGIOUSLY
  In a litigious manner.
• CAPTIOUSLY
  In a captious manner.
• PEEVISHLY
  In a peevish manner. Shak.
• ARGUMENTATIVE
  1. Consisting of, or characterized by, argument; containing a process of reasoning; as, an argumentative discourse. 2. Adductive as proof; indicative; as, the adaptation of things to their uses is argumentative of infinite wisdom in the Creator.
• PEEVISHNESS
  The quality of being peevish; disposition to murmur; sourness of temper. Syn. -- See Petulance.
• WASPISH
  1. Resembling a wasp in form; having a slender waist, like a wasp. 2. Quick to resent a trifling affront; characterized by snappishness; irritable; irascible; petulant; snappish. He was naturally a waspish and hot man. Bp. Hall. Much do I suffer,
• PETULANT
  attacks upon, from a lost dim. of petere to fall upon, to attack: cf. 1. Forward; pert; insolent; wanton. Burton. 2. Capriciously fretful; characterized by ill-natured freakishness; irritable. "Petulant moods." Macaulay. Syn. -- Irritable;
• SPLENETICALLY
  In a splenetical manner.
• QUARRELSOME
  Apt or disposed to quarrel; given to brawls and contention; easily irritated or provoked to contest; irascible; choleric. Syn. -- Pugnacious; irritable; irascible; brawling; choleric; fiery; petulant. -- Quar"rel*some*ly, adv. -- Quar"rel*some*ness,
• LITIGIOUS
  1. Inclined to judicial contest; given to the practice of contending in law; guarrelsome; contentious; fond of litigation. " A pettifogging attorney or a litigious client." Macaulay. Soldiers find wars, and lawyers find out still Litigious men,
• QUERULOUS
  1. Given to quarreling; quarrelsome. land. 2. Apt to find fault; habitually complaining; disposed to murmur; as, a querulous man or people. Enmity can hardly be more annoying that querulous, jealous, exacting fondness. Macaulay. 3. Expressing
• SPLENETIC
  Affected with spleen; malicious; spiteful; peevish; fretful. "Splenetic guffaw." G. Eliot. You humor me when I am sick; Why not when I am splenetic Pope. Syn. -- Morese; gloomy; sullen; peevish; fretful.
• PETULANTLY
  In a petulant manner.
• LITIGIOUSNESS
  The state of being litigious; disposition to engage in or carry on lawsuits.
• ANTISPLENETIC
  Good as a remedy against disease of the spleen. -- n.