Word Meanings - WASPISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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,

Additional info about word: 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, much, to keep in peace This jealous, waspish, wrong-head, rhyming race. Pope. Syn. -- Snappish; petulant; irritable; irascible; testy; peevish; captious. -- Wasp"ish*ly, adv. -- Wasp"ish*ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of WASPISH)

• Fretful
• Irritable
• fractious
• peevish
• impatient
• petulant
• waspish
• Peevish
• querulous
• testy
• captious
• splenetic
• ill-natured
• irascible
• Pettish
• Petulant

Related words: (words related to WASPISH)

• IRRITABLE
  Endowed with irritability; susceptible of irritation; capable of being excited to action by the application of certain stimuli. (more info) 1. Capable of being irriated. 2. Very susceptible of anger or passion; easily inflamed or exasperated; as,
• 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.
• CAPTIOUSLY
  In a captious manner.
• PEEVISHLY
  In a peevish manner. Shak.
• 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.
• IMPATIENT
  1. Not patient; not bearing with composure; intolerant; uneasy; fretful; restless, because of pain, delay, or opposition; eager for change, or for something expected; hasty; passionate; -- often followed by at, for, of, and under. A violent,
• FRACTIOUS
  Apt to break out into a passion; apt to scold; cross; snappish; ugly; unruly; as, a fractious man; a fractious horse. Syn. -- Snappish; peevish; waspish; cross; irritable; perverse; pettish. -- Frac"tious*ly, v. -- Frac"tious*ness, n.
• IMPATIENTLY
  In an impatient manner.
• 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.
• TESTY
  Fretful; peevish; petulant; easily irritated. Must I observe you must I stand and crouch Under your testy humor Shak. I was displeased with myself; I was testy. Latimer. (more info) obstinate, headstrong, F. têtu, fr. OF. teste the head, F. tête.
• CAPTIOUS
  1. Art to catch at faults; disposed to find fault or to cavil; eager to object; difficult to please. A captius and suspicious. Stillingfleet. I am sensible I have not disposed my materials to adbide the test of a captious controversy. Bwike. 2.
• ILL-NATURED
  1. Of habitual bad temper; peevish; fractious; cross; crabbed; surly; as, an ill-natured person. 2. Dictated by, or indicating, ill nature; spiteful. "The ill-natured task refuse." Addison. 3. Intractable; not yielding to culture. "Ill-natured
• INIRRITABLE
  Not irritable; esp. , incapable of being stimulated to action, as a muscle. -- In*ir`ri*ta*bil"i*ty, n.
• ANTISPLENETIC
  Good as a remedy against disease of the spleen. -- n.