Informal . grouchy; ill-natured; irritable; peevish.

adjective

amiable , good-humored , good-natured , happy , pleasant , sweet

adjective

acid , acrid , acrimonious , awkward , bad-tempered , blunt , brusque , captious , choleric , chuffy , churlish , crabbed , cranky , cross , crotchety , crusty , cynical , difficult , dour , fretful , gloomy , glum , grouchy , harsh , huffy , ill-humored , ill-tempered , irascible , misanthropic , morose , mumpish , nasty-tempered , peevish , perverse , petulant , prickly , saturnine , snappish , sour , splenetic , sulky , sullen , surly , tart , testy , tough , trying , unsociable , cantankerous , disagreeable , grumpy , irritable , nasty , querulous , snappy , ugly , waspish , acerbic , acidulent , acidulous , bitter , rebarbative , vinegary