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grouchy
CIDE DICTIONARY
grouchy, adj.
given to complaining or grumbling; prone to show annoyance at slight provocation; irritable. [WordNet 1.5]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
grouchy, adj. (grouchier, grouchiest) colloq. discontented, grumpy.
Derivative
grouchily adv. grouchiness n.
THESAURUS
grouchy
beefing, bellyaching, bitching, complaining, complaintful, crabbing, crabby, cranky, croaking, disappointed, discontented, disgruntled, displeased, dissatisfied, envious, faultfinding, griping, grousing, growling, gruff, grumbling, grumbly, grumpish, grumpy, malcontent, malcontented, murmuring, muttering, out of humor, peevish, petulant, querulant, querulous, rebellious, resentful, restive, restless, sulky, unaccepting, unaccommodating, uneasy, unfulfilled, ungratified, unhappy, unsatisfied, whinyROGET THESAURUS
grouchy
Sullenness
N sullenness, morosity, spleen, churlishness, irascibility, moodiness, perversity, obstinacy, torvity, spinosity, crabbedness, ill temper, bad temper, ill humor, bad humor, sulks, dudgeon, mumps, dumps, doldrums, fit of the sulks, bouderie, black looks, scowl, grouch, huff, sullen, sulky, ill-tempered, ill-humored, ill-affected, ill- disposed, grouty, in an ill temper, in a bad temper, in a shocking temper, in an ill humor, in a bad humor, in a shocking humor, out of temper, out of humor, knaggy, torvous, crusty, crabbed, sour, sour as a crab, surly, moody, spleenish, spleenly, splenetic, cankered, cross, crossgrained, perverse, wayward, humorsome, restiff, restive, cantankerous, intractable, exceptious, sinistrous, deaf to reason, unaccommodating, rusty, froward, cussed, dogged, grumpy, glum, grim, grum, morose, frumpish, in the sulks, out of sorts, scowling, glowering, growling, grouchy, peevish.For further exploring for "grouchy" in Webster Dictionary Online