Petulant

Adjective

 * 1) childishly irritable.

Adverbs for Petulant
unusually; abnormally; feverishly; nervously; hysterically; fretfully; wantonly; mischievously; crossly; captiously; habitually; naturally; strangely; oddly; intolerably; inexcusably; curiously; incorrigibly; disagreeably; unpleasantly; obnoxiously; hatefully; wistfully; whiningly.

Thesaurus
pettish, plaintive, plangent, puling, querulant, querulous, quirky, rebellious, resentful, restive, restless, shrewish, snappish, sorrowful, sour, splenetic, sulky, temperamental, testy, ululant, unaccepting, unaccommodating, uneasy, unfulfilled, ungratified, unhappy, unreasonable, unrestrained, unsatisfied, vagarious, vagrant, vixenish, vixenly, wailful, wanton, waspish, wayward, whimpering, whimsical, whining, whiny, Jeremianic, arbitrary, bad-tempered, beefing, bellyaching, bilious, bitching, cantankerous, capricious, captious, catty, choleric, complaining, complaintful, crabbed, crabbing, crabby, cranky, croaking, cross, crotchety, disappointed, discontented, disgruntled, displeased, dissatisfied, envious, fanciful, fantasied, fantastic, faultfinding, flaky, fractious, freakish, fretful, griping, grouchy, grousing, growling, grumbling, grumpy, harebrained, howling, huffish, huffy, humorsome, ill-humored, ill-tempered, impatient, irascible, irritable, kinky, lamentive, maggoty, malcontent, malcontented, moanful, moody, motiveless, mournful, murmuring, muttering, nagging, naggy, notional, out of humor, peevish, perverse,

Etymology
From <  petulans, akin to petere:.

Synonyms

 * huffy
 * snappish
 * irritable
 * grouchy
 * bad-tempered
 * ill-tempered

Antonyms

 * easygoing

Translations

 * Chinese: 易怒 (yì nù)
 * Czech: popudlivý
 * Finnish: kiukutteleva


 * German:, , nervös
 * Norwegian:, , ,
 * Russian: