Thesaurus / bearish
FEEDBACK- barbaric
- churlish
- coarse
- impolite
- rude
- tasteless
- uncivilized
- vulgar
- bad-mannered
- cantankerous
- cloddish
- clodhopping
- clownish
- clumsy
- countrified
- gross
- gruff
- ill-bred
- ill-mannered
- inurbane
- loud
- loutish
- lowbred
- oafish
- ornery
- out of line
- out-of-order
- provincial
- rough
- rustic
- swinish
- uncouth
- ugly
- uncultured
- uneducated
- ungracious
- unpoised
- unpolished
- unrefined
- inhuman
- inhumane
- rude
- savage
- animal
- beastly
- bestial
- brute
- brutish
- carnal
- coarse
- feral
- ferine
- swinish
- unfeeling
- cranky
- dour
- grouchy
- grumpy
- irascible
- prickly
- quarrelsome
- testy
- bad-tempered
- bloody-minded
- captious
- choleric
- contrary
- critical
- cross
- crotchety
- crusty
- disagreeable
- huffy
- ill-humored
- ill-natured
- irritable
- morose
- obstinate
- ornery
- peevish
- perverse
- petulant
- snappish
- sour
- stubborn
- vinegarish
- vinegary
- chunky
- flabby
- plump
- portly
- pudgy
- stout
- ample
- big
- butterball
- buxom
- fat
- fleshy
- full-figured
- hefty
- husky
- pleasingly plump
- plumpish
- podgy
- roly-poly
- rotund
- round
- tubby
- zaftig
- cantankerous
- grouchy
- grumpy
- irascible
- irritable
- ornery
- ugly
- bad-humored
- choleric
- crabby
- cross
- crotchety
- cussed
- disagreeable
- got up on wrong side of bed
- hot-tempered
- ill-humored
- like a bear
- mean
- out of sorts
- perverse
- quick-tempered
- ratty
- snappish
- tetchy
- vinegary
- cantankerous
- crusty
- grouchy
- grumpy
- ornery
- awkward
- bad-tempered
- contrary
- crabby
- cranky
- cross
- cross-grained
- curmudgeonly
- difficult
- disagreeable
- eccentric
- fractious
- irritable
- obstinate
- obstreperous
- odd
- peevish
- queer
- surly
- testy
- unusual
- vinegary
- waspish
- waspy
- demanding
- grim
- intractable
- tough
- troublesome
- argumentative
- boorish
- dark
- fastidious
- finicky
- fractious
- fussy
- hard to please
- impolite
- irritable
- oafish
- obstreperous
- perverse
- picky
- refractory
- rigid
- rude
- tiresome
- trying
- unaccommodating
- unamenable
- blunt
- boisterous
- brusque
- crusty
- dour
- grumpy
- nasty
- offhand
- surly
- abrupt
- boorish
- churlish
- crabbed
- crabby
- crude
- curt
- discourteous
- fierce
- grouchy
- ill-natured
- impolite
- morose
- rough
- saturnine
- short
- snappy
- snippy
- sour
- sullen
- truculent
- uncivil
- ungracious
- unmannerly
- cantankerous
- grumpy
- irascible
- testy
- annoyed
- bad-tempered
- choleric
- crabby
- cross
- crotchety
- grouchy
- moody
- nasty
- quick-tempered
- sharp
- snappy
- sour
- spiteful
- surly
- touchy
- vicious
- cantankerous
- cranky
- feisty
- grouchy
- passionate
- surly
- testy
- uptight
- angry
- bristly
- choleric
- crabbed
- cross
- fractious
- hasty
- hot-tempered
- huffy
- ireful
- irritable
- ogre
- peevish
- petulant
- querulous
- quick-tempered
- short-tempered
- snappish
- thin-skinned
- touchy
- annoyed
- contentious
- exasperated
- fractious
- petulant
- prickly
- resentful
- surly
- testy
- brooding
- cantankerous
- carping
- choleric
- complaining
- crabbed
- cross
- crotchety
- disputatious
- dissatisfied
- dyspeptic
- easily offended
- fiery
- fretful
- fretting
- gloomy
- grouchy
- grumbling
- hasty
- hot
- huffy
- hypercritical
- ill-humored
- irascible
- moody
- morose
- out of humor
- oversensitive
- peevish
- plaintive
- querulous
- quick-tempered
- sensitive
- snappy
- snarling
- tense
- touchy
- bad-mannered
- barbaric
- bungling
- cantankerous
- churlish
- cloddish
- clodhopping
- clownish
- clumsy
- coarse
- dense
- doltish
- gross
- gruff
- ill-bred
- ill-mannered
- impolite
- loud
- oafish
- ornery
- rough
- rude
- rustic
- swinish
- uncivilized
- uncouth
- uncultured
- uneducated
- unmannerly
- unpolished
- unrefined
- vulgar
- bemoaning
- cantankerous
- captious
- carping
- censorious
- complaining
- critical
- cross
- crying
- deploring
- discontented
- dissatisfied
- edgy
- fault-finding
- fretful
- grousing
- grumbling
- grumbly
- huffy
- irritable
- lamenting
- out of sorts
- peevish
- petulant
- plaintive
- scrappy
- snappy
- sour
- testy
- thin-skinned
- touchy
- uptight
- wailing
- waspish
- waspy
- whimpering
- whining
- whiny
- coarse
- cruel
- hard
- harsh
- nasty
- raw
- tough
- unpleasant
- unpolished
- violent
- bluff
- blunt
- brief
- crude
- extreme
- gross
- mean
- rowdy
- sharp
- short
- boisterous
- boorish
- brusque
- churlish
- crass
- crusty
- curt
- discourteous
- drastic
- hairy
- ill-mannered
- improper
- inconsiderate
- indecorous
- indelicate
- inelegant
- loud
- loutish
- severe
- unceremonious
- uncivil
- uncouth
- uncultivated
- uncultured
- unfeeling
- ungracious
- unjust
- unmannerly
- unrefined
- untutored
- vulgar
- delicate
- gentle
- kind
- mannerly
- nice
- pleasant
- polished
- polite
- refined
- smooth
- sophisticated
- charming
- cultured
- agreeable
- clean
- delicate
- easy
- facile
- gentle
- good
- great
- kind
- merciful
- mild
- moral
- nice
- peaceful
- pleasant
- pleasing
- polite
- refined
- smooth
- soft
- sophisticated
- sympathetic
- wonderful
- calm
- lengthy
- long
- moderate
- accurate
- complete
- courteous
- definite
- even
- level
- polished
- precise
- regular
- temperate
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START THE QUIZ How to use bearish in a sentence
He was this big teddy bearish kind of guy and a lot like Billy.
'DON'T GIVE UP HOPE.' A MOTHER ON THE PAIN OF LOSING HER SON TO OPIOIDS AND LEARNING TO FIND HER VOICEPAUL MOAKLEYMAY 7, 2021TIMEAs its initial surge of new user acquisition slows—in March, new user growth dropped 72% from its February high—some prognosticators are already bearish on its future.
ON CLUBHOUSE, A GLOBAL JEWISH COMMUNITY TAKES ROOTRAISA BRUNERMAY 6, 2021TIMELast week, Andrew Left, the famed short-seller behind Citron Research known for his market-moving reports, said he would stop publishing bearish calls and “pivot” to just bullish recommendations, citing “the changing dynamics in the market.”
WHY THE GAMESTOP YOLO TRADE HAS ME BULLISHJEN WIECZNERFEBRUARY 3, 2021FORTUNEThe week is off to a bearish start for cryptocurrency as the price of Bitcoin fell nearly $10,000 from its Friday high of nearly $42,000, temporarily ending an unprecedented rally.
BITCOIN TUMBLES 20% IN WORST CRASH SINCE MARCHJEFF ROBERTSJANUARY 11, 2021FORTUNEI’ve got some indicators showing me very strong bullish signs, I’ve got some showing me very strong bearish signs, and some that are showing things they typically don’t show unless there’s high volatility expected.
THE S&P 500 COULD ‘EASILY’ DIP INTO A CORRECTION BEFORE THE ELECTION ON TUESDAYANNE SRADERSOCTOBER 30, 2020FORTUNEThe biggest ETF tracking the index lost money as the fastest rate since 2000 on Friday, while large speculators boosted the net bearish positions in Nasdaq futures to a 12-year high.
MORGAN STANLEY ANALYST WARNS TECH SELLOFF COULD STILL HAVE FURTHER TO GOKDUNN6SEPTEMBER 22, 2020FORTUNE"A rough, bearish fellow," William called him, who had won the name of the "Bull of Valmont" by his headlong courage.
GOD WILLS IT!WILLIAM STEARNS DAVISIt is lucky for mamma that, in his green state, he is courtly instead of bearish.'
THE HEIR OF REDCLYFFECHARLOTTE M. YONGEIt is a bearish task to quarrel with that purest of all human affections—that perfecting touch to a woman's life—a mother's love.
IDLE THOUGHTS OF AN IDLE FELLOWJEROME K. JEROMEMorello was the rough, bearish and hairy-looking monster, cruel as a fiend, and always unshaven.
THE BARREL MYSTERYWILLIAM J. (WILLIAM JAMES) FLYNNWORDS RELATED TO BEARISH
- bad-mannered
- barbaric
- bearish
- cantankerous
- churlish
- cloddish
- clodhopping
- clownish
- clumsy
- coarse
- countrified
- gross
- gruff
- ill-bred
- ill-mannered
- impolite
- inurbane
- loud
- loutish
- lowbred
- oafish
- ornery
- out of line
- out-of-order
- provincial
- rough
- rude
- rustic
- swinish
- tasteless
- ugly
- uncivilized
- uncouth
- uncultured
- uneducated
- ungracious
- unpoised
- unpolished
- unrefined
- vulgar
- bad-tempered
- bearish
- bloody-minded
- captious
- choleric
- contrary
- cranky
- critical
- cross
- crotchety
- crusty
- disagreeable
- dour
- grouchy
- grumpy
- huffy
- ill-humored
- ill-natured
- irascible
- irritable
- morose
- obstinate
- ornery
- peevish
- perverse
- petulant
- prickly
- quarrelsome
- snappish
- sour
- stubborn
- testy
- vinegarish
- vinegary
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.