illegible
adjective. unreadable
irritable
adjective. bad-tempered, crabby
- annoyed
- bearish
- brooding
- cantankerous
- carping
- choleric
- complaining
- contentious
- crabbed
- cross
- crotchety
- disputatious
- dissatisfied
- dyspeptic
- easily offended
- exasperated
- fiery
- fractious
- fretful
- fretting
- gloomy
- grouchy
- grumbling
- hasty
- hot
- huffy
- hypercritical
- ill-humored
- irascible
- moody
- morose
- out of humor
- oversensitive
- peevish
- petulant
- plaintive
- prickly
- querulous
- quick-tempered
- resentful
- sensitive
- snappy
- snarling
- surly
- tense
- testy
- touchy
moody
adjective. crabby, temperamental
- angry
- cantankerous
- capricious
- changeable
- crabbed
- crestfallen
- cross
- dismal
- doleful
- dour
- down in the dumps
- down in the mouth
- downcast
- erratic
- fickle
- fitful
- flighty
- frowning
- gloomy
- glum
- huffy
- ill-humored
- ill-tempered
- impulsive
- in a huff
- in the doldrums
- introspective
- irascible
- irritable
- lugubrious
- melancholy
- mercurial
- miserable
- moping
- morose
- offended
- out of sorts
- pensive
- petulant
- piqued
- sad
- saturnine
- short-tempered
- splenetic
- sulky
- sullen
- testy
- touchy
more complex
adjective. difficult to understand
- Daedalean
- Gordian
- abstruse
- bewildering
- byzantine
- circuitous
- complicated
- confused
- convoluted
- crabbed
- cryptic
- discursive
- disordered
- disturbing
- enigmatic
- entangled
- excursive
- hidden
- impenetrable
- inscrutable
- interwoven
- intricate
- involved
- jumbled
- knotted
- knotty
- labyrinthine
- mazy
- meandering
- mingled
- mixed
- muddled
- obscure
- paradoxical
- perplexing
- puzzling
- rambling
- recondite
- round-about
- sinuous
- snarled
- sophisticated
- tangled
- tortuous
- undecipherable
- unfathomable
- winding
morose
adjective. depressed, pessimistic
- acrimonious
- blue
- brusque
- cantankerous
- choleric
- churlish
- crabbed
- crabby
- cranky
- cross
- dolorous
- dour
- down
- down in the dumps
- down in the mouth
- frowning
- gloomy
- glum
- grouchy
- gruff
- harsh
- having blue devils
- having the blahs
- ill-humored
- ill-tempered
- in a bad mood
- in a blue funk
- irritable
- low
- melancholy
- moody
- moping
- mournful
- perverse
- perversive
- sad
- saturnine
- singing the blues
- snappish
- sour
- splenetic
- sulky
- sullen
- surly
- taciturn
- testy
- troubled
- ugly
peevish
adjective. irritable, testy
- acrimonious
- angry
- bad-tempered
- cantankerous
- captious
- carping
- caviling
- childish
- churlish
- complaining
- crabbed
- cranky
- critical
- cross
- crotchety
- crusty
- cussed
- fault-finding
- fractious
- fretful
- fretting
- grouchy
- grousing
- growling
- grumpy
- huffy
- ill-natured
- mean
- morose
- obstinate
- ogre
- ornery
- out-of-sorts
- pertinacious
- petulant
- querulous
- short-tempered
- snappy
- splenetic
- sulky
- sullen
- surly
- tetchy
- touchy
- ugly
- waspish
- waspy
- whining
rude
adjective. disrespectful, rough
- abrupt
- abusive
- bad-mannered
- barbarian
- barbaric
- barbarous
- blunt
- boorish
- brusque
- brutish
- cheeky
- churlish
- coarse
- crabbed
- crude
- curt
- discourteous
- graceless
- gross
- gruff
- ignorant
- illiterate
- impertinent
- impolite
- impudent
- inconsiderate
- insolent
- insulting
- intrusive
- loutish
- low
- obscene
- offhand
- peremptory
- raw
- savage
- scurrilous
- short
- surly
- uncivil
- uncivilized
- uncouth
- uncultured
- uneducated
- ungracious
- unmannerly
- unpolished
- unrefined
- vulgar
- wild
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