Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
| Kieli | Käännökset |
|---|---|
| espanja | quejica, quejicoso, alaraco, alharaquiento, desazonado, malhumorado |
| hollanti | narrig |
| italia | irritabile, scontroso, malmostoso, scorbutico, piccoso |
| latina | stomachor, mōrōsus |
| ranska | maussade |
| saksa | verdrießlich, gereizt, mürrisch, verdrossen, quengelig |
| suomi | kärttyisä, mariseva, hapan |
| tanska | arrig |
| turkki | kıl |
| unkari | nyűgös, durcás, cvíder |
| venäjä | ворчливый (vortšlivyi), сварливый (svarlivyi) |
Määritelmät
Adjektiivi
- Constantly complaining, especially in a childish way due to insignificant matters; fretful, whiny.
- Quick to become bad-tempered or cross, especially due to insignificant matters; irritable, pettish, petulant.
- (Canada, Northern England, figurative) Of weather: blustery, windy; also, of wind: cold and strong; bitter, sharp.
- Coy, modest.
- Foolish, silly.
- Harmful, injurious; also, mischievous; or malicious, spiteful.
- Impulsive and unpredictable; capricious, fickle.
- Obstinately in the wrong; perverse, stubborn.
- Out of one's mind; mad.
- Of a thing: evoking a feeling of distaste, horror, etc.
- (Northern England) Clever, skilful.
Adverbi
- (obsolete) Synonym of peevishly (“in a peevish manner: whiningly; irritably, petulantly; etc.”).
Esimerkit
- Orleans: What a wretched and peevish fellow is this king of England, to mope with his fat-brained followers so far out of his knowledge!
- [T]he luckless Kitty continued in the parlour repining at her fate in terms as unreasonable as her accent was peevish.
- At first he was quite peevish. "What's the idea," he said, "coming and spoiling a man's beauty-sleep? Get out."
Taivutusmuodot
| Komparatiivi | more peevish |
| Superlatiivi | most peevish |