querulous
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Din dicționarul The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Querulous \Quer"u*lous\, a. [L. querulus and querulosus, fr.
queri to complain. Cf. Cry, v., Quarrel a brawl,
Quarrelous.]
1. Given to quarreling; quarrelsome. [Obs.] --land.
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2. Apt to find fault; habitually complaining; disposed to
murmur; as, a querulous man or people.
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Enmity can hardly be more annoying that querulous,
jealous, exacting fondness. --Macaulay.
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3. Expressing complaint; fretful; whining; as, a querulous
tone of voice.
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Syn: Complaining; bewailing; lamenting; whining; mourning;
murmuring; discontented; dissatisfied.
[1913 Webster] -- Quer"u*lous*ly, adv. --
Quer"u*lous*ness, n.
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Din dicționarul WordNet (r) 2.0 :
querulous
adj : habitually complaining; "a whining child" [syn: fretful, whiney,
whining(a), whiny]
Din dicționarul Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
103 Moby Thesaurus words for "querulous":
Jeremianic, annoyed, bad-tempered, beefing, bellyaching, bemoaning,
bitching, blubbering, cantankerous, carping, catty, censorious,
choleric, complaining, complaintful, crabbing, crabby, cranky,
critical, criticizing, croaking, cross, crotchety, crusty, crying,
disappointed, discontented, disgruntled, displeased, dissatisfied,
dyspeptic, envious, faultfinding, finical, finicky, fractious,
fretful, fussy, griping, grouchy, grousing, growling, grumbling,
grumpy, howling, huffy, hypercritical, ill-humored, ill-natured,
ill-tempered, irascible, irritable, irritated, lamenting,
lamentive, malcontent, malcontented, moanful, mournful, murmuring,
muttering, nagging, naggy, out of humor, peevish, perverse,
pettish, petulant, piqued, plaintive, plangent, puling,
quarrelsome, querulant, rebellious, resentful, restive, restless,
shrewish, snappish, sorrowful, sour, splenetic, sulky, testy,
touchy, ululant, unaccepting, unaccommodating, uneasy, unfulfilled,
ungratified, unhappy, unsatisfied, vixenish, vixenly, wailful,
wailing, waspish, weeping, whimpering, whining, whiny
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