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Definition: Pettishness |
PettishnessNoun1. A disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger; "his temper was well known to all his employees". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "pettishness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references) |
Synonyms: PettishnessSynonyms: biliousness (n), irritability (n), peevishness (n), snappishness (n), surliness (n), temper (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Pettishness |
| English words defined with "pettishness": Petulancy ♦ Tift. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "pettishness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Empfindlichkeit (brittleness, delicateness, huffiness, selectivity, sensibility, sensitiveness, sensitivity, sharpness, tenderness, touchiness), bockige art. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | δυστροπία (biliousness, crabbedness, crustiness, grouchiness, moroseness, orneriness, peevishness, perversity, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, surliness, testiness, waspishness, waywardness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | smorigys. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ettishnesspay supãrare (affliction, anger, annoyance, bitterness, burden, care, chafe, cloud, cross, damage, Dander, fury, grief, harm, irritation, mood, moroseness, mumps, pain, peevishness, pet, pique, rage, Ruth, sadness, sorrow, spite, spunk, suffering, sulk, trouble, vexation), iritare (chafe, irritation, rasping, spunk). (various references) обидчивость (touchiness). (various references) moit (pride, sulkiness). (various references) huysuzluk (acerbity, acrimony, bad temper, bile, biliousness, crankiness, crossness, cussedness, devilry, disagreeableness, distemper, fractiousness, grouch, grouchiness, huff, moodiness, petulance, sourness, spleen, surliness, temper, vice, viciousness), hırçınlık (acrimony, bad temper, gruffness, obstinacy, pugnacity, sourness), alınganlık (petulance, sensibility, sensitiveness, sensitivity, squeamishness, stuffiness, susceptibility, testiness, touchiness). (various references) tính hay dằn dỗi (peevishness, petulance), tính hay bực tức, tính cau có, tính cáu kỉnh (huffishness, querulousness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "pettishness": pettishnesses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-h-i-n-p-s-s-s-t-t" | |
-2 letters: hipnesses, pettiness, testiness. | |
-3 letters: epithets, esthesis, hessites, pestiest, sestines, steepish. | |
-4 letters: epithet, hessite, hipness, insteps, penises, petites, pettish, septets, sestets, sestine, sithens, speises, spenses, sphenes, spinets, tensest, theines, theists, tsetses. | |
-5 letters: espies, heists, hisses, insets, instep, nesses, peises, petite, pishes, pisses, pistes, seines, seises, senses, sepses, sepsis, septet, sestet, sheens, sheets, shiest, shines, shists. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-h-i-n-p-s-s-s-t-t" | |
+2 letters: pettishnesses, stephanotises, uptightnesses. | |
+4 letters: photosensitizes. | |
+5 letters: photosensitizers, photosynthesizes. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 65 74 74 69 73 68 6E 65 73 73 |
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