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Definition: Petulance |
PetulanceNoun1. An irritable petulant feeling. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "petulance" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Synonyms: PetulanceSynonyms: choler (n), crossness (n), fretfulness (n), fussiness (n), irritability (n), peevishness (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Insolence | Impertinence; sauciness; Adjective: flippancy, dicacity, petulance, procacity, bluster; swagger, swaggering; Verb: bounce; terrorism. |
Irascibility | Noun: irascibility, irascibleness, temper; crossness; Adjective: susceptibility, procacity, petulance, irritability, tartness, acerbity, protervity; pugnacity; (contentiousness). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Petulance |
| English words defined with "petulance": pet, Procacity, Protervity. (references) |
| "Petulance" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Petulance" is used about 40 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 40 | 54,274 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
petulance | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "petulance"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | zemërim (anger, bitterness, chafe, conniption, Dander, dudgeon, effervescence, effervescency, exasperation, excitement, huff, impatience, indignation, ire, Paddy, paddywhack, passion, rage, rasp, spite, wax, wrath), të qenët idhnak (petulancy), qaravitje (cavil, nagging, petulancy, snivel, whimper), irritueshmëri (petulancy), gërnjosje (petulancy). (various references) | |
Arabic | مشاكسة (dispute, grumpiness, quarrel, wrangle), نزق (cranky, cross, irritable, mad, pernickety, pettiness, quick, rattle-brained, ratty, scatter-brain, snippy, testy, tetchy, touchiness), سرعة غضب, النكد (bile, spleen), رداءة الطبع, شكاسة (perversity). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | сприхавост (hastiness, irish, irritability, testiness), раздразнителност (ill humor, ill humour, impatience, inflammability, irascibility, irritability, nerves, temper), лошо настроение (doldrums, grouch, hump, ill humor, ill humour, mumps, pet, spleen). (various references) | |
Czech | urážlivost, nevrlost (glumness, grumpiness, sourness, spleen, sulk, surliness), nedùtklivost (distemper, sensitivity, touchiness). (various references) | |
Finnish | kärtyisyys (crossness). (various references) | |
French | mauvaise humeur, maussaderie, irritabilité, irascibilité, humeur grincheux, bile. (various references) | |
German | Gereiztheit (edginess, huffiness, irritability, irritation, peevishness, temper, testiness, touchiness). (various references) | |
Greek | έξαψη (dither, excitement, flush, fluster, rampage, spurt, tizzy, twitter), παραφορά (furor, passion, transport). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ר'ז ות (anger, bad temper, choler, irascibility, irritation, temper). (various references) | |
Hungarian | türelmetlenkedés, ingerültség (chafing, fit of pique, fret, ire, irritation, spunk). (various references) | |
Italian | petulanza (impertinence, insolence). (various references) | |
Manx | noi-freihys (perverseness, wilfulness). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | etulancepay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | petulância (cockiness, forwardness, mouth, tantrum), mau humor (bad mood, bile, choler, crossness, fretfulness, gripe, grouch, grumble, huff, hump, miff), irritabilidade (crustiness, excitability, irascibility, touchiness), impertinência (arrogance, assumingness, cantankerousness, caprice, impertinence, presumption, waspishness, whim), impaciência (eagerness, phew). (various references) | |
Romanian | nerãbdare (anxiety, eagerness, hastiness, impatience), iritabilitate (bile, excitability, irritability, ticklishness), caracter capricios. (various references) | |
Russian | раздражение (annoyance, exasperation, fret, galling, inflammation, irritation, pique, provocation, rasp, ruffle, senitization, vexation), раздражительность (crossness, crustiness, grumpiness, impatience, irascibility, irritability, peevishness, petulancy, soreness, temper, testiness, touchiness). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | mrzovoljnost, drskost (arrogance, audaciousness, brash, effrontery, forwardness, impertinence, impudence, lip, nerve, presumption, temerity). (various references) | |
Spanish | mal humor (bad mood, bad temper, crossness, fretfulness, grouch, grouchiness, grumpiness, ill humor, ill humour, moodiness, peeve, peevishness, spleen, surliness), irritabilidad (irritability, snappishness). (various references) | |
Swedish | retlighet (fret, irritability), kinkighet (fastidiousness), kink (kink), grinighet. (various references) | |
Turkish | huysuzluk (acerbity, acrimony, bad temper, bile, biliousness, crankiness, crossness, cussedness, devilry, disagreeableness, distemper, fractiousness, grouch, grouchiness, huff, moodiness, pettishness, sourness, spleen, surliness, temper, vice, viciousness), alınganlık (pettishness, sensibility, sensitiveness, sensitivity, squeamishness, stuffiness, susceptibility, testiness, touchiness), aksilik (awkwardness, bile, contrariety, contrariness, contretemps, crossness, dourness, fractiousness, gruffness, hardness, hitch, ill luck, misadventure, misfortune, mishap, moodiness, moods, perversity, recalcitrance, reverse, rotten luck, setback, slip, slip up, sullenness, surliness, tantrum, testiness, trouble, vexatiousness), çabuk kızma (inflammability). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | роздратування (anger, annoyance, chafe, disgust, distemper, exacerbation, exasperation, fret, harass, inflammation, irritation, needle, peeve, petulancy, pique, provocation, teen), нетерплячість (intolerance, petulancy). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tính nóng nảy (headiness, nervosity, nervousness), tính hay hờn mát, tính hay dằn dỗi (peevishness, pettishness). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "petulance": petulances. (additional references) | |
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"Petulance" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Nebulance, patulin, petclance, petillance, pettulian, petulances, petulence, Portulaca. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "petulance" (pronounced pe"khuluns) |
| 5 | -u l u n s | ambivalence, ambulance, benevolence, equivalence, excellence, insolence, nonviolence, opulence, pestilence, prevalence, turbulence, vigilance, violence, virulence. |
| 4 | -l u n s | balance, condolence, counterbalance, imbalance, parlance, resemblance, semblance, silence, surveillance, unbalance, Valence. |
| 3 | -u n s | absence, abstinence, abundance, acceptance, accordance, abeyance, abhorrence, acquaintance, acquiescence, adherence, admirations, admittance, adolescence, affluence, allegiance, alliance, allowance, ambiance, ambience, annoyance, appearance, appliance, arrogance, ascendance, assistance, assurance, attendance, audience, avoidance, belligerence, beneficence, bioscience, brilliance, cadence, capacitance, chrominance, circumference, clairvoyance, Clarence, clearance, coexistence, cognizance, coherence, coincidence, coinsurance, comeuppance, competence, compliance, concurrence, conference, confidence, confluence, conformance, congruence, connivance, conscience, consequence, consistence, continuance, contrivance, convalescence, convenience, convergence, conveyance, correspondence, countenance, counterintelligence, credence, dalliance, decadence, Defeasance, deference, defiance, deliverance, dependence, deterrence, deviance, difference, diligence, disallowance, disappearance, discontinuance, disobedience, dissidence, dissonance, distance, disturbance, divergence, dominance, ebullience, elegance, eloquence, emergence, eminence, endurance, entrance, essence, evanescence, evidence, existence, expedience, experience, extravagance, exuberance, flamboyance, Florence, forbearance, fragrance, furtherance, governance, grievance, guidance, hindrance, ignorance, immanence, imminence, impatience, impedance, importance, impotence, imprudence, inadvertence, incidence, incoherence, incompetence, incontinence, inconvenience, independence, indifference, inductance, indulgence, inexperience, inference, influence, inheritance, innocence, insignificance, insistence, instance, insurance, intelligence, interdependence, interference, intolerance, intransigence, invariance, irrelevance, irreverence, issuance, jurisprudence, licence, license, luminance, luminescence, maintenance, malfeasance, negligence, neuroscience, noncompliance, noninterference, nuisance, obedience, observance, obsolescence, occurrence, omnipotence, omnipresence, ordinance, Ordnance, overabundance, overconfidence, overdependence, overreliance, patience, penance, performance, permanence, persecutions, perseverance, persistence, phosphorescence, pittance, precedence, predominance, preeminence, preference, preponderance, prescience, presence, prominence, protuberance, provenance, Providence, province, prudence, pseudoscience, quintessence, radiance, reappearance, reassurance, recalcitrance, recognizance, reconnaissance, recurrence, reemergence, reference, reinspections, reinsurance, relevance, reliance, reluctance, remembrance, reminiscence, remittance, repentance, residence, resilience, resistance, resonance, resurgence, reticence, reverence, riddance, science, senescence, sentence, sequence, severance, significance, submergence, subservience, subsidence, subsistence, substance, sustenance, teleconference, temperance, tolerance, transcendence, transference, transience, utterance, variance, vehemence, vengeance, videoconference. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-l-n-p-t-u" | |
-1 letter: centuple, nucleate, peculate, pentacle. | |
-2 letters: capelet, cleanup, cuneate, epaulet. | |
-3 letters: cantle, caplet, cental, cetane, culpae, cuneal, eluant, eluate, eluent, enlace, eupnea, lacune, lancet, lateen, launce, lucent, lunate, peanut, pecten, pencel, penult, placet, planet, platen, teacup, tenace, unlace. | |
-4 letters: acute, anele, caput, centu, clapt, clean, cleat, clepe, clept, culet, culpa, cupel, eaten, eclat, elate, elect. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-l-n-p-t-u" | |
+1 letter: petulances. | |
+2 letters: counterplea, encapsulate, pedunculate, petulancies. | |
+3 letters: counterpleas, encapsulated, encapsulates, inoperculate, outplacement, pedunculated, unacceptable. | |
+4 letters: conceptualise, conceptualize, counterplayer, inoperculates, outplacements, unexceptional, unpredictable, unrespectable. | |
+5 letters: conceptualised, conceptualises, conceptualized, conceptualizer, conceptualizes, counterexample, counterplayers, nonspeculative, percutaneously, ultracompetent, uncontemplated, unpredictables. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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