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- Dictionarypettish/ˈpɛtɪʃ/
adjective
- 1. (of a person or their behaviour) childishly bad-tempered and petulant: "he comes across in his journal entries as spoiled and pettish"
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PETTISH definition: 1. showing anger and behaving impatiently, especially about things that are not very important: 2…. Learn more.
Examples of pettish in a Sentence. a pettish baby who always seemed to be crying. Recent Examples on the Web At best, Harsin is a pettish version of Michael Scott at Dunder Mifflin, a poor manager of people selling reams of paper out of an office building at the dawn of our digital age.
Pettish definition: petulantly peevish. See examples of PETTISH used in a sentence.
If you do nothing but complain in the emails you write your grandparents — about the weather, your friends, your family, and what you had for lunch — they may think of you as pettish. Pettish people are irritable and petulant.
noun. Word origin. < pet 2 + -ish. Word Frequency. pettish in American English. (ˈpetɪʃ) adjective. petulantly peevish. a pettish refusal. Most material © 2005, 1997, 1991 by Penguin Random House LLC.
Definition of pettish adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
pettish - easily irritated or annoyed; "an incorrigibly fractious young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen". irritable, peevish, petulant, techy, testy, tetchy, scratchy, nettlesome, peckish, cranky, fractious. ill-natured - having an irritable and unpleasant disposition.
