- irritability, crossness, fretfulness, fussiness, peevishness, petulance, choler - an irritable petulant feeling
--1 is a kind of ill humor, ill humour, distemper
--1 has particulars: testiness, touchiness, tetchiness; pet - crabbiness, crabbedness, crossness - a disposition to be ill tempered
--2 is a kind of ill nature