- 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 - temper, biliousness, irritability, peevishness, pettishness, snappishness, surliness - a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger; "his temper was well known to all his employees"
--2 is a kind of ill nature
--2 has particulars: querulousness