Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
| afterburn | a period of lingering anger, fear or bitterness that follows a painful or traumatic event |
| anger | wrath; (verb) to make angry |
| angerless | without anger. |
| angerly | (Arch.) angrily. |
| angrily | (Adv.) ANGRY, having anger. |
| angriness | the quality of being angry, or of being inclined to anger. |
| angry | having anger (noun) an angry person |
| annoy | to be troublesome to. |
| annoyance | something that annoys. |
| annoyer | one who annoys. |
| annoying | causing annoyance. |
| annoyingly | (Adv.) ANNOYING. |
| arsey | (Aust. sl.) aggressive, irritable. |
| arsy | (Aust. sl.) aggressive, irritable. |
| badass | touchy, difficult, intimidating; (noun) a touchy person. |
| badassed | touchy, difficult, intimidating. |
| bilious | ill-tempered; very unpleasant. |
| biliously | (Adv.) BILIOUS, ill-tempered. |
| bitchily | (Adv.) BITCHY, bad-tempered. |
| bitchiness | the state of being bitchy. |
| bitchy | bad-tempered. |
| bother | trouble, annoyance; (verb) to annoy. |
| bouderie | (Fr.) a pouting, sulking. |
| brainish | (Shakesp.) hotheaded, furious. |
| cantankerous | difficult or irritating to deal with. |
| cantankerously | (Adv.) CANTANKEROUS, difficult or irritating to deal with. |
| carnaptious | (Scots) bad-tempered; cantankerous. |
| chagrin | (Fr.) disappointment, annoyance; vexation; (verb) to vex, annoy. |
| chippiness | the state of being chippy, irritable. |
| choler | anger, irascibility. |
| choleric | easily irritated or angered; hot-tempered. |
| cholerically | (Adv.) CHOLERIC, easily angered. |
| cholericly | (Adv.) CHOLERIC, full of choler. |
| conniption | (US sl.) a fit of rage or hysteria; a tantrum. |
| crabbed | ill-natured, perverse. |
| crabbedly | (Adv.) CRABBED, ill-natured, perverse. |
| crabbily | (Adv.) CRABBY, ill-tempered. |
| crabbiness | the state of being crabby. |
| crabbit | bad-tempered, irritable. |
| crabby | ill-tempered. |
| crankily | (Adv.) CRANKY, cantankerous. |
| crankiness | the state of being cranky, cantankerous. |
| crankish | bad tempered. |
| crankous | cranky. |
| cranky | cantankerous. |
| crossish | somewhat cross. |
| crossly | (Adv.) CROSS, ill-tempered. |
| crossness | the state of being cross. |
| crosspatch | a bad-tempered person. |
| crotcheted | having crotchets, whimsical, short-tempered. |
| crotcheteer | a crotchety person. |
| crotchetiness | the state of being crotchety. |
| crotchety | bad-tempered. |
| curnaptious | (Scots) bad-tempered; cantankerous. |
| currish | like a cur: rude or bad-tempered. |
| currishly | in a rude or bad-tempered way. |
| currishness | being like a cur: rude or bad-tempered. |
| despiteous | (Obs.) feeling or showing despite. |
| despiteously | (Adv.) DESPITEOUS, feeling or showing despite. |
| dort | (Scots) to sulk. |
| dortiness | the state of being dorty, pettish, sulky. |
| dorty | (Scots) pettish, sulky. |
| emboil | (Obs.) to burn with anger. |
| enrage | to make very angry. |
| enragedly | (Adv.) ENRAGED, in a rage. |
| enragement | the act of enraging or state of being enraged. |
| enranckle | (Spenser) to enrage. |
| exasperate | to excite the anger of. |
| exasperating | exciting the anger of. |
| exasperatingly | (Adv.) EXASPERATING. |
| exasperation | the state of being exasperated. |
| exasperator | one who exasperates. |
| fash | (Scots) to vex, to annoy, to trouble. |
| fashious | troublesome, vexatious. |
| fashiousness | the state of being fashious, troublesome. |
| flakily | (Adv.) FLAKY, in flakes. |
| flaky | in flakes (noun) an angry outburst, a fit of temper |
| foulie | (Aust. sl.) a bad mood. |
| frabbit | (Dial.) peevish. |
| fractious | troublesome, irritable. |
| fractiously | (Adv.) FRACTIOUS, troublesome, irritable. |
| fractiousness | the state of being fractious. |
| frampal | (Scott) peevish, intractable. |
| frampold | (Obs.) peevish, intractable. |
| franzy | (Dial.) cross, peevish. |
| fratchety | quarrelsome. |
| fratching | quarrelsome. |
| fratchy | quarrelsome. |
| freakout | a strong fit of anger, anxiety etc. |
| fretful | disposed to fret; ill-humored. |
| fretfully | (Adv.) FRETFUL, disposed to fret. |
| fretsome | fretful. |
| frowny | showing a frown. |
| fumingly | (Adv.) FUMING, very angry. |
| furibund | (Obs.) raging. |
| furious | extremely angry. |
| furiously | (Adv.) FURIOUS, extremely angry. |
| furiousness | the state of being furious. |
| furor | an outburst of public indignation. |
| furore | (Ital.) an outburst of public indignation. |
| fury | violent anger. |
| girnie | ill-tempered, peevish. |
| glower | to look or stare with sullen annoyance or anger. |
| grame | (Obs.) anger, wrath. |
| grouchily | (Adv.) GROUCHY, grumpy. |
| grouchiness | the state of being grouchy. |
| grouchy | grumpy. |
| grouty | sulky. |
| grumness | the quality of being grum, glum, morose. |
| hangry | irritable as a result of feeling hungry. |
| hatter | one who makes hats; (verb) to trouble, annoy. |
| hissy | like a tantrum (noun) a tantrum |
| hoha | (Maori) bored, annoyed. |
| huffily | (Adv.) HUFFY, given to huff, touchy. |
| huffiness | the state of being huffy. |
| huffish | given to huff, touchy. |
| huffishly | (Adv.) HUFFISH, given to huff, touchy. |
| huffishness | the state of being huffish. |
| huffy | given to huff, touchy. |
| incense | to make very angry. |
| incensement | the act of incensing, making angry. |
| indignant | feeling or showing justifiable anger. |
| indignantly | (Adv.) INDIGNANT, feeling or showing justifiable anger. |
| indignation | anger aroused by something unjust, unworthy, or mean. |
| infuriate | enraged (verb) to make furious |
| infuriately | (Adv.) INFURIATE, enraged. |
| infuriatingly | (Adv.) INFURIATING. |
| infuriation | the act of infuriating. |
| iracund | easily provoked, quick-tempered, irascible. |
| iracundity | the state of being iracund, easily angered. |
| iracundulous | somewhat inclined to become angry. |
| irascible | easily angered, irritable. |
| irascibleness | the state of being irascible. |
| irascibly | (Adv.) IRASCIBLE, easily angered. |
| irate | angry. |
| irately | (Adv.) IRATE, angry. |
| irateness | the state of being irate. |
| ire | anger; (verb) to anger. |
| ireful | full of ire; angry. |
| irefully | (Adv.) IREFUL, full of ire. |
| irefulness | wrathfulness. |
| ireless | without ire. |
| irk | to annoy or weary. |
| irritable | easily provoked. |
| irritableness | the state of being irritable. |
| irritably | (Adv.) IRRITABLE, easily provoked. |
| irritatedly | (Adv.) IRRITATED. |
| jadish | like a jade, vicious. |
| jadishly | (Adv.) JADISH, vicious, resembling a jade. |
| kippage | (Scots) a state of displeasure or anger. |
| malgre | (Arch.) in spite of; (verb) to show spite towards. |
| maulgre | (Arch.) in spite of; (verb) to show spite towards. |
| miffily | (Adv.) MIFFY, quick to take offence. |
| miffiness | the state of being miffy, quick to take offence. |
| miffy | quick to take offence. |
| mifty | (Obs.) quick to take offence. |
| molestful | troublesome, vexatious. |
| naggy | irritable; touchy. |
| narky | irritable. |
| nattery | peevish > NATTERIER, NATTERIEST. |
| nettlesome | causing vexation. |
| nowty | bad-tempered. |
| noyance | (Spenser) annoyance. |
| noysome | (Obs.) noisome, hurtful. |
| obtrude | to thrust (oneself) forward in an annoying way. |
| onery | (Coll.) cantankerous. |
| orneriness | the state of being ornery. |
| ornery | (Coll.) cantankerous. |
| outrage | to arouse anger or resentment in. |
| outrave | to surpass in raving. |
| outsulk | to sulk more than. |
| peeve | to irritate. |
| peevish | irritable; fretful, complaining. |
| peevishly | (Adv.) PEEVISH, fretful. |
| peevishness | the state of being peevish. |
| pesterment | the act of pestering, or the state of being pestered. |
| pettedly | (Adv.) PETTED, in a pet, sulky, offended. |
| pettish | sulky, petulant. |
| pettishly | (Adv.) PETTISH, sulky, petulant. |
| petulance | peevish impatience. |
| petulancy | peevish impatience. |
| petulant | peevish. |
| petulantly | (Adv.) PETULANT, peevish. |
| philomathic | loving learning. |
| philomathical | loving learning. |
| pisser | something that pisses one off. |
| plaguesome | (Coll.) troublesome, annoying. |
| protervity | peevishness. |
| radge | (Scots) angry, obstreperous; lustful (noun) a bad temper, a rage |
| rage | violent anger; (verb) to act or speak with rage. |
| rageful | full of rage; expressing rage. |
| rager | one who rages. |
| ragingly | (Adv.) RAGING, furious. |
| ranter | one who rants. |
| ravingly | (Adv.) RAVING, mad. |
| resent | to feel or express annoyance or ill will at. |
| resentingly | (Adv.) RESENTING. |
| resentment | a feeling of indignant displeasure or persistent ill will at something regarded as a wrong, insult, or injury. |
| rile | to anger. |
| roid | as in roid rage, angry and aggressive behaviour caused by the use of anabolic steroids. |
| shirtily | (Adv.) SHIRTY, irritable, annoyed. |
| shirtiness | the state of being shirty. |
| shirty | irritable, annoyed. |
| shrewish | ill-tempered. |
| shrewishly | (Adv.) SHREWISH, ill-tempered. |
| snappily | (Adv.) SNAPPY, bad-tempered. |
| snappy | bad-tempered. |
| snarkily | (Adv.) SNARKY, crotchety. |
| snarky | crotchety. |
| snarly | snarling. |
| snippily | (Adv.) SNIPPY, stingy, snappish. |
| snippiness | the state of being snippy, stingy. |
| snippy | stingy, snappish. |
| snit | a fit of rather childish temper, a tantrum. |
| snitchy | bad-tempered or irritable. |
| snitty | disagreeably ill-tempered. |
| snorty | inclined to snort; (coll.) ready to take offence. |
| soreheaded | irritable, grumpy. |
| soreheadedly | (Adv.) SOREHEADED, irritable, grumpy. |
| soreheadedness | the state of being soreheaded. |
| spiteful | full of spite. |
| spitefully | (Adv.) SPITEFUL, full of spite. |
| spleenish | affected with spleen; fretful. |
| spleeny | (Shakesp.) irritable; peevish. |
| splenative | (Obs.) hot-tempered. |
| splenetic | marked by bad temper, malevolence or spite (noun) one who is splenetic |
| splenetical | marked by bad temper, malevolence or spite. |
| splenetically | (Adv.) SPLENETICAL, marked by bad temper, malevolence or spite. |
| stomachy | easily angered, irritable. |
| stroppily | (Adv.) STROPPY, touchy, belligerent. |
| stroppiness | the state of being stroppy. |
| stroppy | touchy, belligerent. |
| stunkard | (Scots) sulky, sullen. |
| sturt | to vex; to annoy. |
| surlily | (Adv.) SURLY, bad-tempered. |
| surliness | the state of being surly. |
| surly | bad-tempered. |
| tantrum | a sudden fit of childish, uncontrolled bad temper or rage. |
| teachie | (Obs.) tetchy. |
| techily | (Adv.) TECHY, peevish. |
| techiness | the state of being techy. |
| techy | peevish, fretful. |
| testily | (Adv.) TESTY, irritable. |
| testiness | the state of being testy. |
| testy | irritable. |
| tetchily | (Adv.) TETCHY, peevish. |
| tetchiness | the state of being tetchy. |
| tetchy | peevish, fretful. |
| tooshie | (Aust. sl.) angry, upset. |
| touchily | (Adv.) TOUCHY, quick to take offence. |
| touchiness | the state of being touchy. |
| touchy | quick to take offence. |
| toustie | (Scott) irascible. |
| toutie | (Scots) petulant. |
| tracasserie | (Fr.) a state of disturbance or annoyance. |
| umbrage | the feeling of being offended; (verb) to shade, to offend. |
| unvexed | not vexed. |
| unvext | not vexed. |
| vex | to distress or annoy ) VEXT. |
| vexation | a cause of trouble. |
| vexatious | causing vexation. |
| vexatiously | (Adv.) VEXATIOUS, causing vexation. |
| vexatiousness | the state of being vexatious. |
| vexatory | causing vexation. |
| vexedly | (Adv.) VEXED, made angry. |
| vexedness | the state of being vexed. |
| vexer | one who vexes. |
| vexingly | (Adv.) VEXING, annoying. |
| vexingness | the state of being vexing. |
| wherrit | to worry, annoy. |
| wobbly | unsteady (noun) a fit of nerves or anger |
| woodness | anger; madness. |
| worrit | to worry; to annoy. |
| wrath | anger (verb, obs.) to make or become angry |
| wrathful | extremely angry. |
| wrathfully | (Adv.) WRATHFUL, extremely angry. |
| wrathfulness | the state of being wrathful. |
| wrathily | (Adv.) WRATHY, very angry. |
| wrathiness | the state of being wrathy, angry. |
| wrathless | free from anger or wrath. |
| wrathy | very angry. |
| wroth | wrathful; in commotion; stormy. No -S. |
| wrothful | extremely angry. |