Querulous \Quer"u*lous\, a. [L. querulus and querulosus, fr.
queri to complain. Cf. Cry, v., Quarrel a brawl,
Quarrelous.]
1. Given to quarreling; quarrelsome. [Obs.] --land.
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2. Apt to find fault; habitually complaining; disposed to
murmur; as, a querulous man or people.
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Enmity can hardly be more annoying that querulous,
jealous, exacting fondness. --Macaulay.
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3. Expressing complaint; fretful; whining; as, a querulous
tone of voice.
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Syn: Complaining; bewailing; lamenting; whining; mourning;
murmuring; discontented; dissatisfied.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
querulous
adj : habitually complaining; "a whining child" [syn: fretful, whiney,
whining(a), whiny]
WordNet (r) 2.0
103 Moby Thesaurus words for "querulous":
Jeremianic, annoyed, bad-tempered, beefing, bellyaching, bemoaning,
bitching, blubbering, cantankerous, carping, catty, censorious,
choleric, complaining, complaintful, crabbing, crabby, cranky,
critical, criticizing, croaking, cross, crotchety, crusty, crying,
disappointed, discontented, disgruntled, displeased, dissatisfied,
dyspeptic, envious, faultfinding, finical, finicky, fractious,
fretful, fussy, griping, grouchy, grousing, growling, grumbling,
grumpy, howling, huffy, hypercritical, ill-humored, ill-natured,
ill-tempered, irascible, irritable, irritated, lamenting,
lamentive, malcontent, malcontented, moanful, mournful, murmuring,
muttering, nagging, naggy, out of humor, peevish, perverse,
pettish, petulant, piqued, plaintive, plangent, puling,
quarrelsome, querulant, rebellious, resentful, restive, restless,
shrewish, snappish, sorrowful, sour, splenetic, sulky, testy,
touchy, ululant, unaccepting, unaccommodating, uneasy, unfulfilled,
ungratified, unhappy, unsatisfied, vixenish, vixenly, wailful,
wailing, waspish, weeping, whimpering, whining, whiny
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
fretful, whiney, whining(a), whiny
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