shrewish

shrewish
Synonyms and related words:
aggressive, bellicose, belligerent, beyond control, bickering, breachy, catty, combative, contumacious, defiant, disputatious, divisive, eristic, factional, factious, fractious, fretful, incorrigible, indocile, indomitable, insuppressible, intractable, irascible, irrepressible, irritable, litigious, nagging, naggy, obstreperous, out of hand, partisan, peevish, pettish, petulant, polarizing, polemic, pugnacious, quarrelsome, querulous, recalcitrant, refractory, resentful, resistant, resisting, restive, unbiddable, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unmalleable, unmanageable, unmoldable, unruly, unsubmissive, vixenish, vixenly, wild, wrangling

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  • Shrewish — Shrew ish, a. having the qualities of a shrew; having a scolding disposition; froward; peevish. [1913 Webster] My wife is shrewish when I keep not hours. Shak. [1913 Webster] {Shrew ish*ly}, adv. {Shrew ish*ness}, n. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • shrewish — index fractious, petulant, querulous Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • shrewish — late 14c., “wicked, malignant,” from SHREW (Cf. shrew) + ISH (Cf. ish). Of women, from 1560s. Related: Shrewishly; shrewishness …   Etymology dictionary

  • shrewish — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ (of a woman) bad tempered or nagging. DERIVATIVES shrewishly adverb shrewishness noun …   English terms dictionary

  • shrewish — [shro͞o′ish] adj. like a shrew in disposition; evil tempered shrewishly adv. shrewishness n …   English World dictionary

  • shrewish — shrew|ish [ˈʃru:ıʃ] adj old use a shrewish woman is one who always argues and disagrees with people …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • shrewish — adjective old use a shrewish woman is one who always argues and disagrees with people …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • shrewish — adjective continually complaining or faultfinding (Freq. 1) a shrewish wife nagging parents • Syn: ↑nagging • Similar to: ↑ill natured • Derivationally related forms: ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

  • shrewish nagging vixenish — Ill natured Ill na tured, a. 1. Of habitual bad temper; having an unpleasant disposition; surly; disagreeable; cross; peevish; fractious; crabbed; of people; as, an ill natured person; an ill natured disagreeable old man. Opposite of {good… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • shrewish — adjective Date: 1565 ill natured, intractable • shrewishly adverb • shrewishness noun …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • shrewish — shrewishly, adv. shrewishness, n. /shrooh ish/, adj. having the disposition of a shrew. [1325 75; ME; see SHREW1, ISH1] * * * …   Universalium

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