- testiness
- noun see testy
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
testiness
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Testiness — Tes ti*ness, n. The quality or state of being testy; fretfulness; petulance. [1913 Webster] Testiness is a disposition or aptness to be angry. Locke. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
testiness — testy ► ADJECTIVE ▪ easily irritated; irritable. DERIVATIVES testily adverb testiness noun. ORIGIN originally in the sense «headstrong, impetuous»: from Old French teste head … English terms dictionary
testiness — See testily. * * * … Universalium
testiness — noun The state or quality of being testy … Wiktionary
testiness — Synonyms and related words: bearishness, bitchiness, cantankerousness, churlishness, crabbedness, crankiness, crossness, crustiness, cussedness, disagreeability, excitability, fractiousness, huffiness, huffishness, irascibility, irritability,… … Moby Thesaurus
testiness — (Roget s IV) n. Syn. touchiness, irritability, petulance, asperity; see annoyance 1 … English dictionary for students
testiness — tes·ti·ness || testɪnɪs n. anger, irritability, nervousness … English contemporary dictionary
testiness — n. Fretfulness, peevishness, petulance, irascibility, irritability, hastiness, techiness, touchiness … New dictionary of synonyms
testiness — n irritability, petulance, snappishness, irascibility, touchiness, tetchiness, prickliness; peevishness, waspishness, raspiness, fretfulness, edginess, nervousness; excitability, fieriness, inflammability; grouchiness, crankiness, crabbedness,… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
testiness — tes·ti·ness … English syllables
