Synonyms for grumpy
ˈgrʌm pigrumpy

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1. grumpyadjective

   Synonyms:
   grouchy

2. grumpyadjective

   Unhappy and/or irritable, a word which is particularly applied to babies and children or adults who are acting childishly.

   Synonyms:
   grouchy

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1. crabbed, crabby, cross, fussy, grouchy, grumpy, bad-tempered, ill-temperedadjective

   annoyed and irritable

   Synonyms:
   transversal, picky, particular, bad-tempered, busy, cross(a), transverse, cross, finicky, grouchy, finical, crabby, crabbed, fussy, thwartwise, ill-tempered

   Antonyms:
   good-natured

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1. curmudgeonadjective

   irritable, bad - tempered

   grandpa is grumpy, his boss just fired him.

   Submitted by dacringett on January 21, 2022  

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1. grumpyadjective

   Synonyms:
   surly, disgruntled, grouty, irritable, sullen

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1. List of paraphrases for "grumpy":

   grouchy, cranky, fussy

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1. Jane Sanders:

   I tell him all the time, you have to bring it back to the hope at the end, but no, he is not grumpy really, just except when the media doesn't pay attention.

2. Roger Stone:

   Our texts are the late night bickering of two grumpy political veterans, who have known each other for years. They are friendly as well as nasty, ribald, vicious, inconsistent humorous and vile.

3. Michael Bennet:

   People are really, really grumpy. I'm grumpy too. I'm not grumpy about White House not being involved on the political side of things. I'm grumpy because we haven't been able to pass legislation that I think would be good for the country, and that we should be able to tell people about so that we can hold off a beginning of a return to Donald Trump, donald Trump'd be a lot better off and we would be having Donald Trump spend Donald Trump time out in the country talking to people than stuck in Washington talking to people about legislating.

4. William Schaffner:

   Some of us in the scientific community here in the US have been a little surprised at the sprightly competitiveness of some of the comments from our colleagues at Oxford. We don't usually see that in public pronouncements, we've been grumpy with our national political leaders about providing inaccurate information, and we should hold scientific leaders to those same standards.

5. Elizabeth Somer:

   If you're eating bread, reach for the whole wheat over the white, since it also stabilizes blood sugar levels, refined grains found in white bread can send you on a blood sugar roller coaster, leaving you jittery, grumpy and hungry.