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querulous

/kwer-uh-luhs, kwer-yuh-/US // ˈkwɛr ə ləs, ˈkwɛr yə- //UK // (ˈkwɛrʊləs, ˈkwɛrjʊ-) //

哓哓不休,哓哓不休的,哓哓不绝,哓哓不已

Related Words

cantankerous气喘吁吁,气喘吁吁的,脾气暴躁的人,脾气暴躁的captious迷人的,掳掠,任性,束手就擒carping争吵,捣乱,捣蛋,跳舞censorious审查,审查者,审查员,审查的complaining抱怨,抱怨声,埋怨,投诉critical关键,关键的,重要的,重要cross十字架,十字,十字路口,十字形crying哭泣,哭声,哭了,啼哭discontented不满的,不满的情绪,不满的人,不满情绪dissatisfied不满意,不满,不满意的,不满的edgy紧张的,紧张,聪明的,烦人fault-finding找茬,寻错,找错,寻疵fretful烦躁不安的,烦躁不安,焦躁不安,焦躁不安的grumbling怨声载道,埋怨,抱怨声,抱怨irritable烦躁,烦躁不安,烦躁的,易怒lamenting哀叹,悲叹,悲哀的是,悲哀petulant娇气,娇气的,娇气的人,娇惯plaintive凄惨的,哀怨的,朴素的,凄惨snappy蹩脚的,爽快的,爽快,蹩脚sour酸性的,酸溜溜的,酸味的,酸性

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : full of complaints; complaining.
    • : characterized by or uttered in complaint; peevish: a querulous tone; constant querulous reminders of things to be done.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.grouchy, hard to please
Synonyms
bearish看跌,看跌的,看跌期权,看衰bemoaning哀叹,哀怨,抱怨,哀叹声cantankerous气喘吁吁,气喘吁吁的,脾气暴躁的人,脾气暴躁的captious迷人的,掳掠,任性,束手就擒carping争吵,捣乱,捣蛋,跳舞censorious审查,审查者,审查员,审查的complaining抱怨,抱怨声,埋怨,投诉critical关键,关键的,重要的,重要cross十字架,十字,十字路口,十字形crying哭泣,哭声,哭了,啼哭deploring令人痛心的是,遗憾的是,痛惜,痛心疾首discontented不满的,不满的情绪,不满的人,不满情绪dissatisfied不满意,不满,不满意的,不满的edgy紧张的,紧张,聪明的,烦人fault-finding找茬,寻错,找错,寻疵fretful烦躁不安的,烦躁不安,焦躁不安,焦躁不安的grousing抱怨,哼哼唧唧,牢骚,抱怨的grumbling怨声载道,埋怨,抱怨声,抱怨grumbly怨气冲天,怨恨的,怨天尤人,怨天尤人的huffy irascible脾气暴躁的人,怒气冲冲的,怒气冲冲,怒气冲冲地irritable烦躁,烦躁不安,烦躁的,易怒lamenting哀叹,悲叹,悲哀的是,悲哀out of sorts peevish脾气暴躁,脾气暴躁的人,脾气暴躁不安,脾气暴躁的petulant娇气,娇气的,娇气的人,娇惯plaintive凄惨的,哀怨的,朴素的,凄惨scrappy潦倒的人,潦倒的,潦草的,潦倒snappy蹩脚的,爽快的,爽快,蹩脚sour酸性的,酸溜溜的,酸味的,酸性testy诙谐,狡猾的,暴躁,狡猾的人thin-skinned touchyuptight拘谨,拘谨的,拘束,拘谨的人wailing哭哭啼啼,哀号,哭声,啼哭waspish卑鄙小人,卑鄙的人,卑鄙的,卑鄙无耻waspy浪费,浪费了,浪费精力,浪费资源whimpering呜呜咽咽,呜呜咽咽的,呜呜声,呜呜呜whining抱怨,唧唧歪歪,牢骚满腹,抱怨声whiny抱怨的,发牢骚的,唧唧歪歪,唧唧歪歪的

Examples

  • The querulous, interconnected pamphlets printed in seventeenth-century Europe prefigure the culture of modern blogging.

  • Calasso reconstruction is, in Mounts' judgment, a superbly ambitious, quirky, querulous, lyrical, and finally persuasive essay.

  • When the feeble, querulous mother died, Romarino was fifteen years of age.

  • But, though Portland was an unreasonable and querulous friend, he was a most faithful and zealous minister.

  • This consists in extending the suffrage among the querulous and suffering part of the people.

  • The human sweetness in him was half dried up, and a misanthropy, so new and alien to him, made him querulous and captious.

  • Mrs Beazeley, the housekeeper, has become inert and querulous from rheumatism and the burden of added years.

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