| No. | Item | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | acerbity | sharp bitterness of tone |
| 2. | acrimony | bitterness in manner or speech |
| 3. | aggravation | annoyed frustration or irritation |
| 4. | annoyance | mild anger or irritation |
| 5. | asperity | harshness of temper or tone |
| 6. | bad attitude | hostile, irritable manner |
| 7. | bad disposition | habitually irritable nature |
| 8. | bad humor | irritable, unpleasant mood |
| 9. | bad mood | irritable emotional state |
| 10. | bad temper | habitual irritability or anger |
| 11. | bile | ill temper; bitterness |
| 12. | captiousness | fault-finding irritability |
| 13. | carping | petty fault-finding complaint |
| 14. | choler | irritable anger |
| 15. | complainingness | habit of peevish complaint |
| 16. | contrariness | habit of opposing peevishly |
| 17. | crabbiness | grouchy irritability |
| 18. | crabby mood | grouchy, irritable state |
| 19. | cross mood | bad-tempered state |
| 20. | cross moodiness | habitual irritable moodiness |
| 21. | crossness | bad-tempered irritability |
| 22. | difficultness | hard-to-please irritability |
| 23. | discontent | dissatisfied, irritable unhappiness |
| 24. | disgruntlement | sullen dissatisfaction |
| 25. | displeasure | annoyed dissatisfaction |
| 26. | dudgeon | resentful ill humor |
| 27. | edginess | tense irritability |
| 28. | exasperation | intense irritation |
| 29. | fault-finding | habitual critical irritability |
| 30. | fractious temper | irritable, unruly disposition |
| 31. | fractiousness | irritable unruliness |
| 32. | fret | state of worried irritation |
| 33. | fretful temper | restlessly irritable disposition |
| 34. | fretfulness | restless irritability |
| 35. | fussiness | overly fussy irritability |
| 36. | grouchiness | habitual grumpy irritability |
| 37. | grumpiness | sullen bad temper |
| 38. | grumpy mood | sullen, irritable state |
| 39. | hotheadedness | quick, angry temper |
| 40. | huff | fit of offended annoyance |
| 41. | huffiness | touchy, offended temper |
| 42. | huffishness | easily offended temper |
| 43. | ill disposition | bad-tempered nature |
| 44. | ill humor | bad mood; irritability |
| 45. | ill mood | unpleasant, irritable state |
| 46. | ill nature | unkind, bad-tempered disposition |
| 47. | ill temper | bad-tempered mood or disposition |
| 48. | irascibility | readiness to become angry |
| 49. | irritability | tendency to be easily annoyed |
| 50. | irritable mood | easily annoyed state |
| 51. | irritable temper | easily annoyed disposition |
| 52. | malcontent | discontented, complaining temper |
| 53. | miff | slight offended annoyance |
| 54. | moodiness | changeable, sullen temper |
| 55. | moroseness | gloomy, ill-tempered sullenness |
| 56. | nastiness | mean, unpleasant temper |
| 57. | nerviness | bold, touchy attitude |
| 58. | nippiness | sharp, irritable manner |
| 59. | offishness | cold, touchy reserve |
| 60. | orneryness | stubborn, bad-tempered nature |
| 61. | oversensitivity | excessive touchiness |
| 62. | peevish mood | childishly irritable state |
| 63. | peevish temper | childishly irritable disposition |
| 64. | peevishness | irritable, childish bad temper |
| 65. | pepperiness | spirited irritability |
| 66. | pet | fit of sulky annoyance |
| 67. | pettish mood | sulky, touchy state |
| 68. | pettish temper | sulky, childish irritability |
| 69. | pettishness | sulky irritability; childish temper |
| 70. | piquishness | touchy, peevish temper |
| 71. | prickliness | easily offended irritability |
| 72. | querulous temper | complaining, peevish disposition |
| 73. | querulousness | complaining, peevish irritability |
| 74. | quick temper | readiness to anger |
| 75. | ruffled temper | easily upset mood |
| 76. | short temper | quickness to anger |
| 77. | snappiness | tendency to answer sharply |
| 78. | snappishness | sharp, irritable temper |
| 79. | snarkiness | sharp, irritable sarcasm |
| 80. | snit | petty fit of irritation |
| 81. | sour temper | habitually unpleasant mood |
| 82. | spleen | ill temper; spitefulness |
| 83. | sulk | period of resentful silence |
| 84. | sulkiness | gloomy, resentful bad temper |
| 85. | surliness | bad-tempered rudeness |
| 86. | tantrum | angry childish outburst |
| 87. | temperiness | irritable disposition |
| 88. | testiness | easily annoyed irritability |
| 89. | testy mood | easily annoyed state |
| 90. | tetchiness | irritable touchiness |
| 91. | the hump | state of offended sulkiness |
| 92. | touchiness | oversensitive irritability |
| 93. | touchy disposition | easily offended temperament |
| 94. | touchy mood | easily offended state |
| 95. | touchy temper | easily offended disposition |
| 96. | unpleasantness | bad-tempered disagreeableness |
| 97. | vexation | annoyed frustration |
| 98. | vinegar | sharp, sour temper |
| 99. | waspishness | sharp, irritable temper |
| 100. | wrathfulness | angry, irritable temper |