noun
1. an irritable petulant feeling
• Syn: ↑irritability, ↑crossness, ↑fretfulness, ↑peevishness, ↑petulance, ↑choler
• Derivationally related forms: ↑petulant (for: ↑petulance), ↑peevish (for: ↑peevishness), ↑fussy, ↑fretful (for: ↑fretfulness), ↑irritable (for: ↑irritability)
• Hypernyms: ↑ill humor, ↑ill humour, ↑distemper
• Hyponyms: ↑testiness, ↑touchiness, ↑tetchiness, ↑pet
2. unnecessary elaborateness in details
• Derivationally related forms: ↑fussy
• Hypernyms: ↑ornateness, ↑elaborateness
Useful english dictionary. 2012.