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SNAPPISHNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does snappishness mean? 

SNAPPISHNESS (noun)
  The noun SNAPPISHNESS has 1 sense:

1. a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled angerplay

  Familiarity information: SNAPPISHNESS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SNAPPISHNESS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

biliousness; irritability; peevishness; pettishness; snappishness; surliness; temper

Context example:

his temper was well known to all his employees

Hypernyms ("snappishness" is a kind of...):

ill nature (a disagreeable, irritable, or malevolent disposition)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "snappishness"):

querulousness (the quality of being given to complaining)

Derivation:

snappish (apt to speak irritably)


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