Word Meanings - TIFFISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Inclined to tiffs; peevish; petulant.

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• PEEVISH
  1. Habitually fretful; easily vexed or fretted; hard to please; apt to complain; querulous; petulant. "Her peevish babe." Wordsworth. She is peevish, sullen, froward. Shak. 2. Expressing fretfulness and discontent, or unjustifiable dissatisfaction;
• INCLINING
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• INCLINED
  Making an angle with some line or plane; -- said of a line or plane. (more info) 1. Having a leaning or tendency towards, or away from, a thing; disposed or moved by wish, desire, or judgment; as, a man inclined to virtue. "Each pensively
• PEEVISHLY
  In a peevish manner. Shak.
• PEEVISHNESS
  The quality of being peevish; disposition to murmur; sourness of temper. Syn. -- See Petulance.
• INCLINATORY
  Having the quality of leaning or inclining; as, the inclinatory needle. -- In*clin"a*to*ri*ly, adv. Sir T. Browne.
• PETULANT
  attacks upon, from a lost dim. of petere to fall upon, to attack: cf. 1. Forward; pert; insolent; wanton. Burton. 2. Capriciously fretful; characterized by ill-natured freakishness; irritable. "Petulant moods." Macaulay. Syn. -- Irritable;
• INCLINATION
  The angle made by two lines or planes; as, the inclination of the plane of the earth's equator to the plane of the ecliptic is about 23º 28'; the inclination of two rays of light. 5. A leaning or tendency of the mind, feelings, preferences, or
• INCLINNOMETER
  An apparatus to determine the inclination of the earth's magnetic force to the plane of the horizon; -- called also inclination compass, and dip circle.
• PETULANTLY
  In a petulant manner.
• INCLINABLENESS
  The state or quality of being inclinable; inclination.
• INCLINER
  One who, or that which, inclines; specifically, an inclined dial.
• INCLINABLE
  1. Leaning; tending. Likely and inclinable to fall. Bentley. 2. Having a propensity of will or feeling; leaning in disposition; disposed; propense; as, a mind inclinable to truth. Whatsoever other sins he may be inclinable to. South.
• INCLINE
  L. inclinare; pref. in- in + clinare to bend, incline; akin to E. 1. To deviate from a line, direction, or course, toward an object; to lean; to tend; as, converging lines incline toward each other; a road inclines to the north or south. 2. Fig.:
• DISINCLINE
  To incline away the affections of; to excite a slight aversion in; to indispose; to make unwilling; to alienate. Careful . . . to disincline them from any reverence or affection to the Queen. Clarendon. To social scenes by nature disinclined.
• DISINCLINATION
  The state of being disinclined; want of propensity, desire, or affection; slight aversion or dislike; indisposition. Disappointment gave him a disinclination to the fair sex. Arbuthnot. Having a disinclination to books or business. Guardian. Syn.
• MISINCLINE
  To cause to have a wrong inclination or tendency; to affect wrongly.