Peevish vs Anger - What's the difference?
peevish | anger |
Constantly complaining; fretful, whining.
* , King Henry V , act 3, scene 7:
* 1813 , , Pride and Prejudice , ch. 41:
* 1917 , , "The Mixer" in The Man With Two Left Feet and Other Stories :
A strong feeling of displeasure, hostility or antagonism towards someone or something, usually combined with an urge to harm.
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, title= (obsolete) Pain or stinging.
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, passage=It heals the Wounds that Sin hath made; and takes away the Anger of the Sore;
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To cause such a feeling of antagonism.
To become angry.
As an adjective peevish
is constantly complaining; fretful, whining.As a noun anger is
remorse, regret.peevish
English
Alternative forms
* (l), (l) (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- Orleans: What a wretched and peevish fellow is this king of England, to mope with his fat-brained followers so far out of his knowledge!
- [T]he luckless Kitty continued in the parlour repining at her fate in terms as unreasonable as her accent was peevish .
- At first he was quite peevish . "What's the idea," he said, "coming and spoiling a man's beauty-sleep? Get out."
Derived terms
* peevishly * peevishnessanger
English
(wikipedia anger)Noun
Our banks are out of control, passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. When a series of bank failures made this impossible, there was widespread anger , leading to the public humiliation of symbolic figures.}}
Mensa mystica, page=322, year_published=1717
- I made the experiment, setting the moxa where the greatest anger and soreness still continued.
Synonyms
* (strong feeling of antagonism) * See alsoDerived terms
() * angerful * angerless * angry * anger management * in angerVerb
(en verb)- Don't anger me.
- You anger too easily.