Petulant vs Momentum - What's the difference?
petulant | momentum |
childishly irritable
(obsolete) forward; pert; insolent; wanton.
(physics) (of a body in motion) The tendency of a body to maintain its inertial motion; the product of its mass and velocity.
The impetus, either of a body in motion, or of an idea or course of events. (i.e: a moment)
* 1843, Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Old Apple Dealer", in Mosses from an Old Manse
* 1882, Thomas Hardy, Two on a Tower
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As an adjective petulant
is exuberant, lively.As a noun momentum is
(physics) (of a body in motion) the tendency of a body to maintain its inertial motion; the product of its mass and velocity.petulant
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Lack of sleep is causing Dave's recent petulant behavior.
- (Burton)
Synonyms
* huffy * snappish * irritable * grouchy * bad-tempered * ill-tempered * crabbyAntonyms
* easygoingmomentum
English
(wikipedia momentum)Noun
(en-noun)- The travellers swarm forth from the cars. All are full of the momentum which they have caught from their mode of conveyance.
- Their intention to become husband and wife, at first halting and timorous, had accumulated momentum with the lapse of hours, till it now bore down every obstacle in its course.