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Definition/Meaning

(adjective)

condescendingly sharp, irritated;

e.g. It's easy to get snippy once you're frustrated.

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Similar Words

Abrupt

Affected

Bluff

Blunt

Brooding

Brusque

Caddish

Choleric

Crabby

Cranky

Cross

Cross-grained

Crotchety

Crusty

Curt

Downright

Fiery

Fretful

Grandiose

Grouchy

Grumpy

Hifalutin

High-minded

High-toned

Highfalutin

Hoity-toity

Hypersensitive

Incisive

Irascible

Irritable

La-di-da

Lippy

Ostentatious

Oversensitive

Peevish

Perverse

Petulant

Point-blank

Pompous

Pretentious

Prickly

Quick-tempered

Raspy

Ratty

Self-aggrandizing

Self-dramatizing

Sharp-tongued

Short

Short-tempered

Snappish

Snappy

Snarky

Snippety

Spiky

Stroppy

Stuffy

Supersensitive

Tempered

Testy

Tongue-in-cheek

Unceremonious

Wasp

Waspish

Well-turned

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Opposite Words

Affable

Agreeable

Amiable

Bashful

Carefree

Circuitous

Civil

Companionable

Considerate

Cordial

Courteous

Courtly

Cultivated

Demure

Diffident

Diffuse

Diplomatic

Down-to-earth

Easygoing

Extroverted

Friendly

Gallant

Garrulous

Good-natured

Good-tempered

Gracious

Gregarious

Happy-go-lucky

Homely

Hospitable

Humble

Long-suffering

Long-winded

Loquacious

Lowly

Meek

Mousy

Obliging

Outgoing

Overmodest

Passive

Patient

Polished

Politic

Prolix

Quiet

Rambling

Refined

Relaxed

Reserved

Retiring

Shy

Smooth

Sociable

Stoic

Suave

Sweet

Tactful

Talkative

Timid

Tolerant

Unassertive

Unassuming

Uncomplaining

Understanding

Verbose

Voluble

Well-disposed

Wordy

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Related Words

Acerb

Acerbic

Acid

Acidic

Acidulous

Acrid

Aggressive

Airy

Argumentative

Arrogant

Artless

Assertive

Audacious

Barbed

Bearish

Bellicose

Belligerent

Bilious

Biting

Bloody-minded

Bold

Braggart

Brassy

Brief

Bumptious

Candid

Cantankerous

Capsule

Caustic

Cavalier

Cheeky

Closemouthed

Cocky

Combative

Compact

Compendious

Complacent

Conceited

Concise

Confident

Contentious

Corrosive

Crabby

Cranky

Crass

Crisp

Cross-grained

Curt

Cutting

Direct

Disagreeable

Discourteous

Disdainful

Disputatious

Earnest

Egotistical

Elliptical

Flamboyant

Flashy

Forthright

Forward

Foursquare

Fractious

Frank

Free-spoken

Fretful

Fussy

Garish

Gaudy

Glum

Grouchy

Gruff

Grumpy

Haughty

High-flown

High-handed

High-hat

High-sounding

High-toned

Hoity-toity

Honest

Hot-blooded

Huffy

Ill-bred

Ill-humored

Ill-mannered

Ill-natured

Ill-tempered

Imperious

Impertinent

Impolite

Important

Impudent

Inconsiderate

Insensitive

Insolent

Laconic

Lordly

Low

Mannered

Monosyllabic

Moody

Mordant

Off-color

Open

Ornery

Outspoken

Overweening

Passionate

Pithy

Plain

Plainspoken

Point-blank

Pouty

Presumptuous

Prideful

Proud

Pugnacious

Pungent

Quarrelsome

Querulous

Reserved

Reticent

Rough

Rude

Sarcastic

Sardonic

Satiric

Scalding

Scathing

Self-aggrandizing

Self-asserting

Self-assertive

Self-assured

Self-centered

Self-dramatizing

Self-glorifying

Self-important

Self-obsessed

Self-satisfied

Sensitive

Sententious

Sharp

Short

Showy

Sincere

Smart aleck

Smart-mouthed

Smug

Snappish

Snarky

Snobbish

Snobby

Splashy

Splenetic

Straight-out

Straightforward

Stuck-up

Succinct

Sulky

Sullen

Summary

Supercilious

Superior

Sure

Surly

Tactless

Tart

Temperamental

Tempered

Terse

Tetchy

Thin-skinned

Thoughtless

Thumbnail

Ticklish

Tight-lipped

Touchy

Truculent

Uncalled-for

Uncivil

Uncouth

Undiplomatic

Ungracious

Unhandsome

Unmannered

Unmannerly

Uppity

Vain

Vainglorious

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