Shrewish

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Shrewish \Shrew"ish\, a.
     having the qualities of a shrew; having a scolding
     disposition; froward; peevish.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           My wife is shrewish when I keep not hours. --Shak.


     [1913 Webster] -- {Shrew"ish*ly}, adv. -- {Shrew"ish*ness},
     n.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  shrewish
       adj : continually complaining or faultfinding; "a shrewish wife";
             "nagging parents" [syn: {nagging}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  57 Moby Thesaurus words for "shrewish":
     aggressive, bellicose, belligerent, beyond control, bickering,
     breachy, catty, combative, contumacious, defiant, disputatious,
     divisive, eristic, factional, factious, fractious, fretful,
     incorrigible, indocile, indomitable, insuppressible, intractable,
     irascible, irrepressible, irritable, litigious, nagging, naggy,
     obstreperous, out of hand, partisan, peevish, pettish, petulant,
     polarizing, polemic, pugnacious, quarrelsome, querulous,
     recalcitrant, refractory, resentful, resistant, resisting, restive,
     unbiddable, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unmalleable,
     unmanageable, unmoldable, unruly, unsubmissive, vixenish, vixenly,
     wild, wrangling