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snippyadjective being or characterized by direct, brief, and potentially rude speech or mannersnippy remarks about the quality of the food at the church picnic abrupt, bluff, blunt, brusque(also brusk), crusty, curt, downright, short, short-spoken, unceremonious gruff, rough, snappishcandid, direct, forthright, foursquare, frank, free-spoken, open, outspoken, plain, plainspoken, point-blank, straightforward, straight-outartless, discourteous, disrespectful, impertinent, impolite, inconsiderate, insensitive, rude, tactless, undiplomaticbrief, closemouthed, laconic, reserved, reticent, terse, tight-lippedearnest, honest, sincerecoarse, crass, crude, low, uncouth, vulgar circuitous, mealymouthed civil, considerate, courteous, diplomatic, gracious, polite, politic, smooth, suave, tactfulloquacious, talkative, volublelong-winded, prolix, verbosecourtly, cultivated, gallant, genteel, polished, refined easily irritated or annoyedfeeling snippy after a long day of work choleric, crabby, cranky, cross, crotchety, fiery, grouchy, grumpy, irascible, irritable, peevish, perverse, pettish, petulant, prickly, quick-tempered, raspy, ratty, short-tempered, snappish, snappy, snarky, snippety, stuffy, testy, waspish bearish, bilious, cantankerous, cross-grained, curmudgeonly, disagreeable, dyspeptic, ill-humored, ill-natured, ill-tempered, off-color(or off-colored), ornery, querulous, snarly, surlyargumentative, bellicose, belligerent, combative, contentious, disputatious, fractious, fretful, pugnacious, quarrelsome, scrappy, truculenthuffy, pouty, sensitive, short, sulky, sullen, tetchy, thin-skinned, touchyhot-blooded, passionate out of humor, out of sorts affable, companionable, cordial, extroverted(also extraverted), friendly, genial, gregarious, outgoing, sociableagreeable, amiable, good-natured, good-tempered, sweet, well-disposedcarefree, easygoing, happy-go-lucky, relaxedforbearing, long-suffering, obliging, patient, stoic(or stoical), tolerant, uncomplaining, understanding self-consciously trying to present an appearance of grandeur or importanceI get tired of his snippy insistence that emulating the rich and famous is the only way to appear successful affected, grandiose, high-minded, highfalutin(also hifalutin), la-di-da(also la-de-da or lah-de-dah or lah-dee-dah or lah-di-dah), ostentatious, pompous, pretentious airy, grandiloquent, high-flown, high-sounding, high-toned, sententiousarrogant, bumptious, complacent, conceited, egoistic(also egoistical), egotistic(or egotistical), high-and-mighty, high-handed, high-hat, hoity-toity, imperious, important, overweening, presumptuous, prideful, proud, self-asserting, self-assertive, self-centered, self-complacent, self-conceited, self-important, self-obsessed, self-pleased, self-satisfied, smug, uppity, vain, vaingloriousself-aggrandizing, self-dramatizing, self-glorifying, self-promotingcavalier, disdainful, haughty, lordly, snobbish, snobby, stuck-up, supercilious, superiorconfident, self-assured, self-confident, sureboastful, braggart, braggingaggressive, assertive, audacious, bold, brassy, cheeky, cocky, forward, impudent, insolent, rudeflamboyant, flashy, flaunting, garish, gaudy, glitzy, showy, splashy modest, unpretentious demure, down-to-earth, homely, humble, lowly, meek, retiring, unassertive, unassumingbashful, diffident, mousy(or mousey), overmodest, passive, quiet, reserved, shy, timid ca. 1848 |